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A slew of tech bros—including the richest man in the world, Elon Musk—have adopted Mog Coin’s crypto-famous branding, apparently leading the Ethereum and Base token to pump 51% on the week, per data from CoinGecko. Mog Coin (MOG) is a meme coin referencing the slang phrase “mogging” or “to mog,” a term that originated on controversial image board 4Chan in 2016, according to KnowYourMeme. Put simply, it means to dominate somebody or something, often via physical strength or good looks. However, the meme coin took this phrase and evolved its meaning to “effortless cosmic domination,” while adding viral branding of a laughing cat wearing Pit Viper sunglasses. On Sunday, Musk changed his X profile picture to add the Pit Vipers that MOG has become synonymous with. Soon after, Garry Tan, CEO of tech startup accelerator Y Combinator, also put on the glasses, adding that he will “always be mogging” in what crypto supporters have taken as a more direct acknowledgment of the token. To help turbo-charge the trend, a MOG team member created a Grok AI prompt that stylizes profile pictures and adds Pit Vipers to them—creating a dedicated X account for it. Other notable tech figures like millionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and X employee Nate Esparza have also jumped on the trend.  This infiltration of the tech industry has been nicknamed “mog/acc” by community members, saluting to the pro-tech effective accelerationism—referred to as e/acc—philosophical movement. The founder of the movement, former Google quantum computing engineer Guillaume Verdon, better known as BasedBeffJezos on X, also embraced Mog. “Caved to the mog/acc PFP virus,” he wrote on X, after adding Pit Vipers to his profile picture. The viral buzz made some X users question whether the Mog Coin team had been lobbying tech bros behind the scenes…

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