With the state of American politics beginning to smell like a rotting carcass, Elon Musk served up a nice distraction on Monday when he replaced the blue Twitter bird logo with the Dogecoin dog.
“As promised,” Musk tweeted, sharing a screengrab of an earlier exchange about making such a change and how that “would be sickkk.”
As promised pic.twitter.com/Jc1TnAqxAV
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023
The play resulted in a much-needed boost for the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, coming after Musk asked a judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit alleging he’s running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency, according to Reuters.
His legal team called the lawsuit by investors a “fanciful work of fiction” over Musk’s “innocuous and often silly tweets” about the cryptocurrency, the news agency reported.
Speaking of silly tweets:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2023
While Musk’s critics were quick to dump on him and drudge all sorts of conspiratorial claims, others rolled with the sudden development.
Either way, hilarity ensued… here’s a sampling of some of the jocularity from Twitter:
I can’t wait until billions of people watch Elon Musk put a Dogecoin on the moon
— Matt Wallace (@MattWallace888) April 3, 2023
“The most entertaining outcome is the most likely” – @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/EpG4xIBnSB
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) April 3, 2023
tweet tweet became woof woof ! pic.twitter.com/zz0HWtGBOh
— BabyDogeSwap.com LIVE (@BabyDogeCoin) April 3, 2023
— RR2Capital (@RR2Capital) April 3, 2023
— Kristina Wong (@kristina_wong) April 3, 2023
But can’t deny how handsome they look with them. pic.twitter.com/8iFupWjocO
— WoofWork.io ($WOOF) (@woof_work) April 3, 2023
ai/mj prompt in alt. pic.twitter.com/TjS7cgyQdS
— Pete Halvorsen (@petehalvorsen) April 3, 2023
Looks like we’re no longer using the bird app, It’s all about the doge app now
petition to rename “tweet” to “bark” pic.twitter.com/XHF91dgVQ5
— richerd.eth (@richerd) April 3, 2023
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