This image would become the emblematic Doge meme. The meme’s popularity surged further when a subreddit post in 2012 featured an audio clip of a computer-generated voice interacting with a Doge ...

It all began, of course, with Doge, which was launched as a joke. In 2013, software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer created the world’s first such token, named for the meme about the ...

Three years later, Sato learned from a friend that Kabosu’s photo had become a meme online. Kabosu had been nicknamed “Doge,” a play on the word “dog,” and clothes and purses using her ...