Snapchat introduced the dancing hot dog amidst a cloud of doubt about the future of the company. This innocent piece of animated meat and bread with the appearance of a cheap McDonald's Happy Meal ...

It was smiling. It was wearing green headphones, probably purchased from Urban Outfitters in the year 2012. I loved Dancing Hot Dog, and I was audacious enough to assume Dancing Hot Dog loved me, too.

Over all, the dancing hot dog—one of Snapchat's World Lenses, which superimpose digital 3-D objects over the real-life surroundings—has sprung to life more than 2 billion times on the platform.

We know this because the hot dog was featured prominently in his Snap Story recently, because he just couldn’t handle an animated dancing hot dog. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ...

The platform added animated characters, expanding beyond selfie masks, almost a year ago now. Once the dancing hot dog launched in app, it quickly rose to internet fame.

“Our dancing hot dog is most likely the world’s first augmented reality superstar,” Spiegel said, mentioning that it had been viewed more than 1.5 billion times.

The video shows the dancing hot dog being "taken away" by a child riding in a shopping cart. That tweet has more than 122,000 likes. Thus, the love affair with the Snapchat hot dog began: ...

It has been narrativized in what probably counts as a pitch for a Dreamworks animated film. It’s true: The whole internet loves dancing hot dog, a lovely hot dog that dances! Please don’t let ...

The dancing hot dog lens received 1.5 billion views in about a month. With Lens Studio, developers have a chance to build their own dancing hot dogs, or any other animated objects.

The costume, which you can really purchase on Amazon, is based on Snap Inc.’s dancing, flipping, animated, augmented reality wiener which took the internet by storm this summer.

It’s a simple concept: A hot dog, wearing headphones, jubilantly break-dancing to music. And now it’s a meme. Snapchat users started posting videos and photos of a new filter available on the ...