Cheezburger: History and Key Facts

Cheezburger is an American digital media brand and website focused on viral stories, internet culture, memes, and humor. Based in New York City, the brand was founded in Seattle in 2007 by Ben Huh, who had purchased the blog I Can Has Cheezburger at the domain icanhascheezburger.com from Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami.

After securing the I Can Has Cheezburger name Huh founded the new Cheezburger website and brand under parent company Pet Holdings Inc, becoming CEO. I Can Has Cheezburger and its original domain became a key subdomain of the new Cheezburger parent site which was referred to as "The Cheezburger" or "The Cheezburger Blog" in early reporting on the emerging brand. Fail Blog was purchased in 2008 and became another prominent addition to the site with several others being added as of July that same year. Cheezburger was widely referred to as The Cheezburger Network by Huh in interviews when referring to the growing collection of sites and this became a name that was often used at the time.

Huh resigned in 2015 amid dwindling page views and layoffs. The site and brand were purchased by Literally Media in 2016 from Pet Holdings Inc. and are now owned and operated by the media company.

Today Cheezburger actively publishes to the main site and several still-active sub-brands, including I Can Has Cheezburger?, Fail Blog, Memebase, Geek Universe, and Animal Comedy, publishing articles on subjects including: internet culture, workplace and social issues, and humor collections of animals and memes.

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