Much sad: Kabosu, the real-life Shiba Inu that was the basis for the popular "doge" internet meme - and became the face on the logo of the Dogecoin cryptocurrency - has died. She was 18.

The doge meme: a shiba inu with artistically scattered, multicolored comic sans that has its own bizarre sort of grammaticality. But since it arose on the internet, it managed to get popular ...

She added that despite the internet fame, she and her dog lived a pretty normal life together. “Around me, nobody knows about the doge meme,” Sato told the Verge. “Maybe I don’t understand ...