In the event that you forgot or did not follow the news, PEPE has some mining problems, even the main developer wrote.
https://miningclub.info/threads/pepepow.105469/page-17source
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5455591.msg62406899#msg62406899Imagine that the currency did not complete the year and all these problems happened to it. PEPE is a dead currency.
SHIB has an infinite supply and this large supply means that there are more burns and thus sharp fluctuations in the price before this coin dies.
DOGE will be the first coin, they have the best code out of all the MEME coins and some fan fans and the media coverage of this coin is still there even though Elon Musk has stopped tweeting.