Doge Memes: The Doge Family, Ranked
Doge took off in 2013: photos of Kabosu, a Shiba Inu from Japan, captioned in multicoloured Comic Sans with "such wow" and "very meme". The dog stayed and the cast grew.
This list ranks the Doge family by how much each spin-off shaped the memes after it. Each entry links to its full article.
The list
1.Doge
The original. Kabosu's side-eye and broken-English captions made the template every later Shiba meme builds on.
Read about Doge →2.Cheems
A softer, rounder Shiba who adds an "m" to words ("burgemr") and stands for anyone having a mildly bad time.
Read about Cheems →3.Swole Doge vs. Cheems
A muscular Doge for how things used to be and a small Cheems for how they are now. Built for then-and-now comparisons.
Read about Swole Doge vs. Cheems →4.Bonk
Doge swinging a bat at Cheems. Used to tell someone off, most often with "go to horny jail".
Read about Bonk →5.Dogecoin
The cryptocurrency launched in 2013 as a joke on Doge. Its logo is the meme's Shiba.
Read about Dogecoin →6.Doggo Speak
The dog vocabulary ("doggo", "pupper", "heckin") that followed Doge's captions.
Read about Doggo Speak →
