Английская Википедия:Cheems
Шаблон:Use Hong Kong English Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox animal Balltze (Шаблон:Lang-zh, 9 January 2011 – 18 August 2023), nicknamed Cheems in online memes, was a Shiba Inu from Hong Kong. He was called Ball Ball (Шаблон:Lang-zh) by his owners.
Biography
Balltze was born on 9 January 2011.[1] He was adopted at the age of one from an emigrating friend,[2] by fashion designer Kathy from Kowloon.[3] Kathy's brother named him after Ramune, a Japanese beverage in which a marble ball inside the bottle is pressed down to let the drink flow.[3] He was known as Ball Ball by his owners.[4]
In May 2022, Balltze was diagnosed with pancreatitis.[5] He recovered in June.[6] In May 2023, his owners reported that he had serious respiratory problems.[7] He had cancer and was undergoing thoracentesis (the draining of fluid from his chest) when he died on 18 August 2023, aged 12.[8] His funeral was held on 23 August, and donations of US$13,000 were sent to local animal charities.[9]
In a 2020 interview with Know Your Meme, Kathy said that Balltze wanted his legacy to be "Meme fade, [fellow Shiba Inu meme] Doge is eternal. Remember me as 'Balltze', not 'Cheems' or 'cheemsburger', I'm just a Balltze".[3]
Memes
Balltze appears as the Internet meme character Cheems, whose name comes from his taste for "cheemsburgers" Шаблон:Sic. The character adds the letter "m" into words as he speaks.[5] The meme was first posted to the r/dogelore subreddit on Reddit in June 2019.[3] The image used for the meme was uploaded originally on Balltze's Instagram account in 2017, and shows him sitting on the floor.[4]
Cheems also features in the "Swole Doge vs Cheems" meme in which a muscular version of Doge represents something considered better in the past, and Cheems represents its current, lesser state.[4] The meme became viral in mid-2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.[10][11] In another meme format, Godzilla and King Kong represent two competing concepts, while Cheems armed with a baseball bat is the winning third concept, chasing the other two away.[12]
In 2020, another meme circulated, in which Cheems hits another dog with a baseball bat causing the onomatopoeia "bonk", while saying "go to horny jail"; the meme is posted in response to sexually suggestive messages.[4] The Guardian journalist Caleb Quinley noted this image in protests against the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état.[13]
Cheems appeared in several other memes in the Spanish-speaking world, including saying "no puede ser" ("It cannot be") and "me da amsiedad" ("It gives me amxiety" [sic]).[14][15] In 2021, Spain's public broadcaster RTVE wrote "What is clear is that a meme is worth more than a thousand words and Cheems and Doge now form part of Internet popular culture, reinventing themselves constantly to brighten our days or put us in our places".[4] Balltze's owner Kathy's favourite Cheems meme was one in Spanish, in which he takes a bath and says "Could you carry on scrolling? It's just that I'm taking a bamth [sic]".[3]
Kathy initially did not understand the Cheems memes for their absurdist nature. She later signed deals with a management company and an American toy company, as well as making T-shirts which benefitted local canine charities.[3]
Cheems inspired cryptocurrency such as Cheems Inu and Cheemscoin. Parth Dubey of the International Business Times wrote that they were part of "a number of wannabe dog-themed coins" competing against Dogecoin and the Shiba Inu cryptocurrency.[16]
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