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“SpaceX is going to put a literal dogecoin on the literal moon.”

Screenshot: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo
Screenshot: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo

Still tickled with crypto, Musk spent sent out three delighted tweets about dogecoin in April of 2021. On April Fool’s Day, he said that SpaceX, his rocket company, was going to put a literal dogecoin on the literal moon. A few weeks later, Musk shared art of what he said was “Doge Barking at the Moon.”

At the end of the month, he inextricably linked himself to dogecoin when he said “The Dogefather,” a reference to himself, would be appearing on Saturday Night Live on May 8.