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      <link>http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/doge</link>
      <title>Doge</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:29:55 -0400</pubDate>
      <description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;About&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Doge&lt;/strong&gt; is a slang term for “&lt;a href="/memes/dogs"&gt;dog&lt;/a&gt;” that is primarily associated with pictures of Shiba Inus (nicknamed “Shibe”) and internal monologue captions on &lt;a href="/memes/tumblr"&gt;Tumblr&lt;/a&gt;. These photos may be photoshopped to change the dog’s face or captioned with &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/interior-monologue-captioning"&gt;interior monologues&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="/memes/comic-sans"&gt;Comic Sans&lt;/a&gt; font.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;Origin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The use of the misspelled word “doge” to refer to a dog dates back to June 24th, 2005, when it was mentioned in an episode of &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/homestar-runner"&gt;Homestar Runner&lt;/a&gt;’s puppet show. In the episode titled “Biz Cas Fri 1”&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr2"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn2" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, Homestar calls Strong Bad his “d-o-g-e” while trying to distract him from his work.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span&gt;Identity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On February 23rd, 2010, Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato posted several photos of her rescue-adopted Shiba Inu dog Kabosu to her personal blog.&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr38"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn38" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[38]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; Among the photos included a peculiar shot of Kabosu sitting on a couch while glaring sideways at the camera with raised eyebrows (shown below, right).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/674931-doge"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/674/931/a5e.jpg" height="155"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/674934-doge"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/674/934/422.jpg" height="155"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/581296"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/296/c09.jpg" height="155"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In December 2013, shortly after the breakout of “Doge,” the tech news site The Verge&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr39"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn39" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[39]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; published an article identifying Sato’s Kabosu as the original Shiba Inu depicted in the meme. In addition to Kabosu, The Verge also identified “Suki,” a Shiba Inu who lives with San Francisco-based photographer Jonathan Fleming, as the &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/581723"&gt;scarfed dog&lt;/a&gt; portrayed in another popular instance of the meme.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;Spread&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On October 28th, 2010, a photo of Kabosu was submitted to the /r/Ads subreddit&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr3"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn3" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; with the title “&lt;span class="caps"&gt;LMBO&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="caps"&gt;LOOK&lt;/span&gt; @ &lt;span class="caps"&gt;THIS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="caps"&gt;FUKKIN&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="caps"&gt;DOGE&lt;/span&gt;,” where it received 266 upvotes, 218 points overall and 48 comments prior to being archived. Sometime in April 2012, Tumblr user leonsumbitches&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr15"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn15" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[15]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; uploaded an audio file of a computer reading a passage written like the commands of a turn-based adventure game about encountering a “doge.” The passage was paired with a photo of a woman patting a dog on the head&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr16"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn16" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[16]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; and has gained more than 33,000 notes as of July 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailydoge.tumblr.com/post/21839788086/leonsumbitches-you-have-encountered-a-doge" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;leonsumbitches: You have encountered Ａ…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://dailydoge.tumblr.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;dailydoge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://embed.ly?src=embed" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;&lt;img src="http://cdn.embed.ly/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;In response, the single topic blog Your Daily Doge&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr17"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn17" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[17]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was created, but was quickly abandoned after reblogging leonsumbitches’ post several times. On May 7th, YouTuber KwandaoRen66 uploaded a video with a person reading the text over a &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fake-pok%C3%A9mon-battles"&gt;fake Pokemon battle&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr4"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn4" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; By June, doge threads in which numerous people shared photos of dogs in different outfits began appearing on 4chan boards, including /v/&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr11"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn11" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[11]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; (Video Games). The same month, a photoset of a dog with a cup and saucer balanced on his head went viral on Tumblr after airpi&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr14"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn14" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[14]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; referred to it as “Polite Doge.” In August, the first doge single topic blog, Fuck Yeah Doge&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr13"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn13" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[13]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, launched on Tumblr. The growth in summer 2012 coincided with the popularity of the single topic Tumblr &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/interior-monologue-captioning#shibe"&gt;Shiba Confessions&lt;/a&gt;, as people began to refer to these dogs as “shibes.”&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr18"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn18" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[18]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/581722"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/722/7bc.jpg" height="175"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/581720"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/720/315.jpg" height="175"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/581723"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/723/a8b.jpg" height="175"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In December 2012, the term “doge” appeared on Reddit in a post submitted to /r/DogsIWannaHug.