A closer look
Sometimes meme culture genuinely saves the day. The Jamaican bobsled team qualified for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, but they were deeply broke and couldn't afford the exorbitant travel and equipment transport costs. Seeing their plight, the Dogecoin community—a bunch of internet users trading a digital currency based on a picture of a Shiba Inu—banded together. They rapidly crowd-funded over 30,000 dollars in Dogecoin, liquidating it to buy the team their plane tickets and keeping the Cool Runnings dream alive.
