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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Kabosu, the dog behind the “doge” meme, has died after 14 years of internet fame, her owner has said.<\/p>\n

The Japanese shiba inu inspired a generation of online jokes and became the face of Dogecoin cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

She had been suffering from leukaemia and liver disease and died on 24 May.<\/p>\n

“She quietly passed away as if asleep while I caressed her,” Atsuko Sato wrote on her blog, thanking Kabosu’s fans.<\/p>\n

“I think Kabo-chan was the happiest dog in the world. And I was the happiest owner.”<\/p>\n

As a rescue dog, Kabosu’s real birthday was unknown, but Ms Sato estimated her age at 18.<\/p>\n

In 2010, two years after adopting Kabosu from a puppy mill where she would otherwise have been put down, Ms Sato, a teacher from Sakura, east of Tokyo, took a picture of her pet crossing her paws on the sofa.<\/p>\n

She posted the image on her blog, from where it spread to online forum Reddit and became a meme that bounced from college bedrooms to office email chains.<\/p>\n

The memes typically used goofy broken English to reveal the inner thoughts of Kabosu and other shiba inu “doge” – pronounced like pizza “dough” but with a “j” at the end.<\/p>\n

The picture also later became an NFT digital artwork that sold for $4m (\u00a33.1m) and inspired Dogecoin, which was started as a joke by two software engineers and is now the eighth-most valuable cryptocurrency, with a market capitalisation of $23bn.<\/p>\n

Dogecoin has been backed by hip-hop star Snoop Dogg and Kiss bassist Gene Simmons.<\/p>\n

But its most keen supporter is billionaire Elon Musk, who jokes about the currency on X – sending its value soaring – and hails it as “the people’s crypto”.<\/p>\n

Kabosu fell ill with leukaemia and liver disease in late 2022, and Ms Sato said in a recent interview with AFP that the “invisible power” of prayers from fans worldwide helped her pull through.<\/p>\n

Ms Sato, 62, said she had become so used to “unbelievable” events that when Mr Musk changed the icon for Twitter, now X, to Kabosu’s face last year, she “wasn’t even that surprised”.<\/p>\n

A $100,000 statue of Kabosu and her sofa crowdfunded by Own The Doge, a crypto organisation dedicated to the meme, was unveiled in a park in Sakura in November last year.<\/p>\n

Sato and Own The Doge have also donated large sums to international charities, including more than $1m to Save the Children. The NGO says it is “the single largest crypto contribution” it has ever received.<\/p>\n

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