Doge It's a slang term used to refer to a dog, I think everyone knows that. Around 2013, funny images started appearing with monologues and funny, serious, sarcastic captions... written in various colors using the Comic Sans font. Thus arose the famous term Doge and a viral swarm of funny memes related to these dogs of the breed. Shiba Inu.
For those who don't know, a Shiba Inu is a Japanese breed of dog that is quite bold, independent, and full of self-confidence. The term used in the meme seems to have first appeared on June 24, 2005, in a puppet show called Homestar Runner. In the episode "Biz Cas Fri 1", Homestar calls Strong Bad his "doge".
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How did the doge meme come about and spread?
We know how the word doge originated, now we need to understand how the Shiba Inu fits into this story and how it spread. It all started on February 23, 2010, when the teacher, Atsuko Sato, from a kindergarten in Japan, posted several photos of her dog named Kabosu on her personal blog. The photo that stood out and went viral featured the dog sitting on a couch while looking sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows.
In 2013, another dog of the same breed named Suki, from photographer Jonathan Fleming, went viral and gave strength to the meme. Everything started to spread in 2010 when the photo of Kabosu was uploaded to reddit with the title LMBO LOOK @ THIS FUKKIN DOGE. On tumblr, the term gained more traction when a user posted an audio from a game about finding doge. The audio received 33,000 notes in July 2013. Thus, a blog called YourDailyDoge was created, battle Pokemon videos were uploaded, and soon after, several people began sharing photos of dogs in different outfits on 4chan.
Curiosities involving doge
The truth is that several memes and funny images involving dogs have received the title of doge. Even a subreddit was created for sharing photos of Shiba Inu. Companies created patents, several memes were created involving not only comedies but diverse monologues and even politics. Below we will see some curiosities involving this meme:
- They even created a bitcoin-like currency called Dogecoin;
- a little joke of April first says the original dog died and tricked everyone, reverberating the net;
- Even politicians and famous people started posting photos with the appearance of doge and with their monologues;
- Youtube implemented an easter egg coloring the fonts of the site when searching for doge meme. The meme still works, try it out;
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