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    1 month ago

    Why are people saying that it was named after a cryptocurrency?

    Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing “doge”?

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      1 month ago

      True! It was then technically named after a meme…which the coin named itself after, as it was supposed to be a “meme coin”.

      Still stands though.

      “Government agency named after meme. Such dumb. So chaos. Woooooow.” Lol

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      1 month ago

      Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing “doge”?

      It used to be so, but in recent several years Doge has lived and pretty much been defined in public consciousness by the cryptocurrency, which Musk has openly endorsed/memed.

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      1 month ago

      It was for me until a few years ago. I used doge as a base for most of my internet alias since I like the meme (as you can see from my username). One time inside a game, I was asked if I was a crypto bro because of my ign. At the time, i don’t like crypto but have no hard feelings against it. Ever since then I loath those crypto bros and their worship of crypto currencies for destroying the image of doge and with their stupid crypto currency nonsense.