ОП, ты только что из вконтактика прибыл?
Расскажу свою историю. Сразу предупреждаю, она связана с моим очком, но не про то, как меня сношали на зоне, а несколько другое. Итак.
Случилось это под Новый год. Я работаю в торговом центре, который на праздники просто битком забит разного рода хомячьем, снующим туда-сюда между павильонами. В основном я помогаю блондинкам на кассе разобраться с подвиснувшими компами, но вообще работа состоит в том, чтобы консультировать людей по вопросам покупки оборудования.
Стою я так на верхнем этаже возле своего павильона, смотрю на пробегающий снизу народ, от нечего делать считаю сперва людей в красных куртках, потом в синих, потом всех, у кого меховые шапки...
И тут вдруг начинаются первые тревожные позывы: сперва живот негодующе булькнул, а потом уже явственно подступает дерьмо к жопе. Странно, я же вроде ничего такого не ел, но факт, что приспичило посрать. Ладно, думаю, зайду в туалет, а то обделаюсь прямо во время рабочего часа. Иду в туалетную комнату на первом этаже, где находятся унитазы, а там закрыто! И никого рядом, все уже ушли.
Никогда не понимал этих ебучих советских уборщиц, которые уходят и запирают уборную на ключ, вот зачем так делать? Неужели даже условия по обеспечению комфортного труда для социальных работников не предусматривают запрет на подобные действия? Бегу на другой конец ТЦ и там тоже всё заперто.
Пиздец, что творится. Смотрю по сторонам. Появилась мысль насрать в подсобке, да мне ещё здесь работать. Спалят - выгонят или по шее надают. Говно между тем проходит стадию брожения и всё сильнее заявляет о своем существовании.
Рассудив, что после праздников всем будет похуй, что я ушел с работы раньше положенного, закрываю павильон, хватаю пальто из каморки и выбегаю на улицу.
Пока шел быстрым шагом до автобуса, внутри вроде чуть-чуть успокоилось, я даже подумал, не вернуться ли обратно и не закончить ли смену, чтобы всё-таки не получить нагоняй. Но как только я подошел к остановке, говно взыграло во мне с новой силой, возможно, оно было радо видеть продавца Вову, высовывавшего свою радостную небритую рожу из ларька с шаурмой.
Я сел на скамейку и стал ждать. Автобус прикатил через 10 минут, но они показались мне вечностью, умноженной на миллиард световых лет. Никогда я еще не был так сосредоточен, как сейчас.
Говно постепенно пробиралось в мой разум и захватывало его: пока я смотрел по сторонам, я видел не улицу, а места, куда можно насрать и отвести душу. Вот хорошая, глубокая урна; вон там идёт тетенька с большой сумкой, ну и наконец, лаваши продавца Вовы тоже ничего.
Сев в автобус, я забился на самое дальнее сиденье и как можно плотнее прижал жопу к нему. До моего дома оставалось где-то минут 15-20 езды и я, собрав всю волю в анал, решил во что бы то не стало помешать коричневому мамонту пробиться наружу. В животе тем временем начинался Большой взрыв с последующим расширением говнистой вселенной.
Пассажиры, похоже, чувствовали зловещую ауру, витавшую вокруг меня, или их просто пугало моё красное взмокшее лицо, полное страданий, но впереди вскоре образовался полукруг из пустых сидений, так что я мог пока выдохнуть и насладиться видом за окном. Я немного замечтался, поэтому вместо заснеженных улиц мне виделись белые плиты на полу магазина стройматериалов и фаянсовые унитазы.
Выходя из автобуса, я едва не насрал себе в руку, чтобы расплатиться с водителем, но вовремя спохватившись, сунул ему мелочь и выскочил оттуда. Говно уже почти поработило меня; я даже замечал, как всё вокруг теряет привычные краски и приобретает бело-коричневый оттенок. Плюс ко всему, уже и живот распирало настолько, будто там образовалась мини-галактика. Нужно было срочно что-то делать.
