Cheems

## About

**Cheems** was an Ironic Doge character popular on /r/dogelore. His real name is **Balltze**, but he is often called Ball Ball. In memes he is known for liking cheeseburgers, which he pronounces, "Cheemsburbger."

Memes featuring Cheems are usually based upon the character humorously misspelling various words, particularly by including extra M letters and first appeared on /r/dogelore in June 2019.

Cheems passed away on the 18.08.2023 during his last thoracentesis surgery as per Cheems\_Balltze (@balltze) Instagram.

## Origin

The earliest known usage of "Cheemsburbger" was published on the /r/dogelore subreddit on June 8th, 2019 by Redditor Spicy\_Meme\_Boi. The four-panel meme, which features the smiling Doge with the caption "Cheemsburbger," received more than 1,600 points (99% upvoted) in less than one year.

## Spread

On August 8th, 2019, Redditor Octatracking posed an edited picture to /r/dogelore declaring "A Cheems Is Born," imagining the creation of a doge that can only say "cheemsburbger." The post gained over 2,900 points.

Over the following months, the character and its lust for cheemsburbgers grew popular on /r/dogelore, as users expanded upon the character to make it violently protective of "cheemsburbgers." For example, on August 21st, 2019, a deleted user posted a threatening message about adding a loaf of Doge to its cheemsburbger recipe, gaining over 7,400 points (shown below, left). User federic0\_S\_2 posted a similarly violent image to /r/ImSorryKaren on October 30th, gaining over 270 points.

Other popular posts featuring Cheems include a post by nuclear power plant that gained over 1,000 points in doge lore and a post by Kenna that gained over 2,000 points.

Also on youtube there is many youtubers, such as Allegedstring48 (who posts cheems edits) or bashar (who posted the life of cheems and with the original getting over 4.5 million views is definitely deserves to be mentioned). Cheems on youtube is widely growing so who knows what is to come!

## Cheems fart 💨

On May 19th, 2023, doge' owner made a post to Instagram sharing several photos of Goofy ahh vet. In the caption, her owner shares that Doge has been throwing nerd and having diarrhea party and was diagnosed with pancreatitis on May 10th. The photos were posted after a second math test, which showed test results better than the last. The post gained over 48 likes in under 24 hours and many comments of support wishing Balltze a quick recovery. On that day, a user of ps5 made a post sharing the news, gaming over 2,700 upvotes in under a day and multiple well-stupid comments.

## Related memes

#### Swole Doge vs. Cheems

Swole doge vs cheems refers to a comparison format in which representatives of the same group from two historical eras are presented as Swole Dogeand Cheems and are compared to each other. Originating from a viral Reddit meme, the format gained popularity on Reddit and Facebook starting in mid-May 2020

#### Go To Horny Jail

On March 19th, 2020, iFunny user BaconatorSr posted an image macro of a Doge hitting another with a stick with the text reading "Go to Horny Jail BONK," gaining over 1,000 likes. Over the following weeks, the image became popularly used on Twitter in replies to others posting sexual content. For example, Twitter user proteanform used it in response to a tweet by gracespelman on April 5th, 2020, gaining over 140 likes. User I\_Want\_To\_Leave posted it beneath a lushsuxtweet in which he was spraypainting "I don't want to be horny anymore I want to be happy".

## Death

Cheems passed away on the 18.08.2023 per Cheems\_Balltze (@Balltze) instagram.

His tutor have posted the following message:

*"Ball Ball fell asleep on 18/8.*

*He fell asleep on Friday morning during his last thoracentesis surgery. Originally, we wanted to arrange chemotherapy or other possible treatment for him after this operation, but it is too late now.*

*Don’t be sad, please remember the joy that Balltze brought to the world. A Shiba Inu with a round smiling face connecting you and me, he has helped many people during the pandemic and brought a lot of joy to many of you, but now his mission has completed. I believe he is running freely in the sky and having a lot of delicious food with his new friends. He will always be inside my heart. I hope he can continue to bring joy to everyone in the online world, that’s my only humble request.*

*Also, I would like to thank the medical staff who had helped Balltze for the past 6 months Ken @just.walk\_animal.rehab , Dr.Jessica and Dr.Tiffany*

*@amahvethk they have done an amazing job for taking care of Balltze.*

*All of you have been very generous and helpful, and I’m truly grateful to all of you, your love and support to Ball Ball is so unconditional and I found that is the purest love in the world, having Ball Ball in my life is the best thing ever happened.*

*The donation and brass pins money I have collected for the medical bills will be now donating to local animal charities.*

*Thank you everyone, thank you, Balltze knows how much he was loved by all of you."*

Having attained legendary status, Balltze is gone, but his legacy as Cheems will stay with us forever.