Yeah, some of us could have heard about Dogecoin before Bitcoin just like you. But in the end, we should know that Dogecoin is just a meme coin. So throughout it's existence, it has been subject to pump and dump and later on, with the way Elon Musk promote it, we thought that it will challenge bitcoin to be one of the biggest crypto out there and could remove the stigma of being a meme coin. However, it didn't last, obviously Musk has used it to most likely get enrich himself and now it is relegated to it's category as just a meme coin and has been copied by a lot like Shiba and others.
Elon Musk though he would have enriched his pocket with dige, but he failed to realize that it is people that makes him rich. He manipulated and make doge become the crypto payment for Tesla. He bought Twitter and maybe he has in mind to make doge the Twitter currency. But his past mistakes made his network to drop 2 times more. Let us still what would happen. What I know is that no matter how he wants to try to manipulate, doge will still remain a memecoin.