&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr6"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn6" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[6]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; The same month, an interior monologue captioned photo of a Schnauzer was submitted to Cheezburger&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr5"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn5" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; with the title “Schnauze.” On January 8th, 2013, the subreddit /r/Doge&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr7"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn7" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[7]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was created, sharing photos and videos of the captioned Shiba Inus. In May, /r/dailydoge&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr9"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn9" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[9]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was created to share one dog photo a day, captioned or not. Another single topic blog, shibe-doge&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr12"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn12" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[12]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, launched in July 2013 dedicated to sharing Shiba Inu photos. On July 29th, 2013, a doge thread&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr19"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn19" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[19]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; was sticky-featured to the top of the 4chan board /s4s/ (Shit 4chan Says), garnering more than 600 replies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/648323"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/648/323/ee6.png" height="300"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
On November 20, 2013, &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/websites/youtube"&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt; implemented an Easter egg, that changes the text to be colored and in Comic Sans, much like the original internal-monologue style captions, when user searches the phrase “doge meme”.&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr22"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn22" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[22]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span&gt;4chan’s /r/Murica Raid&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the evening of August 26th, 2013, a group of users on &lt;a href="/memes/4chan"&gt;4chan&lt;/a&gt; raided against Reddit’s tongue-in-cheek patriotic forum &lt;a href="/memes/murica"&gt;/r/Murica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr20"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn20" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[20]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, flooding the subreddit’s frontpage with dozens of photoshopped images depicting the Doge character in All-American-themed settings (shown below). According to The Daily Dot’s report&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr21"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn21" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[21]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;, the raid started late Sunday night and lasted until about 12:15 p.m. (ET) on August 27th, at which point /r/Murica’s moderators began removing Doge-related posts from the subreddit index. Unlike previous clashes between the users of 4chan and Reddit, the sudden influx of Doge images was reportedly met by little opposition from Reddit’s userbase, reflecting the growing popularity of the character outside of Tumblr.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/597529"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/597/529/742.jpg" height="150"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/597531"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/597/531/ef4.jpg" height="150"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/597532"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/597/532/727.jpg" height="150"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;Notable Examples&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Tumblr, in addition to the captioned photos, the “doge” tag&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr10"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn10" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[10]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; often contains images of a Shiba Inu whose facial features have been manipulated, similar to &lt;a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/starecat-grafics-cat"&gt;Starecat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/581251"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/251/5af.jpg" height="184"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/581168"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/168/9f1.jpg" height="184"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/581407"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/407/591.png" height="184"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/581183"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/183/15f.png" height="150"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/581567"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/567/bab.jpg" height="150"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/581526"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/581/526/3a7.jpg" height="150"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span&gt;Dogecoin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On December 6th, BitcoinTalk forum member Dogecoin introduced an alternative crypotocurrency based on the meme as a satire of the &lt;a href="/memes/bitcoin"&gt;Bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; boom in a thread titled “Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released.” Similar to Bitcoin and its derivatives, Dogecoin can be mined and exchanged for goods and services among the participants, though it is programmed to level out at a higher threshold of up to 100 billion coins and prevent any use of special bitcoin-mining equipment like ASICs. In comparison, Bitcoin will cap out at 21 million coins and Litecoin will support up to 84 million coins in circulation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/658771"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/658/771/aa5.png" height="110"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/661143"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/661/143/b57.jpg" height="110"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/661138"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/661/138/b68.png" height="110"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Following the launch of the official website, a slew of social media channels and referential webpages soon emerged for Dogecoin, including a Twitter account and a Facebook page, racking up more than 1,000 followers and 1,800 likes within the the first week, respectively. On December 8th, an entire subreddit community dedicated to the use of satirical cryptocurrency was launched at /r/dogecoin, accruing more than 2,600 subscribers in just over a week.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/661142"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/661/142/c03.jpg" height="135"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/661146"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/661/146/5bf.jpg" height="135"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="/photos/661145"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/661/145/819.jpg" height="135"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Throughout the first weekend of December, Dogecoin was highlighted by a number of tech news sites and blogs, providing a further boost to the value of the satirical currency. By December 14th, an encyclopedic article describing the concept of “Dogecoin” had been submitted by Wikipedia editor CitationNeeded. At its peak, the estimated value of DogeCoin skyrocketed to as high as $400.80 per coin (shown below).