Have you ever wondered why nobody hates on @elonmusk for backing Dogecoin?
It's because he never just slapped DOGE on his profile and pretended to be part of the culture. He actually bought into the community.
He bought the token, followed the main DOGE accounts, posted stupid-ass memes, and still does it to this day. I still randomly see @dogeofficialceo on my timeline because Elon retweets him.
Then he got close to the Trumpsta and named an entire government agency DOGE.
That is majestic. That is out-of-the-box degen thinking.
Elon made DOGE part of his identity. He understood that a meme is not just a ticker or whatever is hot this week. It is a community, an inside joke, a shared language, and something people genuinely feel part of.
It is like supporting a sports team. You don't switch teams every time yours has a bad season. You stick with them, and when they finally win, it means infinitely more because you were there through all of it.
That's what some still don't understand about the trenches. You cannot manufacture this shit or go through the motions. You either genuinely love the culture, become part of the community, and have fun with it, or you do not.
Elon thought Dogecoin was funny, embraced the community, and never stopped posting.
That is why it worked. It was fucking real.
Usually after wealth creation events I look back and backtest what I could have done better. This time, with Robinhood chain, I found a unique lesson.
At least in my circles, many more Americans hit the Robinhood runners - and I think its mostly a culture gap.
For most non-US traders, RH is just that app that had some GME scandal.
But for US guys who can't even log into Binance, it's the symbol of finance for retail.
Which leads to my point: our job in trading isn't only clicking fastest, collecting wallets, or scraping Twitters - there's real responsibility in cultural expansion too. More true in crypto than any market.
Open your mind and heart to other people's perspectives - you might not paper $4m on a random cat next time ;)
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