Musk takes orders again, replaces laser eyes after three years

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24-07-22 14:05

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During the US election, "hot memes" continue to appear.

In the early morning of Beijing time today, the current US President Biden issued a statement announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 US presidential election and will support Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate. Subsequently, related meme coins such as $HERRIS, $KAMALA, and $KAMA, which surged in a short period of time, ran into the community's vision.

At the same time, Musk, who has received much attention from the crypto community and supports the Trump camp, also "made it alive", driving a meme coin "DMAGA" with a concept of the election to surge more than 50 times in a short period of time.

Changing the avatar in the early morning led to a 50-fold surge in memes

In recent days, Musk has frequently forwarded content related to US politics on his Twitter account, clearly supporting Trump who is running for election. In the early hours of today, a netizen @Chriswinig left a message under Musk's early morning Twitter comment that New York's crime rate had risen by 11%, saying: "It's time!", and attached a picture of Musk's original avatar with a "Dark mask" with laser eyes.

This picture was generated by a website called DarkMagacoin. After the Trump shooting, the community launched a picture-making website based on Trump's famous fist-raising photo as an IP, with the slogan "Dark MAGA Patriots Control Everything". Community fans can use the tools provided by the official website to generate the same dark laser eye picture.

Most importantly, the website launched the meme coin $DMAGA. However, before Musk changed his avatar, the transaction volume of $DMAGA was less than $2 million a week after its launch.

In the early hours of this morning, the news that Biden announced his withdrawal from the US presidential election once again ignited the excitement of Trump supporters. Musk replaced the picture in the comment area with his own avatar, which was seen as a high-profile response to celebrate Biden's withdrawal from the election.

The community immediately discovered that Marc Andreessen, founder of a16z, and Ryan Selkis, founder of Messari, had changed their avatars to the "same" laser eyes to represent their support for Trump.

With Musk's "leading the order", DMAGA started to soar in the early hours, with an increase of more than 50 times in a few hours. As of the time of writing, the market value has exceeded 60 million US dollars.

Musk wore laser eyes during the bull market three years ago

In fact, "laser eyes" have a special meaning to the crypto community and are a symbol of how crypto believers view Bitcoin.

In early 2021, during the bull market three years ago, Bitcoin rose all the way, from $29,000 at the beginning of the year to $56,000. Amid the excitement and bullishness of the crypto community, crypto podcast host Greg Zaj launched a "#LaserRayUntil100K" campaign on Twitter, believing that Bitcoin is about to break through the $100,000 mark.

"Laser eyes" refer to the fact that in the game, when the enemy is controlled by another entity, their eyes will emit yellow light. Therefore, the crypto community uses laser eye portraits to express their belief in Bitcoin. At that time, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, CoinShares CEO Meltem Demirors, and even U.S. Senator Cythia Lummis became participants in this event.

The most important participant was Musk. On February 20, 2021, Musk suddenly changed his profile picture to a girl with "laser eyes" with a Bitcoin pattern in the background. Under Musk's leadership, Twitter at the time became a sea of laser eyes.