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Giant Elon Musk Sculpture, Inspired By Meme, Spotted In Texas

A giant bronze sculpture of Elon Musk was seen getting hauled by a Cybertruck in Brownsville, Texas.

Louis XXII (real name unknown), a French entrepreneur, is the person behind this idea. According to him, the project was inspired by a poor drawing of the tech billionaire few years ago. Musk himself responded to the image after it went viral, thereby prompting it to become a meme. Louis XXII added: “We had the idea to to bring something into life that would be more striking and maybe even crazier and funnier.”

Louis XXII calls himself the founder of ElonRWA, which he describes as a ‘real-world asset meme’ that lives on the blockchain. It is tokenized on Ether L2 (the second layer of the Ethereum blockchain) and managed by FeistyDAO, an autonomous and decentralized organization. However, the entrepreneur clarified that the physical sculpture has no relation to the valuation of ElonRWA but rather is a ‘funny way’ to represent the meme.

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Earlier this year, Louis XXII and a few other artists created a large mural of the same drawing of Musk in the same city, along with the caption ‘Occupy Mars’. This time, they took it a step further. A member of FiestyDAO created a 3D rendering of the drawing, while a Utah-based company 3D-printed it using foam and fiberglass. According to Louis XXII, the core idea of this act is to take something viral only on the internet and cause it to have some impact on the real world.