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Chill Guy

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A wood carving of the Chill Guy meme

... that an unapproved cryptocurrency of the meme Chill Guy reached a half-billion dollar market cap, was promoted by the President of El Salvador, and caused the meme's original creator to be doxxed? (Source)
- ALT1: ... that a drawing of a dog caused an unaffiliated song to debut on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, was promoted by the President of El Salvador, and had it's original creator doxxed? (song source, other two claims source (same as above))
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1990 United States Senate election in Tennessee

Improved to Good Article status by Johnson524 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 27 past nominations.

Johnson524 08:19, 27 April 2025 (UTC).

Article was recently promoted to GA status, has no copyright issues or any other issues and is well-sourced. QPQ has been done so it is good to go. I think that the first hook is the best, but perhaps slightly too long - perhaps "reached a half-billion dollar market cap," could be cut from the sentence? But it is not a big deal either way. Well done on the article! :) This DYK is good to go DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 17:20, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
- Actually, after reading the source again, I am a bit confused by the "was promoted by the President of El Salvador" - the source seems to say that the meme was shared by the president, whereas the hook suggests that the president actively promoted the cryptocurrency rather than the meme. Could the hook be edited? DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 17:25, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
  - @DaniloDaysOfOurLives: Thank you for the review and kind words! 🙂 I am a little confused on your reasoning though, as by promoting the coin he by extension promoted the meme by posted the picture of Chill Guy to all of his followers? If you don't believe this does, however, how would you recommend rephrasing it? Cheers! Johnson524 18:04, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
  - Further information: the source shows that his tweet solely consisted of "an image of the Chill Guy in a grassy field for some reason and without comment." So it was more so people assuming he was promoting the coin (which he was), but all he really did was just post a picture of the meme with no comment, which I still feel like is promotion. Johnson524 18:07, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
  - I understand your reasoning and I agree. Hence, it should not be changed, and the hook is good to go ! :D Well done! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 18:11, 28 April 2025 (UTC)