

Several online polls and media outlets recognized Doge as one of the best Internet memes of the 2010s.ĭoge uses two-word phrases in which the first word is almost always one of five modifiers ("so", "such", "many", "much", and "very"), and the departure from correct English is to use the modifier with a word that it cannot properly modify. Toward the end of the decade and the beginning of the 2020s, the meme saw a resurgence in popularity due primarily to its association with Dogecoin, which itself hit a market capitalisation of over $90 billion in May 2021. The Shiba Inu had a notable presence in popular culture during late 2013. A cryptocurrency based on Doge, the Dogecoin, was launched in December 2013. The meme is based on a 2010 photograph, and became popular in late 2013, being named as Know Your Meme 's "top meme" of that year. The text, representing a kind of internal monologue, is deliberately written in a form of broken English. The meme typically consists of a picture of a Shiba Inu dog accompanied by multicolored text in Comic Sans font in the foreground. The original "Doge" inner monologue imageĭoge ( often / ˈ d oʊ dʒ/ DOHJ, / ˈ d oʊ ɡ/ DOHG, / ˈ d oʊ ʒ/ DOHZH ) is an Internet meme that became popular in 2013.