Бегу к дому, уже выхватываю ключи, и тут блять, чей-то голос по имени окликает. Оборачиваюсь, там ковыляет знакомая бабулька. Подходит и начинает тереть что-то за жизнь, я даже не знаю что, уже не в силах слушать. Мямлю ей в ответ нечто вроде "Извините, но мне домой пора, с наступающим", как третьеклассник, подбегаю к подъезду, рывком открываю тяжеленную, сука, дверь и забегаю внутрь. Теперь бы только до квартиры дойти. Говно в животе и в анусе уже эволюционировало в govno sapiens, изобрело пушки и мортиры и бомбит стенки моего кишечника, размахивая флагами революции.
Вот наконец и дверь. Дрожащими, мокрыми руками, вынимаю ключи, с пятого-шестого раза попадаю в замочную скважину и вот я у финиша!!!
Забегаю в туалет, снимаю штаны и...боже, вот тут что началось. Сперва я высрал здание Кремля, потом Биг-бен и Эмпайр стейт билдинг. Пару деревенек с африканскими крестьянами. Аэропорт "Говнодедово" и весь авиапарк. Каких-то людей с табличками "Спасите китов" и "Откажись от оружия", двух породистых собачек породы "Ньюфаундленд" и японский эсминец...
Я срал и понимал, что даю начало новой вселенной, за те 40 минут, что я держал всё это внутри, я успел зародить в себе столько, сколько не сделают многие люди за всю жизнь.
Последним я высрал щербатую дверь и пожилого лысеющего мужчину. Смывать не стал, вышел и закрыл за собой дверь туалета. Зайду сюда чуть позже, узнаю, как живется моим новым творениям в этом созданном с нуля мире.
Случилось это под Новый год. Я работаю в торговом центре, который на праздники просто битком забит разного рода хомячьем, снующим туда-сюда между павильонами. В основном я помогаю блондинкам на кассе разобраться с подвиснувшими компами, но вообще работа состоит в том, чтобы консультировать людей по вопросам покупки оборудования.
Стою я так на верхнем этаже возле своего павильона, смотрю на пробегающий снизу народ, от нечего делать считаю сперва людей в красных куртках, потом в синих, потом всех, у кого меховые шапки...
И тут вдруг начинаются первые тревожные позывы: сперва живот негодующе булькнул, а потом уже явственно подступает дерьмо к жопе. Странно, я же вроде ничего такого не ел, но факт, что приспичило посрать. Ладно, думаю, зайду в туалет, а то обделаюсь прямо во время рабочего часа. Иду в туалетную комнату на первом этаже, где находятся унитазы, а там закрыто! И никого рядом, все уже ушли.
Никогда не понимал этих ебучих советских уборщиц, которые уходят и запирают уборную на ключ, вот зачем так делать? Неужели даже условия по обеспечению комфортного труда для социальных работников не предусматривают запрет на подобные действия? Бегу на другой конец ТЦ и там тоже всё заперто.
Пиздец, что творится. Смотрю по сторонам. Появилась мысль насрать в подсобке, да мне ещё здесь работать. Спалят - выгонят или по шее надают. Говно между тем проходит стадию брожения и всё сильнее заявляет о своем существовании.
Рассудив, что после праздников всем будет похуй, что я ушел с работы раньше положенного, закрываю павильон, хватаю пальто из каморки и выбегаю на улицу.
Пока шел быстрым шагом до автобуса, внутри вроде чуть-чуть успокоилось, я даже подумал, не вернуться ли обратно и не закончить ли смену, чтобы всё-таки не получить нагоняй. Но как только я подошел к остановке, говно взыграло во мне с новой силой, возможно, оно было радо видеть продавца Вову, высовывавшего свою радостную небритую рожу из ларька с шаурмой.
