Elon Musk Stuns PEPE Army with Gladiator Movie Post, Coin Up 14%

Tech billionaire, the founder and CEO of multiple innovative companies, Elon Musk has published a meme tweet, that triggered a wave of heated responses from the community of Pepe Coin ($PEPE). The coin’s price reacted, displaying a significant growth.

Musk’s X post also contains a reference to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II movie which was released in movie theatres around the world in November.

$PEPE price reacts to Musk’s tweet, jumping 14%

The tech successful tech entrepreneur and centibillionaire Musk retweeted a post from an X user @alx (with more than 875,000 followers on the X platform), which shows Pepe the Frog standing on the Coliseum arena dressed like a Roman general and wearing a laurel wreath on the head. The post calls this image: “Kekius Maximus."

Elon Musk supplied his retweet with this message: “Amazing” followed by a star-struck emoji. The community responded with amazed and supportive comments, regarding Musk’s recent appointment to head the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, which the Tesla and X boss prefers to short down to D.O.G.E. which pleases himself and the Dogecoin community.

Several AI-generated pictures in the comments show Musk as a Roman general, referring to the Gladiator movies, who is fighting for what is right. Several $PEPE enthusiasts published AI-made pictures of $PEPE the Frog. In one of them, $PEPE is carrying a sink into the Twitter headquarters, saying “Let that sink in” and referring to Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of this popular social media platform.

$PEPE’s price reacted to Musk’s mention of the meme by jumping roughly 14% during the last 24 hours. At the time of this writing, $PEPE is changing hands at $0.00002459 after a small downward rebound.

Whale scoops up 326.3 billion $PEPE

Earlier today, an anonymous whale got the market’s attention by purchasing massive amounts of meme cryptocurrencies – $SHIB, $PEPE, and $NEIRO.

He acquired 144.5 billion $SHIB, 326.5 billion $PEPE, and 550.1 million $NEIRO coins within one hour using nine different cryptocurrency wallets, having paid 12.8 million DAI stablecoins for those meme coin batches.

Earlier this year, in spring, this whale made almost $9 million by selling his $SHIB coins (533.6 billion of them) and now stocking up on $SHIB once again.