People used to call doge coin a meme coin. Nothing else. It has no real use case. People just used it for fun. It was used for "tipping" users in forums and other communities. It started as a meme coin and will always be a meme coin. No one cared about doge coin until Musk started talking about it. So if musk leaves, there is a high chance the price of doge coin will drop back to where it was before.
Its far from true. It was a meme coin in 2015. it was one of 5 coins with biggest addoption in 2020. It was the most used altcoin on gambling sites
(my doge investment @27sat used as bankroll on yolodice). It was widely accepted if you wanted to pay for something using crypto (doge was more popular than ltc, bch) - I payed for proxy servers, vps and many more using DOGE in 2020. "My friend" bought pornhub premium using doge.
It had stable +20sat price in last 6 years. For sure current 800 sat price is way to high and I expect 90% dump but its price dump, not adoption dump which was growing without musk and will continue to grow without him. Doge is not going anywhere.
Shiba is a meme coin made from meme just like doge coin made from a meme. It's funny to see how each are calling the other shitcoins, despite both being the same,
Everything except maybe 3-5 coins (BTC, ETH, BNB) are shitcoins. But there is hudge differenct between coin that is with us for 6 years, stable against BTC for years, with better adoption than BCH or LTC and shitcoin that was just created and pomped x10 000 out of nowhere.