But, fear not! We have the ultimate remedy for winter blues— dog memes. Why dog memes, you ask? Because dogs are a pure, unfiltered joy. They’re goofy, loyal, and sometimes a little too relatable.

This image would become the emblematic Doge meme. The meme’s popularity surged further when a subreddit post in 2012 featured an audio clip of a computer-generated voice interacting with a Doge ...