Musk Uses Grok AI to Revive ‘Bitcoin Girl’ Meme, Revisiting a 2018 Crypto Classic

“Bitcoin Girl” is an anime-style meme that personifies Bitcoin and has circulated in the cryptocurrency community for years. In 2018, Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted the same image on Twitter, now called X. The unusual style of the post led the platform to mistakenly suspect that his account had been hacked and briefly lock it, turning the episode into a classic piece of crypto lore.

About eight years later, in July 2026, Musk used Grok, developed by his AI company xAI, to animate the original static “Bitcoin Girl” image and shared the result on X, renewing discussion across the community. No investment or transaction amounts were involved or disclosed. The focus was on Grok’s image-generation capabilities bringing the classic 2018 meme back into the spotlight.