Doge was just taken seriously due to the pump of Musk. Now it was under a lens and people see its decentralization after all no one decides on its path because the CEO abandoned it.
Exactly, that's why Doge is known to be a meme coin because it is just a joke of a crypto, of course for us gamblers we used because it is quick as compare to bitcoin and then we convert it to our favorite crypto. But then wihen Elon Musk enters the picture and then promote it, suddenly the whole crypto verse is into meme coins. There is Shiba and others and then this one. I don't think they chooses the wrong name. The people behind knows that there is hype so they jump on the bandwagon, uses that name so that they can attract investors. Maybe it rub some people the wrong way, but I'm thinking that there could be some that can fall for this trick and invest.