cheems

A small Shiba Inu with a sad, hopeful face and a habit of adding 'm' to words — 'bonk', 'chemsburger' — who was the weaker half of every 'strong vs weak' comparison for three years. The dog, Balltze, died in August 2023, and the internet held a funeral.

A Shiba Inu hitting another Shiba Inu with a baseball bat — 'bonk' — usually to send them to 'horny jail'. The 2020 meme for policing a friend's thirst, and, in 2022, the name of a mascot that revived a whole blockchain's mood. The record's entry for the bat.

A muscular Shiba Inu representing the past and a small, sad one representing the present, in a two-panel comparison of how things used to be — 'people in 1999 vs people now' — that ran through 2020–21. The record's entry for nostalgia as a dog.

A Shiba Inu annotated in coloured Comic Sans. Outlived its own irony, then outlived its own death, and is now legal tender in the loosest possible sense.

A bull terrier photographed from below, with a long snout and a look of alarm, named Walter and used for any reaction that needs a dog who has just heard something. The record's entry for the dog whose face is a whole sentence.

A face on a coloured background, two lines of Impact, one character trait. The industrial phase of the meme, when anyone could make one and everyone did.

A puppy on a rainbow background giving terrible guidance. Spawned an entire taxonomy of animals with opinions and was retired by its own descendants.

The father in Bluey — a cartoon dog who plays every game, never phones it in and occasionally lies on the floor — as the internet's model of fatherhood in 2023–24, and the record's entry for a cartoon dog as a parenting standard that real fathers post about failing.