I love squirrels. I think they’re hilarious little parkour rats with fluffy tails and chaotic energy—and I respect that. My dog, on the other hand, sees them as his sworn enemies. If you even whisper ...

Tech mogul Elon Musk invoked a six-year-old meme to highlight how pet squirrel ‘Peanut's' death changed the course of the 2024 U.S. elections, causing the price of the associated meme coin to jump 11% ...

In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous street rodent, to a famous influencer, to a billion dollar cryptocurrency. His story is a parable of the modern attention economy.