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Ben and Eric from icanhascheezeburger

Posted December 6th, 2007 by Jeremy Schoemaker

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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68 comments. What say you?

  1. Good Comment?
    softmanya

    hahah its really funny:)

  2. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

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

  3. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Confession

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

  4. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Confession

    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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    Margie Fisher

    I can’t stop laughing! Love it!

  6. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Confession

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

  7. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

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

  8. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

    While your there, I recommend ihasabucket.com :)

  9. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Confession

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

  10. Good Comment?
    Tamar Weinberg

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

  11. Good Comment?
    Joeychgo

    I agree comepletely! Cats are funny as hell

  12. Good Comment?
    Joeychgo

    Very funny! Thanks!

  13. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

    Nice artistic review :)

  14. Good Comment?
    Matt L

    Cats are delicious

  15. Good Comment?
    Jason Brailow

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

  16. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Unleashed

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

  17. Good Comment?
    Omar Yesid MariƱo

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

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    Affiliate Confession

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

  19. Good Comment?
    jim

    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.

  20. Good Comment?
    jim

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

  21. Good Comment?
    jim

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

  22. Good Comment?
    Nicholas James

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

  23. Good Comment?
    Nicholas James

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

  24. Good Comment?
    Moviecat

    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!

  25. Good Comment?
    Hustle Strategy

    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

  26. Good Comment?
    James B.

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

  27. Good Comment?
    Gingerbread

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

  28. Good Comment?
    Gecko Tales

    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.

  29. Good Comment?
    Tracy Robinson

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

  30. Good Comment?
    Anitha

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

  31. Good Comment?
    Yi Lu

    Asians and success, what else is new? ;)

    World dominance coming to your neighborhood nearest you!

  32. Good Comment?
    MG

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

  33. Good Comment?
    shy guy

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

  34. Good Comment?
    30 Day Man

    whats the deal with the whole cat thingy?

  35. Good Comment?
    QuarterWiki

    Cute cat!

  36. Good Comment?
    Mike Huang

    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

  37. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

    I doubt that

  38. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

    I am also a reader. Lolcats rule !

  39. Good Comment?
    King Jacob

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

  40. Good Comment?
    johnCard

    silly freak, that’s funny

  41. Good Comment?
    King Jacob

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

  42. Good Comment?
    Joe

    They’d be funnier without the baby talk.

    That said, congrats guys. Way to go.

  43. Good Comment?
    * Miss Universe

    One would have thought they were inspired by Cute Overload

  44. Good Comment?
    Scott Weaver

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

  45. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Confession

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

  46. Good Comment?
    Think Like An SOB

    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!

  47. Good Comment?
    mariam

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

  48. Good Comment?
    nashville

    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

  49. Good Comment?
    Scott Weaver

    Heh heh. That is pretty funny.

  50. Good Comment?
    Awesome!

    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

  51. Good Comment?
    Nicholas James

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

  52. Good Comment?
    Brian Free

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

  53. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Unleashed

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

  54. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Unleashed

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

  55. Good Comment?
    gambit32

    Jer meets all the cool folk

  56. Good Comment?
    Thomas Sinfield

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

  57. Good Comment?
    Aleks

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

  58. Good Comment?
    Rhys

    I POOP RAINBOWS

  59. Good Comment?
    Hawaii SEO

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

  60. Good Comment?
    Blog Contests

    hehe, I don’t think anyone gets it

  61. Good Comment?
    youfoundjake

    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.

  62. Good Comment?
    Ginene

    That is great compliment. I love their blog.

  63. Good Comment?
    chrish

    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.

  64. Good Comment?
    Darin Carter

    ok … now that is really funny!
    LOL

    Darin

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