Doge (pronounced: dough-j or daw-gee) is an Internet Meme that became popular in 2013.

The meme typically consists of a picture of a Shiba Inu dog, often with colorful text written in Comic Sans in the foreground.

The text is deliberately written in broken English, following the format of "such x", "many x", "very x" and "so x". The word "wow" is often used in the meme.

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The meme's origin has been much traced back to the Shiba Confessions Tumblr blog.

Pictures on the blog have an extremely similar theme and look to Doge images.

The Shiba Confessions blog, and later the actual Doge meme, have both been covered on BuzzFeed.

^[7]However, the use of the misspelled "doge" dates back to June 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of Homestar Runner’s puppet series.

In August 2013, images of the meme were spammed on Reddit by 4chan's random imageboard, /b/.

^[3]A search of the term doge on Google Trends shows an explosion of popularity occurring in October 2013, and more so in the following month.

By November 2013, the meme had become widespread on the internet.

Google later created a Doge easter egg when doge meme was entered into the YouTube search bar.

^[9]The meme was ranked #12 on MTV's list of "50 Things Pop Culture Had Us Giving Thanks For" in 2013.

^[10] io9 compared the internal dialog of the Shiba Inu dogs to Lolcat-speak.

^[13]The image most commonly associated with the meme is of a female Shiba Inu named Kabosu, taken from a blog documenting the dog's daily activities.

The spelling of doge has several variants, leading to debate on its actual pronunciation.

^[8]On December 13, Doge was declared Know Your Meme's "top meme for 2013" by NBC News.

In July a page for Doge was added to Know Your Meme.

In December 2013, the Dogecoin was introduced as a new cryptocurrency, making it the first Cryptocurrency to be based on an Internet meme, a viral phenomenon which, along with the usage of comic sans, gave it "the Internet density of a large star", Quinn Norton in a Medium article.

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