{"id":4953,"date":"2025-01-01T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2025-01-01T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:20:10","slug":"musk-makes-memes-great-again-as-pepe-surges-wepe-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=4953","title":{"rendered":"Musk Makes Memes Great Again \u2013 As PEPE Surges, WEPE to Follow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve, Elon Musk struck again.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire entrepreneur and frequent social media provocateur once again shook up the cryptocurrency market, changing his X (formerly Twitter) profile name to \u201cKekius Maximus\u201d and swapping his avatar to an armored depiction of Pepe the Frog.<\/p>\n<p>His shout-out to Pepe, a beloved figure in meme culture, sent shockwaves through the memecoin market. Overnight, Musk\u2019s tweet achieved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">The birth of a new memecoin, Kekius Maximus<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">A 20% price surge for $PEPE<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Revived interest in frog-themed memecoins like <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.care\/box_dbdb0a727742b78a9663aa04a2cb2778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wall Street Pepe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With a simple profile picture, Musk demonstrated that he remains the lord of the memes, from <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/solid-support-dogecoin-price\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener \">Doge<\/a> to Pepe the Frog and now Kekius Maximus.<\/p>\n<h2>The Market Impact of Musk\u2019s Move<\/h2>\n<p>Musk\u2019s profile update triggered the birth and meteoric rise of Kekius Maximus (KEKIUS), a meme token inspired by his new persona.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-359927\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=640&amp;resize=600%2C295\" alt=\"$KEKIUS price chart\" width=\"600\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=1038 1038w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=640 640w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=980 980w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=130 130w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=104 104w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=83 83w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-price.png?w=750 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/p>\n<p>KEKIUS saw a staggering 1,200% price increase and a trading volume of over $5M in just 24 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Pepe Coin (PEPE), another token tied to the iconic frog meme, experienced its own spike, up 3.4% in the past week.<\/p>\n<h2>Memes Make Money, Resonate With Community<\/h2>\n<p>Pepe the Frog, originally created by artist Matt Furie, has transcended its roots in internet meme culture to become a symbol of the ever-evolving relationship between digital culture and financial markets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk remains eager to engage with this imagery, highlighting the power of meme culture on the crypto market.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-359928\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-memes-x.png?w=480&amp;resize=600%2C525\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-memes-x.png?w=620 620w, https:\/\/bitcoinist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/kekius-maximus-memes-x.png?w=480 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"><\/p>\n<p>Just a few moves \u2013 like changing a profile pic \u2013 show how meme culture can shape real-world economic phenomena.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s actions underscore the power of celebrity endorsements and social media in influencing investor behavior and market sentiment.<\/p>\n<h2>PEPE Power, Big WEPE Moves?<\/h2>\n<p>For Elon Musk, there\u2019s always one big question: what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>His changing his name to Kekius Maximus shows the appeal of frog-themed meme coins. $PEPE boosted on the back of Musk\u2019s tweets, while $PEPU \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/pepeunchained.com\/en#home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pepe Unchained<\/a> \u2013 experienced an increase in trading immediately afterwards, with trading volume up 16%.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s playful engagement with meme culture continues to blur the lines between humor and finance and sets the stage for other meme coins to make big moves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinist.care\/box_dbdb0a727742b78a9663aa04a2cb2778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Wall Street Pepe<\/a>, $WEPE, looks set to continue the winning streak for frog-themed memes. The ongoing presale, expected to conclude sometime in early 2025, has already raised over $38M.<\/p>\n<p>A $1,000 investment into $PEPE in early March 2024 would have returned nearly $2.2K by the end of the year. That\u2019s a potential gain of 119.4% in nine months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No investment is a sure thing; be sure to do your own research and don\u2019t take anyone\u2019s word for it \u2014 even Elon Musk\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s worth asking: is $WEPE positioned to be the next big green winner?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve, Elon Musk struck again. The billionaire entrepreneur and frequent social media provocateur once again shook up the cryptocurrency market, changing his X (formerly Twitter) profile name to \u201cKekius Maximus\u201d and swapping his avatar to an armored depiction of Pepe the Frog. His shout-out to Pepe, a beloved figure in meme culture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}