Yesterday, the Dogecar, a dogecoin and reddit-sponsored NASCAR car, placed 20th of 43 in Aaron's 499, a NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway. The dogecoin community that crowdfunded the car's paint job and Wise's entry to the race watched eagerly. Simultaneously, they updated live commentaries to the /r/dogecoin subreddit.If you don't already know what dogecoin is, then it's likely you're avoiding it. Sure, it's a six-month-old cryptocurrency based on a shiba inu, but by the grace of its charitable and outgoing community, dogecoin has appeared in so many places in the past six months, that you're of another world if you haven't at least heard the word, or seen the shiba's face.
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Alexis Ohanian of reddit, as well as some devoted dogecoin enthusiasts and tech journalists made the pilgrimage to Alabama to see the Dogecar in action.After a long night of being out, I woke up and went to shake a journalist friend sleeping on my couch, "The Dogecar is on in a half hour!" Another friend sent a text saying he was headed to a Dogecar viewing party in midtown Manhattan. As enticing as watching the race in a pub full of NYC dogephiles sounded, I chose my couch, where sat and ate an entire pizza before the race had even begun.I wasn't merely being a slob, I actually stayed home for a couple of defensible reasons:Spotted earlier: @josh_wise and @alexisohanian with the #Dogecar!! pic.twitter.com/DXXl4vfL1f
— Follow The Coin (@FollowTheCoin) May 4, 2014
- In celebration of the cultural convergance of shibes (members of the dogecoin community) and NASCAR fans, I felt like taking the less familiar perspective of the latter. Besides, I've gotten out of hand with the doge people before.
- This might sound lame, but I'm not one to pass up a live-gif opportunity like a dogecar race. Also, having mostly live-giffed political debates and space events, I felt like finally tapping into sports gif-making, despite Deadspin and SB Nation already having it well-covered. But for me, refraining from making sports gifs would, at some point, feel akin to strictly playing classical piano, and never jazz.
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