In fact, it is much broader than the Musk project.
It has always been!
Because basically, Dogecoin has its own characteristics to be used as a transaction tool, one of them. and also as a meme coin which is the most important and trendsetter.
Dogecoin has all the characteristics of Bitcoin except the supply change, which is an infinitesimal increase compared to all the coins already minted.
Completely different for other meme coins doge has 99% usage and 1% things about meme, the other coins are all about trends, they have zero whatsoever daily life use, dogecoin is accepted everywhere and nobody laughs at getting paid in doge. Do that with puppydogmilkconfetti token!
That's right, Doge is very special because Doge is the pioneer of all the meme coins that currently exist. Imagine that previously Dogecoin didn't have many fans until Elon Musk started giving full support to Dogecoin and made the price rise to very expensive.
Not true!
Musk's first tweet about dogecoin was in 2019, dogecoin has always been a top 20 coins even before that:
https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20170101/