
A group of filmmakers and community participants is working on a feature film chronicling the rise of Kabosu, the Shiba Inu depicted in the famous Doge meme, from an abandoned puppy to a global icon.
The Doge documentary, titled “Doumentary”, is produced by On the Doge and the web3 arts and culture collective PleasrDAO, and depicts how a Shiba Inu dog built an $11.6 billion market cap, a life philosophy and a holy pilgrimage to Japan. Along inspired a cryptocurrency. last decade.
The Doge-oriented NFT community, which owns Doge, and PleasrDAO recently acquired the rights to the original Doge meme image earlier this year for $4 million worth of Ethereum.
The film is directed by John Lynn, an English stage and film director and producer known for directing comedies such as Clue, Nuns on the Run and My Cousin Vinnie, and produced by the San Francisco-based production company New Revolution Media. Manufactured by
Members of the Doge community, as well as PleasrDAO and Own the Doge, have funded the initiative to date.
The production is currently underway but the first look is already out.
The documentary was shot in Japan and the US, including interviews with various celebrities, such as Kabosumama, dog owner Atsuko Sato, and John Monarch, who first created the DOGE meme.
Although the project is very niche, its creators hope it will break through to a wide audience.
Jim Toth, a former Hollywood talent agent, and Evan Rosenfeld, a documentary filmmaker, have reportedly expressed support for the project. Additionally, Arthur Jones, director of the Pepe the Frog-inspired documentary “Feels Good Man”, has joined the project.
The next step for the project is to attract traditional film studios or streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime Video to distribute the documentary.
“We plan to have a wide variety of partners and producers, traditional and crypto-native alike, to make this the best piece of art ever made,” said Tridog.
“We want people to know, to understand how a simple photo of a dog has spread joy and happiness around the world, bringing people together for hijinks again and again.”
The rise of Dogecoin – from a meme to a billion-dollar cryptocurrency
dogecoin was originally made as a joke In late 2013 by two software engineers, Billy Marcus and Jackson Palmer.
The Dogecoin code was initially copied from an earlier now-defunct cryptocurrency called LuckyCoin, which was a fork of Litecoin (LTC).
However, to everyone’s surprise, Dogecoin was an almost immediate success. The meme cryptocurrency gained tremendous popularity on sites like Reddit, where it has been used as a tipping currency.
When Dogecoin was just 2-weeks old, it reached more transactions per day than Bitcoin. Furthermore, within the first month, it had over one million unique visitors to its website.
The Dogecoin community has also played an important role in the success of the meme cryptocurrency.
For example, in 2014 the Dogecoin community raised 26.5 million Dogecoin (worth approximately USD$30,000.00 at the time) to send the Jamaican bobsled team to the Sochi Winter Olympics.
However, the cryptocurrency started gaining massive popularity after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk openly endorsed it in 2019.
More recently, the cinema chain has been owned by some businesses including AMC Entertainment Holdings. Adopted Dogecoin adds utility to the meme-based cryptocurrency further, as a means of payment for certain goods.
At the time of writing, Dogecoin is trading at $0.085, up nearly 4% from the previous day. The token currently has a market cap of around $11.9 billion, ranking it as the eighth largest cryptocurrency in the world.