Matt Furie posted an audio recording on Twitter where he spoke out about a new collection of non-interchangeable tokens called Zogs.
When asked about the Pepecoin token, the artist said he knew nothing about it.
“In fact, this is the first I’ve heard of it.. What is Pepecoin? I know about ether and bitcoin, I heard about Dogecoin – is it something like that? I’m a Dogecoin maximalist,” Fury joked.
The meme token Pepecoin has become very popular in recent weeks. A few days ago the capitalization of PEPE exceeded $1 billion.
However, on May 8, PEPE plummeted 47%, and now the token’s capitalization is down to $767.4 million.
The character Pepe first appeared in the Furie’s Boy’s Club comic strip, and then the frog’s image was used as a meme on the Internet, including by various political groups.
In 2017, Fury destroyed his green character, frustrated that he had come to be seen as a symbol of hate and associated with the far-right.
The artist has a history with the banning of Pepe from the NFT.
Earlier, trading platform OpenSea was forced to remove Sad Frogs District project collectible tokens, which had a trading volume of about $7 million, after receiving a complaint from Furey.
Recently, crypto-enthusiast and owner of YouTube channel Bitboy Crypto Ben Armstrong spoke skeptically about meme-coins, saying that sooner or later they will all collapse to zero.
At the same time, he stipulated that Dogecoin will not meet the same fate.