A typo, a dog, and a frog
I looked into the origins of the names of the three major memes:
$DOGE : The typo gets corrected.
In 2013, programmers wanted to make a coin to mock the crypto world. One Dog’s hand slipped and it became “Doge.”
Normal people: fix it back.
He: won’t change it—what’s wrong is funnier.
As a result, that “typo” reached a market cap of tens of billions.
So, everyone—don’t obsess over details. A slip of the hand can still open up a whole new sky.
$SHIB : An overt attempt to cash in on the dog.
When DOGE went viral, everyone knew that dog was a Shiba Inu.
So someone slapped their forehead and said: just call it “Shiba Inu!”
SHIB—an abbreviation for Shiba Inu—cash-in done without any disguise.
Most infuriating of all: it really managed to cash in to the point that by 2021 its market cap entered the top 10.
Lesson learned: copying answers in an exam isn’t shameful—getting full marks by copying is real ability.
$PEPE : The saddest main character.
Matt Furie drew a happy frog. It became popular as a meme after 4chan turned it into an image, and then it was clamped down on for misuse and the original author was so angry that in the comic he drew Pepe as dead—literally “killing” his own child.
Then in 2023, this frog came back as a coin again and its market cap hit billions.
Matt Furie: Didn’t I bury a frog? Why did it appreciate in value?
Summary: Three naming rules for meme coins:
The end of a typo is classic,
The end of riding a hot trend is a titan,
The end of a “dead” one is a resurrection coin.
I looked into the origins of the names of the three major memes:
$DOGE : The typo gets corrected.
In 2013, programmers wanted to make a coin to mock the crypto world. One Dog’s hand slipped and it became “Doge.”
Normal people: fix it back.
He: won’t change it—what’s wrong is funnier.
As a result, that “typo” reached a market cap of tens of billions.
So, everyone—don’t obsess over details. A slip of the hand can still open up a whole new sky.
$SHIB : An overt attempt to cash in on the dog.
When DOGE went viral, everyone knew that dog was a Shiba Inu.
So someone slapped their forehead and said: just call it “Shiba Inu!”
SHIB—an abbreviation for Shiba Inu—cash-in done without any disguise.
Most infuriating of all: it really managed to cash in to the point that by 2021 its market cap entered the top 10.
Lesson learned: copying answers in an exam isn’t shameful—getting full marks by copying is real ability.
$PEPE : The saddest main character.
Matt Furie drew a happy frog. It became popular as a meme after 4chan turned it into an image, and then it was clamped down on for misuse and the original author was so angry that in the comic he drew Pepe as dead—literally “killing” his own child.
Then in 2023, this frog came back as a coin again and its market cap hit billions.
Matt Furie: Didn’t I bury a frog? Why did it appreciate in value?
Summary: Three naming rules for meme coins:
The end of a typo is classic,
The end of riding a hot trend is a titan,
The end of a “dead” one is a resurrection coin.