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Cheems
Balltze (, 9 January 2011 – 18 August 2023), nicknamed Cheems in online memes, was a Shiba Inu from Hong Kong. He was called Ball Ball () by his owners. Biography Balltze was born on 9 January 2011. He was adopted at the age of one from an emigrating friend, by fashion designer Kathy from Kowloon. Kathy's brother named him after Ramune, a Japanese beverage in which Codd-neck bottle, a marble ball inside the bottle is pressed down to let the drink flow. He was known as Ball Ball by his owners. In May 2022, Balltze was diagnosed with pancreatitis. He recovered in June. In May 2023, his owners reported that he had serious respiratory problems. He had cancer and was undergoing thoracentesis (the draining of fluid from his chest) when he died on 18 August 2023, aged 12. His funeral was held on 23 August, and donations of US$13,000 were sent to local animal charities. In a 2020 interview with ''Know Your Meme'', Kathy said that Balltze wanted his legacy to be "Meme fade, [fellow Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doge (meme)
Doge (usually , or ) is an Internet meme that became popular in 2013. The meme consists of a picture of a Shiba Inu dog, accompanied by multicolored text in Comic Sans font in the foreground. The text, representing a kind of internal monologue, is deliberately written in a form of broken English. The meme originally and most frequently uses an image of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu, though versions with other Shiba Inus are also popular. The meme is based on a 2010 photograph of Kabosu which became popular in late 2013, being named as ''Know Your Meme''s "top meme" of that year. The Shiba Inu had a notable presence in popular culture in late 2013, including a cryptocurrency based on Doge, the Dogecoin, launching in December of that year. Several online polls and media outlets recognized Doge as one of the best Internet memes of the 2010s. Structure Doge uses two-word phrases in which the first word is almost always one of five modifiers ("so", "such", "many", "much", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