Я сел на скамейку и стал ждать. Автобус прикатил через 10 минут, но они показались мне вечностью, умноженной на миллиард световых лет. Никогда я еще не был так сосредоточен, как сейчас.
Говно постепенно пробиралось в мой разум и захватывало его: пока я смотрел по сторонам, я видел не улицу, а места, куда можно насрать и отвести душу. Вот хорошая, глубокая урна; вон там идёт тетенька с большой сумкой, ну и наконец, лаваши продавца Вовы тоже ничего.
Сев в автобус, я забился на самое дальнее сиденье и как можно плотнее прижал жопу к нему. До моего дома оставалось где-то минут 15-20 езды и я, собрав всю волю в анал, решил во что бы то не стало помешать коричневому мамонту пробиться наружу. В животе тем временем начинался Большой взрыв с последующим расширением говнистой вселенной.
Пассажиры, похоже, чувствовали зловещую ауру, витавшую вокруг меня, или их просто пугало моё красное взмокшее лицо, полное страданий, но впереди вскоре образовался полукруг из пустых сидений, так что я мог пока выдохнуть и насладиться видом за окном. Я немного замечтался, поэтому вместо заснеженных улиц мне виделись белые плиты на полу магазина стройматериалов и фаянсовые унитазы.
Выходя из автобуса, я едва не насрал себе в руку, чтобы расплатиться с водителем, но вовремя спохватившись, сунул ему мелочь и выскочил оттуда. Говно уже почти поработило меня; я даже замечал, как всё вокруг теряет привычные краски и приобретает бело-коричневый оттенок. Плюс ко всему, уже и живот распирало настолько, будто там образовалась мини-галактика. Нужно было срочно что-то делать.
Бегу к дому, уже выхватываю ключи, и тут блять, чей-то голос по имени окликает. Оборачиваюсь, там ковыляет знакомая бабулька. Подходит и начинает тереть что-то за жизнь, я даже не знаю что, уже не в силах слушать. Мямлю ей в ответ нечто вроде "Извините, но мне домой пора, с наступающим", как третьеклассник, подбегаю к подъезду, рывком открываю тяжеленную, сука, дверь и забегаю внутрь. Теперь бы только до квартиры дойти. Говно в животе и в анусе уже эволюционировало в govno sapiens, изобрело пушки и мортиры и бомбит стенки моего кишечника, размахивая флагами революции.
Вот наконец и дверь. Дрожащими, мокрыми руками, вынимаю ключи, с пятого-шестого раза попадаю в замочную скважину и вот я у финиша!!!
Забегаю в туалет, снимаю штаны и...боже, вот тут что началось. Сперва я высрал здание Кремля, потом Биг-бен и Эмпайр стейт билдинг. Пару деревенек с африканскими крестьянами. Аэропорт "Говнодедово" и весь авиапарк. Каких-то людей с табличками "Спасите китов" и "Откажись от оружия", двух породистых собачек породы "Ньюфаундленд" и японский эсминец...
Я срал и понимал, что даю начало новой вселенной, за те 40 минут, что я держал всё это внутри, я успел зародить в себе столько, сколько не сделают многие люди за всю жизнь.
Последним я высрал щербатую дверь и пожилого лысеющего мужчину. Смывать не стал, вышел и закрыл за собой дверь туалета. Зайду сюда чуть позже, узнаю, как живется моим новым творениям в этом созданном с нуля мире.
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YES
Судя по лайкам это известный паблик, там без /пораши ничего не обходится.
Puknul
Посоны, реквестирую пикчу, часто тут проскальзывает: там скрин поста на форуме, в котором мамка пишет как отсасывает грудному сыну когда замечает у него младенческую эрекцию.
Блядь, каждый раз как в первый.
срочно пошутите про коэффициент шредингера )))0)))
Олег не Олег?
Не пали годноту быдлу.
Сажи дауну.
Мут круче. Это и без фоток понятно.
Сорокин, заебал.
годная паста
Комментарий
Комментарий
Яннп
Всякий раз проигрываю с тупого ебла. Этот бы у меня под столом жил.
