Kabosu, who was born in 2005 and gained worldwide fame after being adopted from an animal shelter by Atsuko Sato in 2008, has died. Sato, the owner of the Shiba Inu breed dog, made the announcement.

Sato said on his Instagram account, “Those who love Kabosu should know that he is no longer with us. Thank you for your support over the years. He went painlessly and as if he had fallen asleep.”

He was a popular phenomenon before Dogecoin

When Kabosu’s photo went viral in 2010, the dog suddenly became the most talked about dog on the internet. This fame, which started to spread instantly on the most used platforms of the internet world at that time, such as Reddit and Tumblr, was named “Doge”.

The word “Doge”, which was created by deliberately misspelling the word “Dog”, the English word for dog, became the name of the Shiba inu breed dog.