Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog in Japan that inspired the Doge meme, turned 16 this week. The Shiba Inu (SHIB) dog named Kabosu became famous in 2010 when her owner Atsuko Sato began blogging about the rescue dog. She also posted many photographs of the rescue dog, which got huge popularity on Instagram. In the same year, a Reddit user coined the word “Doge” by captioning one of the photos of Kabosu. “LMBO LOOK @ THIS [expletive] DOGE,” the user wrote. The meme eventually inspired a cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE). “Never in a million years would I have imagined the impact that my photoshoot of Kabosu would have on the internet,” her owner wrote on Instagram in 2010. “It’s a moment that’s evolved and taken on a life of its own over the last decade—being shared millions of times and creating an entire community around the Doge meme,” she mentioned. Last …
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