Doge grew because it had (and still have) enormous support coming from Elon Musk. Dogecoin proved that crypto has become a highly manipulated space from various big institutions, and they were all taking advantage of Elon's comments at Twitter. The fall also looks like it was all pre-planned to remove weak hands out of the markets while let new people enter low. Now you may see how quickly the coins are recovering. Shocking was the fact that even after Poly Network got hacked, the value of MATIC kept rising.
For now, we won't say that the opportunity has yet been slipped because speculations are high for Bitcoins and analysts are thinking of a $100k BTC soon. Not a financial advice, Dyor friends while investing your money.