Kabosu, the rescue Shiba Inu dog in Japan that inspired the iconic ¡°Doge¡± meme, turned 16 this week. The meme, widely shared on the internet, inspired the Dogecoin cryptocurrency.
A rescue dog adopted in 2008, Kabosu¡¯s rise to fame began in 2010 when she was 5-years-old and her owner did an impromptu photoshoot capturing her childish caprice. The canine lives with its paw-parents and feline sibling, going on regular adventures and presenting the world with travel and style goals.
The post garnered thousands of comments and has over 85,000 likes.?
The online popularity of the ¡°Doge¡± rose to crazy heights, becoming a viral meme that ended up on t-shirts, mugs, easter eggs and even on a racing car. The meme eventually inspired a cryptocurrency.?
Cryptocurrency Dogecoin, pronounced dohj-coin, was created in 2014 by two software engineers. In 2013, Jackson Palmer, then an employee at Adobe, made a satirical tweet about investing in ¡°Dogecoin¡±, his joke cryptocurrency. He did not actually think people would do it. Palmer had tied up with Billy Markus, an IBM developer, to create the cryptocurrency.?
This year Dogecoin became the most expensive meme NFT ever sold.