What’s is the Dodge meme?
Probably a bit like Dr Frankenstein, watching his monster lurch down the hill towards the village.
I can’t find it now but Kabosu’s person wasn’t happy about it.
I think the term “Doge” existed separately to the picture of Kabosu, but then was attached to it and popularised.
Granted, the intention of the creator of dogecoin was likely related to the meme anyway. Like a lot of people for example would write something like “Abide With Me piano cover” or “Danny Boy piano cover” when the tune to those songs are Eventide and Londonderry Air. Abide With Me and Danny Boy are texts which quickly got associated with the tune.
Elon just seems like the most out of touch person on the planet.
“Americans love memes and dogs! I’ll name my government demolition squad after a meme dog! They’ll love it!”
“Why don’t they love it?”
“Maybe if I had a chainsaw…” 🤔
Soon: “Maybe if I flew in a german history expert in and rebuilt Auschwitz here…”
He doesn’t even need to fly them in, just look at the people he’s putting in charge.
Or for a scam meme coin.
It was made by two software engineers as a joke parodying cryptocurrencies in 2013. One of them called musk a self-absorbed grifter.
This, it was explicitly supposed to be a joke coin. The fact that it trades fairly consistently (if at low value) is kind of an abberation
You’re always going to get this effect.
The Church of Subgenius started as a religious parody. There are people who take it far more seriously than it was originally intended.
I had a friend who got into it and would get emotionally upset when I’d make fun of JR Bob Dobbs. Which was depressing, because I felt that was the whole point to Dobbs.
I see the same thing in Doge. Starts as a joke. Some people buy into it, because funny. Then people buy into it because they miss the point of the joke, or because what started as a joke becomes dogma.
I had a friend who got into it and would get emotionally upset when I’d make fun of JR Bob Dobbs. Which was depressing, because I felt that was the whole point to Dobbs.
I’ve been a member of the Church for more than ten years and take it more seriously than I should. (I paid my $30 to Bobb when it was $30. Can’t wait for my flying pleasure saucer, already planned for where I’m turning my lasers.)
What the fuck.
Did they not participate in any form of Subgenius activity, consume any form of Subgenius art? Did they not listen to the Hour of Slack?
Like, listen to the Agent and Mr. Dobbs. Listen to the way we talk about Connie. Listen to the story about the Subgenius who gets lost on their way to to the Devival and ends up getting their corpse gang banged by wolves, dogs and cops. How on earth would you think that you are supposed to be reverent when talking about Bob?
Sounds like scientology.
When it was new it had minor charm-- the idea it was cheap and there were trillions of coins in circulation made it so penny-ante that people could have fun with it, and experiment with the tech on a tiny budget.
I played a little with it back in 2014 or so. You could buy some by interacting with a Reddit bot, and I mined a few coins on a GTX 660 (midrange gaming card for the day.
I recall sending 5000 coins to a local dogs-rescue that tried to join on the novelty, and paying for some used RAM in part with it.
By then BTC was basically unplayable without a rack of ASICs and it was already moving past the “currency” phase straight to “speculative asset”.
