Cheems
Balltze the Shiba — Doge's soft-spoken cousin from dogelore who says 'cheemsburbger' and lives for ironic wholesome chaos.
An ironic Doge variant based on Shiba Inu Balltze. In memes Cheems loves cheeseburgers ('cheemsburbger'), speaks in soft misspellings, and often plays the timid foil in dogelore comics.
History
Popularized on Reddit's r/dogelore using photos of Balltze; Cheems became the defining secondary Shiba meme character alongside classic Doge (Know Your Meme).
Cultural scores
Editorial estimates of cultural weight — Current Popularity tracks how much people are posting about this now, not historical fame.
Current Popularity = how actively people are posting about this today. Influence = lasting footprint. Cringe = online reception. Brainrot = absurdist energy. Scores last reviewed 2026-07-25. How scoring works
Timeline
2017–19
Balltze / Cheems rises on dogelore and Instagram
2019–21
Cheems vs Swole Doge and comic formats peak
Later
Remains core Shiba meme cast with Kabosu/Doge
Examples
- “Captioning a nervous moment as Cheems energy”
- “Cheemsburbger typos in dogelore comics”
- “Pairing Cheems with Swole Doge formats”
Media
Cheems — Know Your Meme
Origin and spread documentation.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cheems
Related entries
Culturally linked — not random recommendations.
Ceiling Cat
MemeThe cat peeking through a ceiling hole — imageboard god of surveillance jokes and LOLcat theology.
Doge
MemeThe iconic Shiba Inu meme that defined an era — 'such wow, very internet' — and eventually inspired a cryptocurrency.
Longcat
MemeThe impossibly long white cat of mid-2000s imageboards — Photoshop mythology and 'Longcat is long.'
Popcat
MemeOatmeal the cat's open-mouth pop — the clicker / GIF meme that became a national spam sport and Twitch emote energy.
References
Sources behind this entry. Prefer primary reporting and established culture archives over rumor.
- Cheems — Know Your Meme
knowyourmeme.com