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 ...

Magazine and Reach PLC magazines. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Kabosu, the famous Japanese shiba inu dog behind the viral "doge" internet meme, has died at the age of 18. The canine ...

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 ...