Ben and Eric from icanhascheezeburger

by Jeremy Schoemaker on December 6, 2007 · 68 comments

Partied with the 2 founders of icanhascheezeburger (among many others lats night). Come to find out they are long time shoemoney reeaders and said they were inspired to make icanhascheezeburger from reading shoemoney.com

talk about a compliment………..

I don’t get the whole cat thing.. But these guys are obviously on to something. You can’t go anywhere without seeing a lolcat. Such an amazing success story. It was really cool to meet them.

ok i guess this one is funny ;)

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1 Darin Carter December 6, 2007 at 2:38 pm

ok … now that is really funny!
LOL

Darin

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2 chrish December 6, 2007 at 2:38 pm

i just dont get the lolcat thing.. yeah its funny for a minute but so was ‘all your base are belong to us’ until it wasn’t. whatever guess i am getting old.

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3 Ginene December 6, 2007 at 2:46 pm

That is great compliment. I love their blog.

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4 youfoundjake December 6, 2007 at 2:59 pm

Its a funny site, really cool they were inspired by you Jeremy. I first heard about it from Matt’s post for Halloween, even though he looks goofy.

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5 Blog Contests December 6, 2007 at 3:05 pm

hehe, I don’t think anyone gets it

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6 Hawaii SEO December 6, 2007 at 3:24 pm

Aloha! Ben & Eric.
Now… You are the ones who are inspiring people to make cool websites.

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7 Rhys December 6, 2007 at 3:55 pm

I POOP RAINBOWS

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8 Aleks December 6, 2007 at 4:12 pm

I like cats, so this cat picture really made my day

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9 Thomas Sinfield December 6, 2007 at 4:19 pm

if that doesn’t prove you can be successful blogging about anything i dont know what does!

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10 gambit32 December 6, 2007 at 4:28 pm

Jer meets all the cool folk

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11 Affiliate Unleashed December 6, 2007 at 4:33 pm

Dang they have some PR and traffic. Never heard of them till now.

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12 Affiliate Unleashed December 6, 2007 at 4:34 pm

LOL That was my favorite one I think. ^_^

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13 Brian Free December 6, 2007 at 4:35 pm

Their site is really amusing … they crack my girlfriend up and anyone that brightens up her day is a friend to me

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14 Nicholas James December 6, 2007 at 5:13 pm

Wow. Never heard of that site until now…some pretty cool images that make you laugh :)

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15 Awesome! December 6, 2007 at 5:33 pm

yeah icanhascheezburger! Man that site gets me through the workday. Some real gems on there… fun to find out cheezburger and tofuburger actually have names, hee hee hee

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16 Scott Weaver December 6, 2007 at 5:46 pm

Heh heh. That is pretty funny.

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17 nashville December 6, 2007 at 5:57 pm

First time checking that site out and thought it was going to be kind of stupid but actually ended up laughing at some of the photos

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18 mariam December 6, 2007 at 6:46 pm

Oh come on. I’m addicted to that site. It just makes me smile in the morning when I check it out.

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19 Think Like An SOB December 6, 2007 at 6:50 pm

I had seen this site a few days ago linked from one of the other blogs, and didn’t get what the whole site is about. Saw it again after your post and still dont get it. So it is pics of cats, wtf does it have to do with cheeseburgers? Did they just have that domain name lying around and thought, hey why not just throw some cat pictures on it!

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20 Affiliate Confession December 6, 2007 at 7:30 pm

Who can’t love those pics. They’re great compared to those fake studio shots yuo see on calendars.

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21 Scott Weaver December 6, 2007 at 8:05 pm

Yes… but, they’ve dominated the ‘cute’ niche to hell. How can you top that?

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22 * Miss Universe December 6, 2007 at 8:31 pm

One would have thought they were inspired by Cute Overload

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23 Joe December 6, 2007 at 10:25 pm

They’d be funnier without the baby talk.

That said, congrats guys. Way to go.

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24 King Jacob December 6, 2007 at 10:32 pm

Icanhascheeseburger is the epitome of a I cant believe that made money site and an I cant believe I didnt think of that site.

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25 johnCard December 6, 2007 at 10:49 pm

silly freak, that’s funny

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26 King Jacob December 7, 2007 at 12:50 am

No, there is a lolcat with “I can has cheeseburger” as the text.

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27 lyricsreg December 7, 2007 at 1:06 am

I am also a reader. Lolcats rule !

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28 lyricsreg December 7, 2007 at 1:07 am

I doubt that

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29 Mike Huang December 7, 2007 at 2:26 am

WOW! You met the guys behind the lolcats :) They really stumbled upon something when they opened that site. It also seems like Mr. Shoe is styling w/o glasses :)

-Mike

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30 QuarterWiki December 7, 2007 at 4:00 am

Cute cat!