Она не могла такого сказать!
Теперь я понимаю, почему Энакин её трахал.
Да Энакин и собаку бы трахнул.
чет не очень))
Да собаку и ты бы трахнул.
Не трахнул бы.
А где критический разбор этой пикчи?
ОСВЯТИЛ
пропержено
Силой взял.
Сто тысяч Паскалей входят в бар.
МХК ПОЙМЕТ)))))))))))))))))))))))
это же стендапы от ржумена!!
Это кун, или тян?
Была версия, где все ошибки обведены на самой картинке.
Да.
Проиграл.
Ебаный комикон 2015, стенд ведьмака детектед
Лоооооооол. Подливень попал, ахаха
Что-то обосрался буквально :(
Фу, бля, это же инцест
Всплакнул
В чем суть?
Поясните за пик4у.
П0яснил т3б3 3а щ3ку
С ебаного блазера так голова трещит, что дэниелсу и не снилось. Еще у меня от него ухо глохло. Натурально, выпил блазера, проспался, ухо не слышит.
Такое ощущение будто я видел все эти пикчи в такой же последовательности ранее.
Рукобляди сосут у Протезобогов опять
Что-то холодно стало на сердце, пускай конец немного и предсказуем
Не траль, все кнопки в ряд под двойкой не работают из-за 4ая.
Пиздец.
Напьются своего блейзера, а потом всю ночь Стигмату в наушниках на полной слушают, да наутро жалуются, что глохнут, блядь!
Я иногда распаковываю свой пак.
Не делай так больше.
Да хуй там был, ничего такого я не слушал. Это продукты распада блазера на звуковой нерв действовали.
Тогда пости свои пикчи. Иначе я продолжу.
бля не то
А откуда это?
Проиграл с четвертой.
Дохуя раз видел эту пикчу, только сейчас понял.
Собаку трахнул бы и ты.
Должна была выйти игора, но проект забросили.
Внезапно обосрался с дуры, которая всю жижку разлила.
соус
Фейк жи.
Внимание на давность второго коммента
С 4 проиграл.
В чём юмор второй пикчи?
Valve
Мороженое со сгущенкой
Ебать, с какими же кончеными дегенератами я сижу на одной борде... А на то, что лайков на первой тоже всего 9, тебе, конечно же, похуй?
А я думал, это колбасный сыр
А я подумал, что это собака.
Проигрываю раз за разом, как ненормальный.
>шрифтом Брайля
спортивные очки изящный силуэт тонкая оправа в них я дискоэстет
Трахнул бы её?
>это колбасный сыр
В смысле?
Лол меня на дваче запостили
Лол, на второй подумал сначала, что там 2 пизды.
Типа разрезанный батон колбасного сыра
А я подумал короче что собаку убили))))))))
Выиграл.
Действительно, бро, с дегенератами тебе подстать: я про третий пик.
Читер ебаный.
На втором видно норм пацанчика. Трахнет её на первом свидании.
А я везде что-то неприличное увидел)))
Может превышать, может и нет, может скафандр.
Успех уровня /b. Скажи спасибо что Абу борду проебал и тебя не затравят.
Абу благословил этот пост.
Зашёл медведь в бар, там коэфицент Шрёдингера, одел на голову а он как раз.
Этим коэффициентом был Альберт Эйнштейн.
Ахахах, но над мамой шутить не наадо
ЧТО С ОЛОЛОШЕМ ТО СТАЛО?
Сколько тебе годиков, проебщик?
Ставь лайк - узнаешь))))
Двачую - 1 RRRAGE - 0
Ололоша пошёл на перемене нюхать клей и умер.
Лепра
Мои друзья-сверстники ждут ребёнка.
Я жду седьмой эпизод звёздных войн.
Мои друзья-сверстники ждут ребёнка.
Я жду седьмой эпизод звёздных войн.
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32(((((
механикус вьеби wd40 и расслабься
жил там рядом
Это Суздаль?
третья фейк?
26 минут назад. Что не так?
Кострома
А перегрев и в правду будет, переносящей среды-то нет
Верхушка цифры подтерта
Только сейчас обратил внимание на двести лайков за 4 секунды.
с 3го пика проорал
Опять ты это написал...
Спасибо тебе, анон.
Спрятал свое блатное лицо.
Годнота, она еще существует
%прослезился%
А что на второй пикче не так?
Обосрался легонько.
