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From his space spat with Jeff Bezos to his ex-gf Grimes trying to become a meme<\/a> post-breakup, Elon Musk\u2019s 2021 was full of secondhand embarrassment. But the Musk muck-up that\u2019s seared in our minds from this year is likely when he hosted SNL <\/em>in May.<\/p>\n According to the LA Times, Musk was the first non-entertainer\/athlete to host the show since Donald Trump in 2015, and his hosting gig couldn\u2019t have come at a more bizarre time. Leading up to the show, dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on the meme of a shiba inu dog, had soared<\/a> to become the fourth-biggest digital coin by market capitalization. Musk had a big hand in all this\u2014his tweets about the coin, such as \u201cDogecoin is the people\u2019s crypto,\u201d helped fuel its popularity.<\/p>\n Well, those fears came true. The price of dogecoin dropped 36% during the Musk\u2019s SNL<\/em> episode, in which he called the token a \u201chustle\u201d in a sketch\u2014and it hasn\u2019t recovered. Now, dogecoin is the eleventh-largest crypto by market cap.<\/p>\n But it wasn\u2019t all cringy. <\/strong>Technically, the episode won an Emmy, but it certainly wasn\u2019t for Musk\u2019s Wario impression\u2026or his comedic ability: SNL<\/em> won the award for Outstanding Contemporary Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Program for the episode Musk hosted.<\/p>\n Runner up: Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s July Fourth tweet<\/strong><\/p>\n The Meta CEO released a lot of questionable video content this year, but his Fourth of July post<\/a>, which showed him holding an American flag while riding a hydrofoil surfboard as John Denver\u2019s \u201cTake Me Home, Country Roads\u201d played, probably takes the cake as the cringiest.<\/p>\n Runner up: The \u201cfamily photo\u201d from the G-7<\/strong><\/p>\n This year\u2019s group photo from the G-7 summit in Cornwall, England, in June would have made Tyra Banks lose her mind. Top world leaders posed awkwardly before a 3-day meeting in which they discussed pressing topics like the Covid economic recovery and fighting climate change. It was also Biden\u2019s first summit abroad as president.\u2014MM<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n