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31 30 Day Man December 7, 2007 at 4:55 am

whats the deal with the whole cat thingy?

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32 shy guy December 7, 2007 at 6:17 am

They are such a damn good guy.. Using funny cat picture as their income..

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33 MG December 7, 2007 at 7:40 am

LoL, nice picture of the cat. Really funny ! :)

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34 Yi Lu December 7, 2007 at 8:20 am

Asians and success, what else is new? ;)

World dominance coming to your neighborhood nearest you!

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35 Anitha December 7, 2007 at 8:44 am

icanhascheezeburger…now that’s a cool name, not to mention that cute cat too!

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36 Tracy Robinson December 7, 2007 at 8:56 am

I have to admit I still don’t get the whole cat thing either, but maybe it is because I am a dog guy.

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37 Gecko Tales December 7, 2007 at 9:20 am

My wife doesn’t get it, but I love those things. I can’t get enough, and I guess a lot of others can’t either. Those guys may be the greatest minds of the Internet since Sergey and Larry. Ok, maybe not that great, but they are really funny.

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38 Gingerbread December 7, 2007 at 9:43 am

I’m a dog guy too and I laugh at those lolcats every caturday. ;) It’s meme-rific!

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39 James B. December 7, 2007 at 10:04 am

Didn’t that start on blogger?? I think i remember hearing about it. They are doing pretty well i would say.

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40 Hustle Strategy December 7, 2007 at 11:39 am

i like how the domain is spelled wrong in the title and the text. good thing the link works and the guy is wearing a tshirt with the name of the site on it

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41 Moviecat December 7, 2007 at 11:50 am

Wow…my blog was inspired by them (I do not have a LOL site) and they were inspired by Shoemoney…therefor I was inspired by Shoemoney (which I was). I am doubled Inspired!

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42 Nicholas James December 7, 2007 at 11:52 am

I doubt that, the reason its funny is because of the captions :)

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43 Nicholas James December 7, 2007 at 12:48 pm

I agree i don’t personally like cats but damn those captions are funny :)

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44 jim December 7, 2007 at 12:49 pm

Look, no glasses on the recently lasik’d shoemoney!

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45 jim December 7, 2007 at 12:50 pm

they’re funny because they’re so incongruent, everyone hates ordinary and regular nowadays :)

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46 jim December 7, 2007 at 12:51 pm

The more of a conceptual jump between the caption and the cat, the funnier it is. without the caption, that’s a cat next to shoes. in fact you probably wouldn’t even notice the shoes.

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47 Affiliate Confession December 7, 2007 at 3:00 pm

Yea, but this is cute and different with the quotes and all..

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48 Omar Yesid Mariño December 7, 2007 at 5:02 pm

Hehehehe… I cannot stop of laughing. Very funny pictures… And I guess that is an excellent business for them.

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49 Affiliate Unleashed December 7, 2007 at 6:11 pm

If you know about All Your base you’re probably at least 20… So yea! You’re getting old ;) hahaha (just kidding)

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50 Jason Brailow December 7, 2007 at 8:59 pm

I kind of get the “cute, geeky” humor, but Its rediculous! Hey, if you can make $$ with 2 girls 1 cup, why not LOLCATS?

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51 Matt L December 7, 2007 at 10:58 pm

Cats are delicious

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52 lyricsreg December 8, 2007 at 5:16 am

Nice artistic review :)

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53 Joeychgo December 8, 2007 at 2:24 pm

Very funny! Thanks!

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54 Joeychgo December 8, 2007 at 2:24 pm

I agree comepletely! Cats are funny as hell

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55 Tamar Weinberg December 8, 2007 at 6:59 pm

I LUV CHEEZBURGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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56 Affiliate Confession December 8, 2007 at 11:28 pm

Yea, it drives me nuts when you think of the simple things people make money from.

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57 lyricsreg December 10, 2007 at 5:39 am

While your there, I recommend ihasabucket.com :)

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58 lyricsreg December 10, 2007 at 5:41 am

Do you really believe the idea is enough ? Who knows how much promoting was done before the site reached this level

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59 Affiliate Confession December 10, 2007 at 8:36 am

I just want to know where they get all the pictures.

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60 Margie Fisher December 10, 2007 at 8:46 am

I can’t stop laughing! Love it!

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61 Affiliate Confession December 10, 2007 at 9:31 am

Yes, I’m sure it was promoted like crazy. And now Shoe does his thing. After this they’re probably going to the next level.

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62 Affiliate Confession December 10, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Doh, I just figured out the icanhascheezburger thing. I didn’t know wtf the word was until I saw the first post.

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63 ShoeMoney December 10, 2007 at 12:55 pm

all pictures are user submitted. They get over 9,000 per day

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64 softmanya December 24, 2007 at 2:43 pm

hahah its really funny:)

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