Doge

Examples

Doge time-travel diagram — doge captioned variant.

Doge time-travel diagram

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Doge time-travel diagram

documented by Know Your Meme.

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Much bipartisanship. Very spending. Wow. — doge captioned variant.

Much bipartisanship. Very spending. Wow.

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Much bipartisanship. Very spending. Wow.

documented by Know Your Meme.

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Mountain Dew white spy — doge captioned variant.

Mountain Dew white spy

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Mountain Dew white spy

documented by Know Your Meme.

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Kabosu on a sofa with a reaching hand and scattered multicoloured captions including “Wow”, “What r you doing”, “so scare”, “Concern”, “r-a-p-e” and “keep ur hands away from me”.

Hands away from Doge

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A wary inner monologue scattered around Kabosu; the captioned version differs from the uncaptioned catalog preview.

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Hearthstone Fel Reaver card screenshot; highlighted flavour text reads “So reaver. Much fel. Wow.”

Even a giant robot speaks Doge

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No Shiba is needed: the clipped rhythm carries the reference on its own. A fearsome mechanical monster gets a tiny, delighted Doge voice. This is an archived game screenshot, not a dog portrait or a newly made caption.

Screenshot/caption uploader TheDerper2; the displayed card credits artists Zoltan & Gabor.

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Shiba being held near nail clippers, captioned “plz no”, “trim 2moro”, “so scare” and “never scratch again”.

The smallest possible request for a postponement

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A routine nail trim becomes a full canine crisis. “Trim 2moro” is the tiny bargaining stage: not never, just any time other than right now. The captions are an imagined monologue, not evidence of what the dog is thinking.

Know Your Meme links a gouryellaharayda Tumblr post as its source.

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Scarf-wearing Shiba against blurred city lights, captioned “indie levl=100”, “no filtr”, “nice scraf”, “so hip” and “such class”.

Very scarf. Such cultural capital.

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The scarf and fashionable background have already done half the work. The scattered self-congratulations finish a portrait of a dog who appears to have a strongly held opinion about coffee.

Underlying photograph of Suki credited to Jonathan Fleming by Know Your Meme’s Doge context article; photo record links awesomephilia as its source.

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About & sources

A Shiba Inu’s sideways glance becomes a field of colorful, fragmentary thoughts. Comic Sans and intentionally unusual grammar make the caption style as recognizable as the dog.

Date

Kabosu photographs: February 13, 2010; selected breakout era: 2013

History

Atsuko Sato posted Kabosu’s photographs to her blog in 2010; the word doge has an earlier history. This exhibit is placed in 2013 for the documented subreddit, themed blogs, and wider circulation of captioned Shiba Inu images.

Know Your Meme — Doge
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