In a blog post, Kabosu’s owner revealed that they would hold a farewell party for Kabo-chan on Sunday, May 26.
At the end of 2022, Kabosu fell ill with leukaemia and liver disease.
Atsuko Sato along with Kabosu
FROM RESCUED PUPPY TO INTERNET MEME
In 2008, Kabosu was rescued from a puppy mill by a Japanese kindergarten teacher named Atsuko Sato. In 2010, two years after adopting the Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog breed, Sato posted a picture along with Kabosu on her blog. That image became the ‘Doge’ meme.
Speaking to a news agency, Sato once stated, “It felt so strange” to discover her dog was an internet celebrity. The memes use goofy broken English to reveal the inner thoughts of Kabosu.
Dogecoin
DOGECOIN, WORLD’s 8th MOST VALUABLE CRYPTOCURRENCY
Dogecoin was started as a joke by two software engineers and is now the world’s eighth most valuable cryptocurrency with a market cap of $23 billion
Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus told a news agency that he found the idea of investing in Doge crypto coins hilarious and created the Dogecoin coin in a few hours before taking it live
Kabosu, the go-to meme dog for millennials, inspired Elon Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency Dogecoin. Later, Dogecoin was backed by stoner hip-hop king Snoop Dogg, Shark Tank entrepreneur Mark Cuban and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons
Dogecoin has also inspired other cheap and highly volatile memecoins, including – Shiba Inu and others based on dogs, cats
VIRAL PHOTO SOLD FOR $4.2 million
In 2021, Sato sold the viral photo of Kabosu as a non-fungible token (NFT), to a group of crypto art collectors called PleasrDAO for $4.2 million (approx Rs 33 crore), making it a top-five most expensive photo ever sold.
Further, in November 2023, a $100,000 statue of Kabosu and her sofa, was unveiled in a park in Sakura. It was crowdfunded by Own The Doge, a crypto organisation.
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