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".