Don't really remember those times after everyone started copying DOGE, to be honest. Feels like all of them just trying to make a buck and not being honest.
There was a trend of creating copy of Doge coin. There were bunch of coins named after some dog breads. Shiba Inu is one of them which is kinda successful project. Other than that, most of coins like Kishu Inu, and other group of Inu's were failed to gain community trust. Another trend was PEPE in the recent times. Pepe almost destroyed the bitcoin network.