Last night, when I was looking for information related to the Pepe universe, I found some interesting things that made me think more about memes.
Meme is a unit of cultural information spread through imitation. The word meme (derived from the Greek mimema, meaning "imitation") was proposed by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his book "The Selfish Gene" in 1976.
Three years later, on August 14, 1979, cartoonist Matt Furie, best known for creating Pepe the Frog, was born.
In 2005, Matt Furie published the first edition of the "Boy's Club" series. In the same year, Kabosu, the prototype of Dogecoin, was born in Japan. In 2013, two engineers decided to create a payment system as a joke to mock the crazy speculation on cryptocurrencies at the time. It is considered the first "meme coin", more specifically the first "Dogecoin", which also laid the groundwork for the subsequent "Frog Dog War".
Boy's Club is a comic book about four friends who are in their early twenties, living a life of hedonism and aimlessness after graduating from college. They include the party animal Landwolf, the prankster Andy, the dancer Brett, and the super calm frog Pepe.
Through a twisted series of events, it eventually became the mascot of the alt-right; in 2015, the meme was adopted by the alt-right to support Trump, and Trump and his son also used the PEPE emoticon on Twitter, which provided a huge boost to their 2016 presidential campaign, and PEPE also gained huge exposure.
Meme coins are essentially about capitalizing and monetizing people's attention. In this field, whoever has a loud and sustained voice will dominate.
The unique emotional color of memes was also widely spread in the form of emoticons and videos on picture forums such as Reddit, Twitter, and 4chan in the early 21st century. So we can see that in the field of cryptocurrency, there are countless meme coins created around Dogecoin, Pepe, Trump, and Elon mask in recent years.
Now let me tell you about the fun thing I found last night.
The first one is the cover of the comic book "Boy's Club". We can see that the market value of the four strongest characters are:
Upper left corner Landwolf —— 90M
Bottom left Andy —— 200M
Top right Brett - 1.4B
Bottom rightBaby —— 5B
There is also hype surrounding the title of this book, including the Boy's Club book title coins and the author's name.
Recently, the market has been hyping up celebrity coins. For example, the market value of $Trump, which was created by the hot spot of the US election, is as high as 700M;
The existence of Pump on Solana has given some Twitter influencers a more direct channel to monetize their traffic. For example, a female rapper sent $Mother, which is 200M; and the coin $Daddy, which was sent by the former Sol shouting king Ansem and the new Sol boxer Andrew Tate in a fight, is 300M;
Any random dog product can be worth hundreds of millions of US dollars. The value of "attention" is fully reflected at this moment.
Matt Furie also created a collection of 111 illustration characters called the ZOGZ series, which is sold on Opensea. Each character has its own name. At this point, you should have thought that these characters also have their own communities on different chains, of course, most of them are still ownerless.
The website Konw Your Meme records and traces back various online memes and viral videos through wiki. We search for keywords such as PEPE and FROG on it and can see that the fan-made emoticons created by foreign netizens around the Pepe ecosystem in recent years even have a group of fans.
$APU——170M；$Norm——30M
When I dug deeper into this, my thoughts suddenly became clear, as if I had found the source of the Yellow River. Naturally, an idea came to my mind, which was to search for memes with low market capitalization and still operating communities, ambush some of them, and then sell them when ETH and PEPE soar in both volume and price in the late bull market. This would undoubtedly be a victory like cutting a big tree with a knife.
At the same time, I bought four original comic books by Matt Furie on Amazon, intending to study the plot of the comics and the relationship between the main and secondary characters. I always believe that the greatest fun of cryptocurrency trading lies in the moment when the logic is verified, and the process of mining is the greatest enjoyment.
Since the approval of the Bitcoin spot ETF at the beginning of this year, the cumulative net inflow has reached US$15.56 billion. The approval of the BTC spot ETF has provided traditional investors around the world with an easier way to access and invest in BTC, and provided the market with greater liquidity and visibility.
With the expected approval of the Ethereum ETF, we have reason to believe that this round of bull market is the beginning of the compliance of the cryptocurrency circle. The incremental funds in the cryptocurrency circle will increase more than tenfold, a huge surge that you can’t imagine.
In the last round of bull market, Doge's market value reached as high as 85 billion US dollars. Many people, including the author, entered the circle because of Dogecoin. History always repeats itself. Meme is the perpetual motion machine of the bull market, but the protagonist of this round will be the Pepe frog ecosystem.
At the beginning of the year, the frog-dog battle is about to begin. Which side will you bet on?
In addition to ZOGZ and the four comic book series, Matt Furie also created many illustrations in the early stage. Pepe was inspired by the character of Hoppy in 2004. He also created a book The Night Riders for Hoppy.
The reader who can see this must be a person with a peaceful heart.
Next, the author will reveal the meme of this ambush. If you are interested, you can lay out dozens or hundreds of Us and wait for the moment of the prize draw with a thousand times the chance.
$Hoppy——11M contract number 6615 (saw billions of dollars in market value in the late bull market)
$Furie——400K contract first digits 081479 (Matt Furie’s birthday)
$HONK——2.6M
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