Follow U.S. Immigration and U.S. Life: In the second half of 2013, the "Doge Meme" in U.S. internet grassroots culture saw an explosive growth in search volume across major search engines. This image of a Shiba Inu, originally just cute and silly, was paired with grammatically strange phrases like "wow" and "such XX." It nonsensically struck a chord with the American public, was dubbed with the proper noun "Doge," and was even named a cultural phenomenon of the year by networks such as NBC.
Recently, Doge has also combined with the trend of electronic currency to become "Dogecoin." Dogecoin has its own strategy; it does not follow the profit-making path of Bitcoin, but instead makes good use of the American "tipping culture." This humble gesture, viewed as a donation or sign of respect to service providers, is also widely used on the internet. Compared to expensive Bitcoin, Dogecoin has a lower barrier to entry and is "cuter." Just two weeks after its launch, Dogecoin reached a high of $400 per coin. According to data from Coinmarketcap, Dogecoin once jumped to become the seventh-largest electronic currency in the world (it had fallen back to fourteenth place yesterday).
