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Kabosu is a Shiba Inu whose owner, Atsuko Sato, posted a photograph of her in a 2010 blog post. That image became the basis for the Doge internet meme, which Know Your Meme named the top meme of 2013. Kabosu died of leukemia on the 24th of May 2024, at the age of 18.
Doge is an internet meme featuring a Shiba Inu dog accompanied by multicolored Comic Sans text representing a broken-English internal monologue. The text relies on five modifiers, "so", "such", "many", "much", and "very", paired deliberately with words they cannot correctly modify, and often ends with the word "wow".
Online searches for the Doge meme began rising sharply in July 2013, and the meme peaked in popularity in 2014. Know Your Meme named it the top meme of 2013, and it won a Webby Award for meme of the year in 2014.
Dogecoin is a cryptocurrency launched in December 2013, making it the first cryptocurrency based on an internet meme. In April 2014, the Dogecoin community sponsored NASCAR driver Josh Wise and placed the Shiba Inu image on his racing vehicle.
NAFO, or the North Atlantic Fella Organization, is an online group that emerged during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It uses Doge imagery to counter Russian propaganda, post pro-Ukraine memes, and raise funds for the Ukrainian military.
Both Evan McMurry of ABC News and Stacey Ritzen of The Daily Dot independently ranked Doge the number-one meme of the 2010s. A December 2019 poll by The Tab gave it 737 votes, or 22 percent of all votes cast, naming it the best internet meme of the decade.