Tech billionaire, the founder and CEO of multiple innovative companies, Elon Musk has published a meme tweet, that triggered a wave of heated responses from the community of Pepe Coin (PEPE). The coin’s price reacted, displaying a significant growth.
Musk’s X post also contains a reference to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II movie which was released in movie theatres around the world in November.
PEPE price reacts to Musk’s tweet, jumping 14%
The tech successful tech entrepreneur and centibillionaire Musk retweeted a post from an X user @alx (with more than 875,000 followers on the X platform), which shows Pepe the Frog standing on the Coliseum arena dressed like a Roman general and wearing a laurel wreath on the head. The post calls this image: “Kekius Maximus.”
Amazing 🤩 https://t.co/tv5imVy2CT
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 10, 2024
Elon Musk supplied his retweet with this message: “Amazing” followed by a star-struck emoji. The community responded with amazed and supportive comments, regarding Musk’s recent appointment to head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, which the Tesla and X boss prefers to short down to D.O.G.E. which pleases himself and the Dogecoin community.
Several AI-generated pictures in the comments show Musk as a Roman general, referring to the Gladiator movies, who is fighting for what is right. Several PEPE enthusiasts published AI-made pictures of PEPE the Frog. In one of them, PEPE is carrying a sink into the Twitter headquarters, saying “Let that sink in” and referring to Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of this popular social media platform.
Let that sink in? pic.twitter.com/iMZKVpGij5
— Mark Zuckerberg – CEO of Facebook – Parody (@MarkZuckss) December 10, 2024
PEPE’s price reacted to Musk’s mention of the meme by jumping roughly 14% during the last 24 hours. At the time of this writing, PEPE is changing hands at $0.00002459 after a small downward rebound.
Whale scoops up 326.3 billion PEPE
Earlier today, an anonymous whale got the market’s attention by purchasing massive amounts of meme cryptocurrencies – SHIB, PEPE, and NEIRO.
He acquired 144.5 billion SHIB, 326.5 billion PEPE, and 550.1 million NEIRO coins within one hour using nine different cryptocurrency wallets, having paid 12.8 million DAI stablecoins for those meme coin batches.
Earlier this year, in spring, this whale made almost $9 million by selling his SHIB coins (533.6 billion of them) and now stocking up on SHIB once again.
