They auction a meme for 4 million dollars and it is a record

06/11/2021 8:20 PM

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Updated 06/11/2021 8:20 PM

The image of a dog of the Japanese

Shiba Inu

breed

considered one of the best-known memes on the internet, was auctioned this Friday 

for about 4 million dollars

, making it

the most expensive in history

.

The buyer, who identified himself with the user @pleasrdao, submitted a bid for 1,696.9 cryptocurrencies Ethereum, which is worth about 4 million dollars, according to the auction website Zora.

The NFT of the meme was put up for sale on Tuesday by

Atsuko Sato, the owner of Kabosu, the dog

that appears in the image, and for the next three days @pleasrdao was at the forefront of the bids, until a battle broke out between this user and another identified as @twodollahotdoge on Friday afternoon,

which drove the price considerably

.

The term "Doge" comes from the cartoon series "Homestar Runner", specifically from a 2005 chapter in which the central character calls another of the characters his "DOGE".

Five years later, in 2010, Sato posted a picture of his dog Kabosu on his personal blog,

unaware that it would become a

cyber

sensation

.

"I took the photos to update my blog," Sato said in a statement.

"I take a lot of photos every day,

so that day was nothing out of the ordinary

."

The photo began to flood platforms like Tumblr and Reddit in the years following 2010, and when a Reddit user referred to the Kabosu snapshot as "doge,"

they stuck with that name and the meme was created

.

"At first when I found out about the Kabosu memes I was very surprised.

I was terrified

that a single photo that I had casually posted on my blog could travel the world

to places I did not know,

" Sato acknowledged.

The image that is shared, even with different messages, is usually the same: on the left, there is a photomontage of a large and strong dog and, on the right,

a weaker and smaller dog

.

This montage, although different contexts are used, is used to compare

two eras with each other and parody the changes that were made

.

Undoubtedly, these images were designed to poke fun at the sensibilities, manners and practices of millennials and Gen Z and link it to the

supposed toughness of their parents or older siblings

.

Doge's popularity recently received another boost thanks to Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency that has coined his name, and which rose to popularity after Tesla CEO Elon Musk endorsed it on social media this year.

Source: EFE

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