THE COMMUNITY MEME ARCHIVE
DOPE
Doge + Pepe = DOPE
The backstory starts in the Claude community: a post on r/ClaudeAI about a caption script built with Anthropic’s Claude Code and a reported $1,900 API bill. The story ↗
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The $1,900
story.
Captions accepted,
according to the post.
The character came first.
Then came the caption script.
DOPE is Doge + Pepe: Doge’s golden-orange look with Pepe’s deadpan face. In a post on r/ClaudeAI titled “I accidentally made a $1,900 meme,” the author described the hybrid they had made and named DOPE.
The Anthropic connection is Claude Code, which they used to write a Python script for 50 distinct captions. According to the post, it stalled at 12/50 while rejected captions triggered more attempts. The script kept feeding earlier attempts back into the next request and saving thousands of images.
The author reported almost $1,900 in API usage. The expensive part was the caption loop; DOPE was already the image being captioned.
Retold from a saved copy of the Reddit post, which was removed by a moderator. The spending figures are the author’s account. This story does not establish who launched the token.