Elon Musk’s internet: So based, much wow. So cringe?
Musk uses online slang to marshal his 200 million social media followers in support of his efforts to gut the federal government. But he might be reaching his limits.
In the fast churn of internet culture, DOGE is considered very old. But try telling that to Elon Musk. The New York Times
In 2010, a woman in Sakura, Japan, posted photos of her well-manicured shiba inu to her digital journal. The dog, Kabosu, shot her owner a wide-eyed glance, a comic image that quickly jumped from Tumblr to Twitter to Facebook and to the rest of the internet.
A meme legend was born. Someone on Reddit called the dog “DOGE”, a nonsensical nickname that stuck. Another minted a cryptocurrency in DOGE’s name.