Реквестирую гифку, где маленькую девочку насилуют гопники, потом насилует офисный работник, а потом убивает маньяк. Спустя время гопники доебываются до офисного работника, а маньяк врезается в них на грузовике и гибнет. Потом на дороге видны следы призрака девочки.
штоблядь
Двачую твой реквест
Умножаю, давно не было
Разве пони это смешно?
в /sn/ никого нет.
пишу сюда: КРИПИИСТОРИЯ С ПРУФОМ:
Ладно, плевать, напишу так.
Собственно, я уже создавал тред в сначе, но он забылся и всем bilo pohui, когда история реально неописуема и реальна, даже с пруфами.
Так вот: сижу я как-то дома со своей девчушкой и вдруг захотелось взглянуть в окошко с балкона (живу в доме в селе близ кавказских гор)
А на улице идет дождик, уже вечер, все хорошо и чудесно, but на горе, которая находится прям передо мной в метрах семиста, полыхает множество-множество огоньков. Отпадает пожар, поскольку идет дождь, также отпадают и туристы или просто холмолазы, поскольку огни не мерцают и их очень много. Так вот мы с девчушкой жутко удивились и решили запечатлеть сию странную хуету.
НЛО, американское правительство или игил? что это?
пикрелейтед - огоньки. стартуем обсуждение. да, я такой важный, потому что у меня есть пруфы.
пишу сюда: КРИПИИСТОРИЯ С ПРУФОМ:
Ладно, плевать, напишу так.
Собственно, я уже создавал тред в сначе, но он забылся и всем bilo pohui, когда история реально неописуема и реальна, даже с пруфами.
Так вот: сижу я как-то дома со своей девчушкой и вдруг захотелось взглянуть в окошко с балкона (живу в доме в селе близ кавказских гор)
А на улице идет дождик, уже вечер, все хорошо и чудесно, but на горе, которая находится прям передо мной в метрах семиста, полыхает множество-множество огоньков. Отпадает пожар, поскольку идет дождь, также отпадают и туристы или просто холмолазы, поскольку огни не мерцают и их очень много. Так вот мы с девчушкой жутко удивились и решили запечатлеть сию странную хуету.
НЛО, американское правительство или игил? что это?
пикрелейтед - огоньки. стартуем обсуждение. да, я такой важный, потому что у меня есть пруфы.
ой, блять, не туда, сука
Проиграл.
Не святотатствуй)
Коллекционное издание titanfall
Хуй
а куда? хочу почитать обсуждение
ОПхуй, почему я за тебя бампаю твой тред?
И сразу репорт ватуника-фантазёра
Сука у меня тян такая, проиграно
семён не палится тут никого нет, долбоёб
>тян
ну дааааа
Проиграл адово, например.
сижу тут 4 года
Бля, тут много у кого есть тни, просто на такой стереотип из за того что многие любят понять ОХ У МЕНЯ НЕТ ТЯНКИ ПЛАК ПЛАК
в вакууме температура кипения\плавния снижается, вода кипит чуть ли не при 60градусах
новый нью фаг в этом itt in this thread треде
но я тут 3 года(
Про что, про что там??????
лол
шутки нет, так как боинга не было
а я еще помню те тренды, когда вообще никто не верил, что у кого то здесь тян
наверное раз в месяц кто то рапортовал об этом
а еще все верили, да и я тоже, что если перестанешь быть девственником, то на двач не зайти будет
Я действительно в голос серанул от названия треда
Варенье из фейхоа классное получается
Ебать, а что по субботам школы нет? Хули ночью в пятницу школозасмеялсяобосрался такой убогий?
сука, сажа отклеилась.
Тебе то откуда знать
>маааам тут постят нисмишное ну мааааам
либо неси смешное либо уёбывай
все цвета неправильно подписаны
собака у тебя за щекой, проверь
это_значит_что_ты_пидор.жпг
Нимагу! Вчера мутил аналогичный тред и все козыри истратил.
Травоядные животные тоже "веганы", но пьют молоко в раннем возрасте, так что не показатель.
блядь! тред с хуйнёй из вк, приняли за нормальный тред! что с вами?
молоко = сперма ? Ты идиот?
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge