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/661166"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/661/166/bc7.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As of December 15th, one Dogecoin (&lt;span class="caps"&gt;DOGE&lt;/span&gt;) is worth about $ 0.0002 &lt;span class="caps"&gt;USD&lt;/span&gt;, with the market capitalization of $1.45 million &lt;span class="caps"&gt;USD&lt;/span&gt; and 7.2% of the 100 billion total coins having been mined.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="/photos/661165"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/661/165/863.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;&lt;span&gt;Dogewallet Hacked&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On the day of Christmas, several members of Dogecoin forum&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr35"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn35" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[35]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; began reporting that their funds were being transferred to an unknown account identified as “DQT9WcqmUyyccrxQvSrjcFCqRxt8eVBLx8.” Later that same day, the founders of the Dogecoin storage system Dogewallet, temporarily shut down the service and issued a statement&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr37"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn37" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[37]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; confirming that a hacker had gained access to its file system and modified its pages to reroute the coin transfer to a static account, which may have resulted in losses up to $12,000 worth of the crypto-currency. In addition, the Dogewallet administrators announced that it will immediately begin reimbursing all users affected by the hack.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;Search Interest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Search interest for the word “doge”&lt;sup class="footnote" id="fnr1"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn1" class="footnote-superscript"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; is consistent as it is also a Venetian term for “leader” used as a title in some Italian “crowned republics” including Genoa and Venice. However, there has been an upward spike since May 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;External References&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div class="references"&gt;
&lt;p id="fn1"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr1"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Wikipedia – &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Doge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn2"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr2"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Homestar Runner Wiki – &lt;a href="http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Biz_Cas_Fri_1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Biz Caz Fri 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn3"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr3"&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Reddit – &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/ads/comments/dsxz3/lmbo_look_this_fukken_doge/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;/r/ads: &lt;span class="caps"&gt;LMBO&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="caps"&gt;LOOK&lt;/span&gt; @ &lt;span class="caps"&gt;THIS&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="caps"&gt;FUKKEN&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="caps"&gt;DOGE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn4"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr4"&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;YouTube – &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Dmq5ShKuc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;You have encountered A D O G E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn5"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr5"&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Cheezburger – &lt;a href="http://cheezburger.com/6857859072" target="_blank"&gt;schnauze&lt;/a&gt; / 12/08/2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn6"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr6"&gt;[6]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Reddit – &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/dogsiwannahug/comments/15elld/hugging_precious_doge/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;/r/dogsiwannahug: Hugging precious doge&lt;/a&gt; / 12/24/2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn7"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr7"&gt;[7]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Reddit – &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/doge/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;/r/doge&lt;/a&gt; / 01/08/2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn8"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr8"&gt;[8]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Reddit – &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/16sobr/snope_doge/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;/r/trees: Snope Doge&lt;/a&gt; / 01/17/2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn9"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr9"&gt;[9]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Reddit – &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/dailydoge/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;/r/dailydoge&lt;/a&gt; 05/16/2013&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn10"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr10"&gt;[10]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Tumblr – &lt;a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/doge" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Posts tagged “doge”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn11"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr11"&gt;[11]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Foolz Archive – &lt;a href="http://archive.foolz.us/v/thread/147255183/#147255476" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Meet Doge&lt;/a&gt; / 06/16/2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn12"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr12"&gt;[12]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Tumblr – &lt;a href="http://shibe-doge.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;shibe-doge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn13"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr13"&gt;[13]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Tumblr – &lt;a href="http://fuckyeahdoge.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;fuckyeahdoge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn14"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr14"&gt;[14]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Tumblr – &lt;a href="http://airpi.tumblr.com/post/25817775836/a-polite-doge-has-approached-you-accept-tea" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;airpi: A &lt;span class="caps"&gt;POLITE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="caps"&gt;DOGE&lt;/span&gt; has approached you&lt;/a&gt; 06/24/2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn15"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr15"&gt;[15]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Tumblr – &lt;a href="http://leonsumbitches.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;leonsumbitches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn16"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr16"&gt;[16]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Your Daily Doge – &lt;a href="http://dailydoge.tumblr.com/post/21839788086/leonsumbitches-you-have-encountered-a-doge" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Reblog of leonsumbitches’ Post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn17"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr17"&gt;[17]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Tumblr – &lt;a href="http://dailydoge.