Original Author: Deep Tide TechFlow
As BTC stopped falling, the Meme sector, which had been quiet for a while, finally couldn’t resist and started to rebound, with the leading Memecoin, $Pepe, being the first to do so. However, this time, many “family members” followed $Pepe in its rebound.
This year, the popularity of Memecoins has continued to spread. A single Pepe is no longer enough to satisfy the market’s demand for hype. Therefore, various small frogs that were previously undivided and collectively referred to as Pepe have been individually selected by the market, transforming into various new Memecoins.
Deep Tide TechFlow has compiled a list of the current popular members of the Pepe family, allowing you to gain a deeper understanding of the native frog meme culture.
Keep this Pepe genealogy, just in case the “frog market” comes someday.
PS: Due to the lack of a unified consensus on the image of the Pepe family in the market, the projects with the highest current popularity for each Meme image are introduced in the article.
Choose your hero and start losing money
Pepe
Official Twitter:
https://x.com/pepecoineth
Contract Address: 0x6982508145454Ce325dDbE47a25d4ec3d2311933
As the most classic character in frog meme culture, $Pepe was also the first frog Memecoin to become popular in the cryptocurrency world, and it even exceeded the expectations of most people. Pepecoin’s story of wealth does not need to be elaborated. From the perspective of Meme culture, Pepe is the earliest character in the frog family, created by cartoonist Matt Furie. Pepe first appeared in Furie’s comic “Boy’s Club” in 2005 and gradually became a widely spread Meme on the 4chan forum, loved by the users.
Now, Pepe has become a well-known IP in the crypto world, and it only took less than a year for the market to pay attention to $Pepe’s wealth effect and IP influence.
Pepecoin with the same name
Official Twitter:
https://x.com/pepecoins
Contract Address: 0xA9E8aCf069C58aEc8825542845Fd754e41a9489A
After the popularity of $Pepe last year, many tokens with the same name quickly followed. $Pepecoin seems to be more than just riding on the popularity. In its official article, the team mentioned that they had planned to launch a virtual currency with the Pepe image as early as 2016, but it was not successfully implemented for various reasons. It wasn’t until 2023, when $Pepe became popular again, that the team’s enthusiasm was reignited. The team also followed suit to issue tokens after the explosion of $Pepe. The “orthodoxy” of the right to issue coins for the “frog Pepe” IP seems to have always been controversial.
According to the investigation, $Pepecoin has a relatively large pool, and when $Pepe soared earlier this year, $Pepecoin also experienced a wave of sharp rise and has not returned to zero yet (but it has been halved).
However, it is obvious that the market is no longer satisfied with the hype of a single frog Meme. The wealth effect and IP influence brought by $Pepe have spread to other frog Meme images.
Smug Pepe
It is worth mentioning that due to the slower penetration of frog Meme culture compared to the hype of the Crypto market, Sumg Pepe has always been regarded as the symbol of the $Pepe token. Even now, the official Twitter account of Pepecoin still uses the avatar of Smug Pepe. This also reflects that most people are not so concerned about the specific details of the subdivided frog culture, and the specifics of which frog the chart represents is not the main concern of the hype market.
After a thorough search, we found that there is currently no unified consensus on the hype of the Smug Pepe image. The existing Smug Pepe-related Twitter accounts are diverse, and Memecoin pools have shallow liquidity, making participation risky. Interested readers can delve deeper and stay tuned.
MonkaS
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/MonkasErc20
Contract Address: 0xdc7ac5d5d4a9c3b5d8f3183058a92776dc12f4f3
MonkaS first appeared on Twitch TV and originated from the Pepe image as a secondary creation emoticon. Its meaning is “shocked sweating Pepe,” and it is usually used in tense moments during game broadcasts.
As an image closest to Pepe, MonkaS has been hyped as an independent IP for a long time. After seeing someone on CX MonkaS, I realized that it is not the same image as the original Pepe in the Meme culture layer. (It can also be considered as a reflection of Memecoin’s dissemination of Meme culture.)
Apustaja (Apu)
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/ApusCoin
Contract Address: 0x594daad7d77592a2b97b725a7ad59d7e188b5bfa
The scribbled version of the young frog Apustaja is also a popular frog Meme image. Since its debut in 2016, it has become very popular (I also like it very much). The Internet has gradually spawned many Meme pictures of Apustaja, and people are happy to project real-world life onto this image. Many cryptocurrency projects also favor making Meme with Apustaja as the theme.
$Apu is currently available on the Bybit exchange.
Ashbie
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/ashbiemooncoinx
Contract Address: 0x789E29153A3c5E6598368716f8C146B5eBEfF969
When mentioning Apu, you have to introduce Apu’s girlfriend, Ashbie. I don’t know when, netizens arranged for the popular image Apu to have a cute girlfriend, Ashbie. The Internet gradually began to produce various Meme pictures of Apu and Ashbie dating. This somewhat contrasting combination did not make people feel uncomfortable; instead, it felt unexpectedly appropriate. Apu and Ashbie were also once regarded by netizens as the representative image of “This could be us” pure love meme.
It is worth mentioning that before the launch of $Ashbie tokens, the Dev team airdropped to users who had left their addresses under the tweets for free. At the peak of the token price, the value of a single airdrop to one account was close to $2500.
Peepo
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/PEEPOCOIN_ARMY
Contract Address: 0xaada04204e9e1099daf67cf3d5d137e84e41cf41
Peepo is also a member of the Pepe family, one of the young frog images. Most people’s most common understanding of Peepo may come from the various expression packs in WeChat (?)
As a member of the frog IP, $Peepo tokens have maintained good community enthusiasm after going online. The project is also relatively active on Twitter.
$Peepo is currently available on the Bitget exchange.
Groyper
Project Twitter:
https://x.com/GroyperOnETH
Contract Address: 0x6942806d1b2d5886d95ce2f04314ece8eb825833
The image of Groyper also first appeared on the 4chan forum, and the specific reasons and references are still unclear (anyway, it just caught on). It is worth mentioning that this frog image with its chin resting on its hand is rarely used to represent “wisdom” and is more often used by far-right and neo-right groups or individuals on social networks as a personal profile picture.
While hype is good, protecting your capital is more important.
After clarifying the differences between the Pepe family members, we will no longer have the feeling of “feeling unlike but unable to specify where” when encountering various Pepe emoticons in the future.
However, most of the conceptual tokens of the Pepe family are still in the initial speculative stage, with insufficient consensus and poor liquidity, and there is a certain risk of a rug pull. Please participate with caution.
Perhaps there are still more frog family Memecoins waiting to be discovered.