Everywhere you turn, there's Dogecoin. Serious people talk about it, usually pinpointing its shortcomings, influencers won't say two consecutive phrases without mentioning it, and regular people simply want to adopt the cute little doggy. Hmm, I wonder what cat people feel about all this? They must create their own KITTYcoin asap.
If you're like me, you look at Dogecoin and the whole craziness surrounding it with detachment and sometimes with amusement. Bingo! That's the use case for dogecoin! And it was all along. To be a joke, to provoke laughter, amusement. It works on me, sometimes.
Will it graduate to other use cases? I have no idea. Some say it might. Others on the contrary, that it will always be a joke. But until then, it has the base use case. Lol, haha, and lots of fun and excitement on the way up. I wonder how it will be on the way down.
I never check the evolution of DOGE. From what others write I become aware of its price from time to time. As I was surprised when someone mentioned it slowly went all the way up to number 5 by market cap in the cryptosphere. If that's not funny, I don't know what is!
I probably wouldn't be so amused at times if I previously held significant amounts of DOGE and dispose of them before the pump. But I never held them. Even when I received them from faucets, immediately after payout I turned them into something else. So I have nothing to feel sorry about.
I still have a couple of DOGE received from crypto.com supercharger recently. I'll hold on to those, regardless of their evolution. As amusing as this whole thing seems, I wouldn't want to look back years after these days and realize that the joke was on me, not on the funny coin buyers and holders.