The Evolution of Doge
Who is Doge?
we all know him, we all love him, but who is he???
well “he” is actually a “she” and her name is Kabosu. yeah that’s right, Doge is a woman, a very successful woman at that. but how did Kabosu become the most successful animal meme in history???
Kabosu’s owner posted some photos of Kabosu on her personal blog, somehow these images were found by redditors… and within months, Doge memes were popping up all over the internet.
A Complete Doge Timeline
Atsuko Sato posts several pictures of her resued Shiba Inu dog, Kabosu, to her personal blog.
Months later, a redditor posted the very first doge meme.
Software engineers Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer create Dogecoin, a satirical alternative to other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
The superior version of the game 2048, called "Doge 2048" came out in 2014. This game has no numbers, only different doge memes in place of numbers. When you score points, little doge language encouragements pop off the screen at you.
In the late 2010s, Doge re-enters the meme scene with ironic doge memes, which exploded on reddit. These memes feature Doge in strange circumstances, usually photoshopped into unlikely scenes.
On Know Your Meme’s “Meme of the Decade” poll for the top 50 memes of the 2010s, thousands of participants ultimately chose Doge as the winner, beating out other notable icons such as Pepe the Frog, Robbie Rotten and Hide the Pain Harold, with nearly a quarter of the total votes cast.
"Doge to the moon" is a phrase popularized by the Dogecoin cryptocurrency community to express extreme price increases and is also the name of a planned SpaceX mission, DOGE-1, that is being funded and paid for entirely with Dogecoin. The mission is designed to demonstrate the use of cryptocurrency beyond Earth's orbit and has been delayed several times. Recently, Elon Musk referenced the mission, saying, "It's time," sparking renewed interest in the phrase and the coin's price.
Doge memes remain popular to this day. The Reddit community /r/dogeLore has over 300,000 members and continues to breathe life into the Doge meme every single day.