The legendary "Doge" meme from 2010, which portrays a shiba inu dog named Kabosu and inspired the creation of cryptocurrency dogecoin, sold for $4 million as an NFT, or non-fungible token, in June.

Many spinoff memes followed the original meme, the New York Times noted, including photoshopping Kabosu’s face onto a loaf of bread, among other concepts that got more abstract as the years went on.

The $4 million NFT depicting the original Doge meme is set to be fractionalized into ERC-20 Tokens, and auctioned off in pieces. The owner of the Shibu Inu depicted in the beloved meme, Atsuko ...

The dog behind the Doge meme and subsequent Dogecoin turned 16 this week. In this photo illustration, visual representations of digital cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin and Bitcoin are displayed.

A picture of Kabosu from Satō’s blog in 2010 inspired the viral “doge” meme format. The original picture that kicked off the “doge” meme. Image: Satō’s blog.

The meme linked to Kabosu first took off after one photo Sato shared to her blog in 2010, in which the dog appeared to give the camera a playful side-eye, gained popularity on Tumblr and Reddit.

The owner of an internet-famous dog who inspired the “doge” meme says she has received a global outpouring of love since revealing her popular pooch was suffering from leukemia. Kabosu, a 17 ...

The original story is below. The internet-famous dog whose quizzical expression inspired the ‘doge’ meme is very sick with leukemia and liver disease, the dog’s owner said.

An engaged NFT community that holds the original ‘doge’ meme is working with local governments to install an actual statue that pays homage to Kabosu, the dog that inspired the meme. The ...

The humble Doge meme, based on pictures of a cute Shiba Inu dog, was all the rage in 2013. The meme’s quirky use of English syntax was such powerful and much creative, and for a year or so, it ...