Apr 08•3 min read
Crypto Comics - What is to The Moon
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I shared my research about “to The Moon” and possible of its original history.
Table of Content
Some Takeaway
What is Moon Moon
Doge Meme
To The Moon
A meme is a Marketing Tool
In Conclusion
Some Takeaways
“To The Moon” is a meme phrase that speculative asset prices particularly in cryptocurrencies go extremely high at some point. The legendary conversation goes like this:
User 1: what cryptocurrency to buy in 20xx?
User 2: xxxx (their favorite one)
User 1: what is the price expectation?
User 2: To The Moon.
Elon Musk also constantly demonstrates the legendary conversation on Twitter many times.
Such as this one:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1382552587099062272
Or in NSL:
https://media.giphy.com/media/XUojAIMYIIOQ9tpx2s/giphy.gif
So, what is the origin of ‘to The Moon’?
What is Moon Moon
Moon Moon is a dog/werewolf’s name. A fictional wolf character that is portrayed as a mentally challenged outcast with silly interior monologues that resemble some similarity to the Doge meme. There are some origins of Moon Moon posts here. Moon Moon was created in 2013 which was the same year Dogecoin was released at. There is an official Moon Moon page on Tumblr here.
Doge Meme
Image credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)
Doge meme was one of the best meme internet phenomena in the 2010s. A picture with a Shiba Inu dog with some deliberately broken English around. Worth to mention that Dogecoin was released after the Doge meme phenomenon.
To The Moon
Image credit: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2005967-dogecoin
There is a possibility that Moon Moon influenced the Doge meme but we do not have a strong piece of evidence to demonstrate that causation. However, Doge has portrayed a similar mentally challenged outcast with silly broken English phrases. What is up with the moon then? The idea was if a Doge can go to the moon, everyone can do so! Yet, people researched what was the original of “to The Moon” on Reddit in 2014. No one really knows.
But the meme has continued!
https://giphy.com/gifs/doge-dogecoin-to-the-moon-Ogak8XuKHLs6PYcqlp
Here is the Doge Moon Map.
Here is the Dogecoin Song:
Here is the ‘To The Moon Cat’ song:
Here is the ‘To The Moon Dog’ song:
Here is the ‘To The Moon Ape’ song:
A meme is a Marketing Tool
A meme is a bridge to connect social movements in the network age. It is also a bridge between Web2 to Web3. Like “To The Moon” is a social movement that influences Web2 to migrate into Web3. Everyone can create a meme and be part of the community.
In Conclusion
To The Moon is a social movement in Web2. Similar to the Dogecoin meme movement, one can also create or participate.
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Resource
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=to%20the%20moon
https://decrypt.co/66700/elon-musk-moon-tweet-sends-dogecoin-flying-high-again
https://imgur.com/gallery/UDj8o
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/moon-moon-memes/
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/moon-moon-memes/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin
https://moonmoon-official.tumblr.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)
https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1v5imo/origin_of_the_phrase_to_the_moon/
http://www.dogecoinonthemoon.com/index.php
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1591110/FULLTEXT01.pdf