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Your Daily Doge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn18"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr18"&gt;[18]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Tumblr – &lt;a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/shibe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Posts Tagged “shibe”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn19"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr19"&gt;[19]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;4chan – &lt;a href="http://boards.4chan.org/s4s/res/698320" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;/s4s/: le sticky doge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn20"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr20"&gt;[20]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Reddit – /r/Murica – &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/MURICA/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Murica! Fuck Yeah!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn21"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr21"&gt;[21]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;The Daily Dot – &lt;a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lol/4chan-raid-reddit-r-murica-shibe/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;4chan spammed Reddit with an army of Shiba Inus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn22"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr22"&gt;[22]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Google Operating System – &lt;a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/11/youtube-easter-egg-for-doge-meme.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;YouTube Easter Egg for Doge Meme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn23"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr23"&gt;[23]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Bitcoin Talk Forum – &lt;a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361813.0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;[&lt;span class="caps"&gt;ANN&lt;/span&gt;][&lt;span class="caps"&gt;DOGE&lt;/span&gt;] Dogecoin – very currency – many coin – wow – v1.1 Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn24"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr24"&gt;[24]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Dogecoin.com – &lt;a href="http://dogecoin.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dogecoin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn25"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr25"&gt;[25]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Twitter – &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/dogecoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;@Dogecoin’s Tweets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn26"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr26"&gt;[26]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Facebook – &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/Dogecoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dogecoin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn27"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr27"&gt;[27]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Wikipedia – &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dogecoin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn28"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr28"&gt;[28]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Doge Coin Official Forum – &lt;a href="http://doges.org/index.php?topic=60.0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Topic: How many Dogecoins have you guys dug?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn29"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr29"&gt;[29]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Reddit – &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;/r/dogecoin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn30"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr30"&gt;[30]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Coin Marketcap – &lt;a href="http://coinmarketcap.com/doge_30.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;DogeCoin 30-Day Market Cap Graph&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn31"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr31"&gt;[31]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Doge Coin Official Forum – "[&lt;acronym title="CLOSED"&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;INFO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/acronym&gt;] Current Average Value of &lt;span class="caps"&gt;DOGE&lt;/span&gt; ":http://doges.org/index.php/topic,89.15.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn32"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr32"&gt;[32]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Slashgear – &lt;a href="http://www.slashgear.com/dogecoin-digital-currency-takes-on-bitcoin-with-a-bit-of-meme-flair-11308557/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dogecoin digital currency takes on Bitcoin with a bit of meme flair&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn33"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr33"&gt;[33]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Geek.com – &lt;a href="http://www.geek.com/apps/the-best-invention-on-the-internet-dogecoin-a-more-viable-alternative-to-bitcoin-1579442/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dogecoin: Not a viable alternative to Bitcoin, but possibly the best invention on the internet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn34"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr34"&gt;[34]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Geekosystem – &lt;a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/dogecoin/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dogecoin, A Cryptocurrency For Doges, Is Now A Thing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn35"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr35"&gt;[35]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Dogecoin Forum – &lt;a href="http://doges.org/index.php/topic,5283.0.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dogewallet hacked!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn36"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr36"&gt;[36]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;The Verge – &lt;a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/26/5244604/millions-of-dogecoin-stolen-in-christmas-hack" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Millions of Dogecoin stolen in Christmas hack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn37"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr37"&gt;[37]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Reddit – &lt;a href="http://4x.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/1toz92/dogewallet_explanation/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Dogewallet Explanation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn38"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr38"&gt;[38]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;Exblog – &lt;a href="http://kabosu112.exblog.jp/9944144/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Kabosu112&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p id="fn39"&gt;&lt;sup class="footnote"&gt;&lt;a href="#fnr39"&gt;[39]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span class="footnote-text"&gt;The Verge – &lt;a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/31/5248762/doge-meme-rescue-dog-wow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"&gt;Wow this Doge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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