#Kabosumama

[octomint]

Today, Kabosu the doge passed away, march 24th 2024. Thank you Kabosu for being one of the beautiful dogs who defined my youth and an entire generation, loved by many. Much love and condolences to Kabosu’s mama.

[probablymoons]

Hey everyone, Kabosu the shiba inu (aka Doge) is not doing well :( Here is a translation of the caption:

Kabo-chan is said to be in a very dangerous condition now. But I'm sure it will be fine. Absolutely fine. I am receiving power from all over the world! Thank you everyone.

[beardedmrbean]

Kabosumama

[olivewithablog]

Going Upstream with Doge

For this week's assignment, I decided to research one of my favorite memes on the Internet: Doge! As most people know, the Doge meme has evolved into quite the trend, especially after the Crypto currency "Dogecoin" hit its peak in 2021. Being a dog lover, I've just always been fond of the funny-looking Shiba Inu's face and occasionally wondered where the picture originated from.

I began my investigating by simply Google searching "Doge". As expected, many different versions of the meme appeared, but I chose to click on one of the very first options, which was the original, unedited image. This image was posted to a news outlet named CNET, who published an article called "The Shiba Inu dog behind the doge meme turns 16".

After reading CNET's article, I learned that Doge's real name is Kabosu! She is currently 17 years old and lives in Japan with her owners, who run an Instagram page called @kabosumama. By using this information, I researched further into the social media pages of Kabosu, in hopes of finding the original post. Eventually, I ended up on Wikipedia's page for Doge, which stated that Kabosu's owners also run a blog, which is where the original, unedited picture was first published.

Upon scrolling through owner, Atsuko Sato's online blog, you can view hundreds of adorable photos of Kabosu and her cat! What I found super interesting is that Atsuko obviously understands how much the Internet loves her dog, so she created a "History" tab on this blog, where you can view a timeline of photos posted all the way back to 2010. Atsuko's only current upload of the original "Doge" image was last posted on January 4th, 2014, which is 4 years after the picture went viral. It is uncertain as to what happened to the very initial post, which allowed the sharing of Kabosu to go viral on Reddit. On her 01/04/2014 blog post, Atsuko stated "This photo of Kabosu was used as a meme. The meme is apparently called "Doge"". Throughout this blog, thousands of images can be seen that prove Atsuko of being the rightful owner of Kabosu and has frequently expressed her attention towards the viral meme through captions and photographs. Below are two of my favorite pictures that I screenshotted from Kabosu's official Instagram page!

Atsuko Sato's Blog: https://kabochan.blog.jp/archives/9749389.html

Kabosu's Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/kabosumama/

[crypto-badger]

Ginkgo | Doge & Neiro Cat Brother

Meet Ginkgo, the cute feline member of the Kabosu family. Found curled up at the entrance of the Kabosu household, he was injured and hungry, but there was nothing particularly wrong with him. After countless failed attempts of finding the owner he was adopted by kabosumama. He became part of the family in November 2011. He is described as very gentle, very clingy, and very gluttonous.

$GINKGO is the official Gingko token dedicated to just him.

Chart : https://www.dextools.io/app/en/ether/pair-explorer/0x43c00e8c818363df59221e3e7eca6a79f5eb3f09?t=1726844924253

Telegram: https://t.me/Ginkgoethcoin X: https://x.com/Ginkgoethcoin Website: https://ginkgocateth.com/

[allthenewzworld]

Owners of the original Doge meme dog have welcomed a new Shiba Inu puppy into their family🐾❤️

(📸 by @kabosumama)

[theavenuebox]

The dog behind the famous ‘Doge’ meme has been diagnosed with leukemia and liver...

The dog behind the famous ‘Doge’ meme has been diagnosed with leukemia and liver…

The dog behind the famous ‘Doge’ meme has been diagnosed with leukemia and liver disease. The owner took to Instagram to announce this news and since then has been updating followers with Kabosu’s health. Let’s all pray for Kabosu’s recovery 🥺🙏 (Via: @kabosumama) Source

[elsaspants]

Doge dog is 16 today!

[star-wars-hell]

fuck yall for making doge trend I thought she died 😭

[teathattast]

Long Live Doge 🕊

@kabosumama

[cynicaljapanophile]

to anyone that doesn't follow kabosu or better known as doge on instagram this is what you're missing out on

follow kabosu's instagram : kabosumama to feel pure happiness

[bbulbasaurus-rex]

Kabosu's mom posted this on Instagram earlier today

[poop4u]

Kabosumama is turning 16th today! Long live the queen, dogie!

[artdefenses]

→ Absolutely legendary meme culture animals and their official accounts

♡ feel free to add more! ♡

1. Stretched vodka cat

(insta: ganymedeshouse)

2. Mr.Bubz

(insta: misterbubz + mrbubz.com)

3. Thurston the Cat

(insta: thurstonwaffles)

4. Table Cat

(insta: smudge_lord + fb group: smudgeposting + smudge-lord.com)

5. Valiant the Cat

ik he's not a meme, but he's smudge's brother stan him

(insta: valiant.effort)

6. Surprised Shiba

(insta: kabosumama + kabochan.blog.jp)

7. Walter Dog

(insta + tt: puppernelson + puppernelson.redbubble.com)

8. Polite Cat

(insta: polite_cat_olli_official)

9. Angry cat no banana

(insta: angrycatnobanana_)

[kittensnax]

the post about old doge and it’s all desaturated and sad is so heartbreaking, literally all the time people are trying to say that Kabosu died or is dying or something and folks. she has a twitter. go follow @kabosumama on twitter and instagram and get daily updates on doge

[ninalevy]

such doge

much homework

very stress

must scroll

Like most internet memes, I was completely unaware of the Doge meme iceberg, while being slightly annoyed by the tiny bit that my sons kept mentioning.

A couple of years back, every time we passed a smallish, beige-ish dog, we would have to avidly discuss whether that was a ‘doge’ or not. It was finally made clear to me that a doge was a Shiba Inu...maybe. But why was this so so compelling and important?

Again, like all things internet meme, I have read the exhaustive history, but am still sort of befuddled on the real why beyond the obvious “dogs are funny” and “it is amusing to imagine that they speak pidgin English.”

To attempt a brief summary of some bullet points from @knowyourmeme:

🐕The use of the term ‘doge’ for dog dates back to a 2005 puppet show video

🐕Pictures of a particular Shiba Inu were posted on a personal blog by @kabosumama (her present handle on instagram) back in 2010.

🐕The meme spread in various forms and various dogs on Tumblr, Reddit and 4chan from 2010 onwards

🐕In 2013, YouTube inserted a feature that shifted text to brightly colored comic sans font when the search term ‘doge meme’ was used. Many of the doge images feature short words and pidgin phrases superimposed like ‘wow,’ ‘so hip,’ ‘very internet meme,’ ‘such wisdom.

🐕Reports of the original doge’s death in 2017 were a hoax, but were very popular, and no doubt increased the meme’s popularity.

🐕Also in 2017, Dogecoin was introduced as a satirical cryptocurrency. At its height, one Dogecoin was worth $400.80. At last report, they are worth $0.00322634 each.

🐕Enough?

For our part, we have a bit of a history with dogs’ heads on children. (Take that face recognition software.)

And the classic side-eye doge expression seemed appropriate for “That Moment When Your Mom Sees You Scrolling When You Should Be Doing Homework.’