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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge

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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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About
Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Doge is a slang term for “dog” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on Tumblr. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned withinterior monologues in Comic Sans font.
Origin
The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”[2], Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.

Identity
On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.[38] Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).



In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge[39] published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the scarfed dog portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.
Spread
On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit[3] with the title “LMBO LOOK @ THISFUKKIN DOGE,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches[15] uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head[16] and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.
leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ… from dailydoge

In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge[17] was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a fake Pokemon battle.[4] By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/[11](Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi[14] referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge[13], launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr Shiba Confessions, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”[18]



In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.[6] The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger[5] with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge[7] was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge[9] was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge[12], launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread[19] was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.

On November 20, 2013, Youtube implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.[22]
4chan’s /r/Murica Raid
On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on4chan raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum/r/Murica[20], flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report[21], the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.



Trademark Controversy
On June 24th, 2014, the California-based gaming accessory company filed to trademark “Doge” with the United States patent office to sell card boxes and playing card covers with Kabosu’s likeness on the front. On June 23rd, The Daily Dot published an article about the trademark filing, which included a statement from Ultra PRO General Manager Jay Kuo who claimed the trademark was filed to protect the company from being sued and that they would allow “royalty-free use for any vendor who wishes to use the mark.” The article also contained a statement by Intellectual Property Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation Corynne McSherry, who noted that the filing is problematic because it attempts to trademark the entire word, not just a stylized version of it.
Notable Examples
On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag[10] often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to Starecat.






Dogecoin
On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoinintroduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the Bitcoin boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.



Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.



Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).

As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (DOGE) is worth about $ 0.0002 USD, with the market capitalization of $1.45 millionUSD and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.

Political Examples
Several Republican politicians have highlighted Doge-style image macros on their Twitter feeds. On December 23rd, 2013, Congressional Representatives Steve Stockman and Thomas Massie posted political Doge image macros (shown below).


On June 9th, 2014, the official Republican National Committee Twitter feed posted a Doge image macro mocking Bill and Hillary Clinton. The same day, the official Democratic Party Twitter feed replied to the tweet mocking the use of Doge as being “as dated as your policies” (shown below).


Search Interest
Search interest for the word “doge”[1] is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.
External References
[1] Wikipedia – Doge
[2] Homestar Runner Wiki – Biz Caz Fri 1
[3] Reddit – /r/ads: LMBO LOOK @THIS FUKKEN DOGE
[4] YouTube – You have encountered A D O G E
[5] Cheezburger – schnauze / 12/08/2012
[6] Reddit – /r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge / 12/24/2012
[7] Reddit – /r/doge / 01/08/2013
[8] Reddit – /r/trees: Snope Doge / 01/17/2013
[9] Reddit – /r/dailydoge05/16/2013
[10] Tumblr – Posts tagged “doge”
[11] Foolz Archive – Meet Doge / 06/16/2012
[12] Tumblr – shibe-doge
[13] Tumblr – fuckyeahdoge
[14] Tumblr – airpi: A POLITE DOGEhas approached you 06/24/2012
[15] Tumblr – leonsumbitches
[16] Your Daily Doge – Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post
[17] Tumblr – Your Daily Doge
[18] Tumblr – Posts Tagged “shibe”
[19] 4chan – /s4s/: le sticky doge
[20] Reddit – /r/Murica – Murica! Fuck Yeah!
[21] The Daily Dot – 4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus
[22] Google Operating System –YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme
[23] Bitcoin Talk Forum – [ANN][DOGE] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released
[24] Dogecoin.com – Dogecoin
[25] Twitter – @Dogecoin’s Tweets
[26] Facebook – Dogecoin
[27] Wikipedia – Dogecoin
[28] Doge Coin Official Forum –Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?
[29] Reddit – /r/dogecoin
[30] Coin Marketcap – DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph
[31] Doge Coin Official Forum – "[INFO] Current Average Value ofDOGE":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html
[32] Slashgear – Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair
[33] Geek.com – Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet
[34] Geekosystem – Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing
[35] Dogecoin Forum – Dogewallet hacked!
[36] The Verge – Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack
[37] Reddit – Dogewallet Explanation
[38] Exblog – Kabosu112
[39] The Verge – Wow this Doge
[40] United States Patent and Trademark Office – Doge
[41] The Daily Dot – Doge Trademark Ultra PRO
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Спасибо за помощь!
чо правда у дрозда яйца зелёные?
Пукнул с третьей
Ну что не так с зеленым чаем? =((
Поздно. Открыл себе доступ.
мочератор блять, ты бы не цп удалял а этот спам
Ну и идите нахуй.
Это ты иди нахуй, и "смешные" скрины из вк с собой забери
вак
Та же хуйня, братан.
без баянов