Such Dog. Very Famous.

The photo drifted across Reddit, Tumblr and 4chan. Then a Tumblr blog called Shiba Confessions began overlaying it with scattered Comic Sans captions in deliberately broken English — “wow,” “much,” “very.” The joke already had a name: “Doge,” a misspelling of “dog” that traces back to a 2005 episode of Homestar Runner's puppet series. By 2013, Doge was one of the biggest memes of the year. In Sakura, Kabosu knew nothing about it.