Ask HN: Is changing the Twitter logo to dogecoin doggy an illegal pump scheme?

11 points·andrewstuart··7 comments

It is not a logo of the "dogecoin doggy". It is doge, a very popular meme which Elon seems to enjoy.

I think the change occurred because of someone's request on his recent Twitter spaces discussion about the algorithm release. Near the end a participant asked about the "Fail Whale" being brought back because it had personality and she missed it. He said he would see about it. So perhaps he wanted to find out what the process would involve for modifying the site's logo.

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJgLdenVjxL

Doge looks like this. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/581296-doge Dogecoin looks like this. https://dogecoin.com/ The twitter one is dogecoin.

Edit: tineye shows only one source older than dogecoin https://tineye.com/search/db05d61c3c1a85f0422ce55961c83e0a59... and I don't think Elon was thinking of blowoutcards.com.

I doubt it, but it's still shaping up to be an embarrassing self-troll. Maybe in a few days Elon will have a good alibi, or perhaps a Tesla-branded time machine headed back to an age when this would be novel or funny.

The Doge meme proceeded before Dogecoin.

If it was the 'Dogecoin logo', you would have a point. But it is an image of the doge meme.

Reuters columnist wrote about it:

>Elon Musk’s Doge barks up SEC’s tree

https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/elon-musks-doge-barks-... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461807)

Paraphrasing Matt Levine… everything is securities fraud. So yes?

of course

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