Editing Dogelore (section)

== Subreddit History ==
On August 15th, 2018, [[Kirbizia]], founder of popular subreddits /r/bonehurtingjuice, /r/okbuddyretard and others such as r/yescompanionimbecil, created /r/dogelore. The purpose of the subreddit was to redirect Doge memes dominating the /r/okbuddyretard subreddit at the time to another subreddit in an attempt to diversify /r/obr's content.

Since its creation and in the following years, the /r/dogelore subreddit formed the titular "Doge lore," introducing new dog meme characters, both original and borrowed elsewhere, and establishing certain relationships between them, both non-canon and canon within the Doge lore. Some of the earliest introduced Doge lore characters besides Doge are Walter and Perro (also known as Quieres). While initially focused on ironic memes featuring exlusively Doge, more dog meme characters were introduced starting in 2018, including Walter, Perro, Lil' Bro, Karen Doge, Swole Dog, Cheems and many others. In addition to the staple "wacky dog does uncharacteristic thing" ironic Doge format, /r/dogelore has been adopting popular meme formats from /r/okbuddyretard, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and iFunny, recreating viral memes and commenting on current affairs with Doge lore characters.

=== Explosion in Popularity ===
In four months following its creation, /r/dogelore had accumulated 1,000 subscribers by November 13th, 2018. The subreddit experienced rapid growth during 2019, reaching 30,000 subscriber milestone on April 14th, 2019, 50,000 subscribers by June 10th and 100,000 subscribers by November 14th, 2019. In late June 2020, /r/dogelore reached the 200,000 subscribers mark. The /r/dogelore Discord server had over 13,400 members at that time. Dogelore memes are still popular in many internet communities around the world, especially in the polish and spanish speaking world. Dogelore memes are still especially popular on Spanish and Polish speaking Facebook.

=== Indefinite Shutdown ===
On June 11th 2023 the subreddit mods of r/dogelore would announce that as per the API protest, r/dogelore would "permanently shutdown", many would send their sad remarks about this shutdown, fortunately enough the subreddit would return 18 days later, with the announcement also announcing a new discord server for further discussion, this server only has around 200 members but is more r/dogelore oriented than it's bigger brother, with there being more subreddit discussions and more dogelore culture and memes being shared around the chats.
{{Quote|So, after that abysmal AMA hosted by the god overlord ceo mr spez, where they refused to answer anything or make any compromise and actively shat on the apollo dev, we are going dark indefinitely starting 12:00AM June 12th. For initial context check these two posts|u/Rograden}}