Memes: Animals

This page lists the 16 memes we currently document in the category “Animals”. Each one links to a full article: where it came from, and every Solana coin that tried to cash in on it.

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  Cheems1 coin

  Cheems is the mumbling, cheeseburger-obsessed Shiba Inu who became the internet's designated weakling, most famously as the feeble modern counterpart to a hugely muscular vintage Doge. Behind the meme was a real dog: Balltze, a Hong Kong Shiba who was adopted at one year old, went viral because a stranger said he looked like cheese, and died in August 2023 to genuine international news coverage.

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  Doge4 coins · OG $SAMO

  Doge is an internet meme built around a photograph of Kabosu, a Japanese Shiba Inu, paired with broken-English internal-monologue captions set in multicolored Comic Sans. It became one of the defining memes of the early 2010s and later lent its image and name to Dogecoin, one of the first and most enduring 'joke' cryptocurrencies.

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  dogwifhat1 coin · OG $WIF

  dogwifhat is an internet meme based on a photograph of a Shiba Inu wearing a soft pink knitted beanie, captioned in the deliberately misspelled style 'dog wif hat.' In late 2023 it inspired dogwifhat (ticker WIF), a Solana-based memecoin that, with no stated utility beyond being 'literally just a dog wif a hat,' grew into one of the largest meme coins by market capitalization.

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  Dramatic Chipmunk0 coins

  A five-second clip of a prairie dog (mislabeled a chipmunk) snapping its head toward the camera as a dramatic musical sting blares, used to punctuate any moment of exaggerated shock.

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  Harambe1 coin · OG $HARAMBE

  Harambe was a 17-year-old western lowland gorilla shot and killed by staff at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28, 2016, after a three-year-old boy fell into his enclosure. The killing sparked international controversy and, within weeks, an enormous wave of internet memes, most infamously the ironic mock-mourning slogan 'dicks out for Harambe', that turned the gorilla into one of the defining memes of 2016.

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  Ivy the Short Spine Dog1 coin

  Ivy is a Pitbull mix born with Short Spine Syndrome, a rare condition that fused her vertebrae and left her with no visible neck and no tail. The result is a dog shaped roughly like a bowling ball with legs, who hops instead of walks, and whose owners joke she was cut with frog DNA. She has been famous since 2021, which by internet standards makes her an elder.

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  Moo Deng1 coin · OG $MOODENG

  Moo Deng is a female pygmy hippopotamus born July 10, 2024 at the Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand, whose slippery, expressive appearance made her a global viral sensation in September 2024. Her name translates roughly to 'bouncy pork' or 'bouncy pig,' and her fame inspired the MOODENG memecoin on the Solana blockchain.

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  Neil the Seal1 coin · OG $NEIL

  Neil the Seal is a southern elephant seal from Tasmania, Australia, who became a global internet character for hauling himself into seaside towns and treating traffic cones, parked cars and road barriers as personal enemies. Fans adore him precisely because he behaves like an oblivious, road-blocking menace.

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  Neiro1 coin · OG $NEIRO

  Neiro is a Shiba Inu rescue dog adopted by Atsuko Sato, the owner of Kabosu, the original Doge, and positioned by the crypto community as the 'successor' Doge dog. The Neiro meme spawned tokens across chains; on Solana, NEIRO is the most recognized.

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  Peanut the Squirrel (P'Nut)1 coin · OG $PNUT

  Peanut, also known as P'Nut, was an Instagram-famous eastern gray squirrel rescued and raised by Mark Longo in New York. His seizure and euthanasia by New York state authorities in late October 2024 triggered a massive online and political backlash, and spawned the PNUT memecoin, which briefly reached a multi-billion-dollar market capitalization.

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  Philosoraptor0 coins

  A velociraptor holding its claw to its chin in a thinking pose, posing pseudo-deep philosophical questions and wordplay.

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  Pibble1 coin · OG $PIBBLE

  'Pibble' is affectionate internet slang for a pit-bull-type dog, and in 2026 it became a full-blown viral format via the pibblefluencer TikTok account, whose AI-assisted dancing-pibble clips built a huge following around cheerful catchphrases like 'wash ma belly.'

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  Sad Hamster (Hampter)1 coin

  The Sad Hamster, also called Hamster With Big Eyes or Hampter, is an edited photo of a grey hamster with comically oversized, teary eyes, usually paired with the 'world's smallest violin' tune. It became one of the breakout TikTok reaction memes of 2024.

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  Tsunami (Rescue Dog)1 coin · OG $Tsunami

  Tsunami is a Venezuelan search-and-rescue border collie who became a national symbol of hope in late June 2026 after helping locate survivors buried in the rubble of a catastrophic double earthquake. Once an abused, abandoned street puppy, he grew into one of Latin America's most decorated rescue dogs, and his story spread rapidly across Spanish- and English-language media.

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  Vira-Lata Caramelo0 coins

  The vira-lata caramelo is Brazil's caramel-coated mixed-breed street dog, an unpedigreed mutt the internet adopted as an unofficial national mascot for scrappy Brazilian resilience. A self-deprecating joke that a stray represents Brazil better than soccer or samba curdled into genuine pride, then into memes, merch and a record-breaking Netflix movie.

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  Yellowstone Bison Toss1 coin

  On July 10, 2026 a bull bison at Yellowstone launched a 65 year old tourist roughly eight feet into the air, and a photographer happened to be filming. The clip escaped the news cycle almost immediately and became a remix format: the same two seconds of airborne man, rescored to Benny Hill, recut as surfing footage, and repainted in the style of Bob Ross. The internet spent a week deciding whether it was allowed to laugh, and mostly decided yes.