“Grumpy Cat” emerged as a top force in cryptocurrency on Wednesday after a coin dedicated to her saw its price surge by more than 1000 percent in one day.

Total investment in the “Grumpy Cat” coin jumped to more than $50 million as of late Wednesday afternoon after sitting at less than $5 million earlier in the week. Social media users ecstatic over the meteoric rise shared pictures that included the cat going to Mars with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and refusing to buy its most prominent rival, Dogecoin, which Musk has routinely promoted in recent months.

Dogecoin saw its value jump by more than 30 times over the last year, from about $200 million to more than $7.5 billion this week, bolstered by glowing reviews from Musk and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, whose basketball team began accepting it as part of its business.

Organizers associated with the Grumpy Cat currency said some proceeds from the price surge would go to animal aid groups, including $80,000 for the Sterling Animal Shelter in Massachusetts.

This may sound like an internet own more than a win, but these are millions and potentially billions at stake in the crypo market, and with mainstream press following the story on regular news, since the GameStop debacle, it's hitting the public's consciousness like never before. Meme faces or not.

Cherokee Sheriff Frank Reynolds held a press conference Wednesday and told reporters that Robert Aaron Long, the suspected gunman in the horrific, racially-specific killings in Georgia, had a “sexual addiction” and may have frequented the targeted spas in the past.

At one point in the conference, Cherokee police captain Jay Baker described the murderer as being “fed up, at the end of his rope, and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did.”

Among the eight people killed, six of them were Asian women, raising questions about whether this is part of a surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans. The police were widely and harshly criticized online for both the “bad day” comment and for apparently taking his word that he wasn't motivated by race.

On air, CNN's Lisa Ling and The Daily Show's Trevor Noah also took the local officials apart over the disastrous handling and commentary.

But tone-deafness was not the end of Jay Baker's problems. It turns out he has a past online, including having shared on his Facebook page images of T-shirts that featured a biohazard sign above a mock Corona beer logo reading “Covid 19 Imported Virus from Chy-na.”

All around awful performance so far by the sheriff's department.