Little-Known 2020 'Cheems Frog' Meme Sees A Big Revival As A Brainrot Meme

About

Drog, or Wǒ De Dāo Dùn, also known as Cheems Frog or Sword and Shield Doge, is a series of brainrot memes based on an edited Cheems dog / doge image that puts his face on the body of the "It Is Wednesday My Dudes" frog, known as a "drog." In early 2026, the meme saw a surge in virality as it was paired with nonsensical or remix-style meme audios, referencing memes like "What the Dog Doin'," "Pipilabu" or "Bibilabu" and "Baba Booey." The meme is associated with the broader genre of absurdist short-form content circulating on platforms like TikTok and Douyin in the mid-2020s.

As the meme evolved through February and March 2026, it became associated with the Chinese phrase "Wǒ De Dāo Dùn," which translates to "My sword and shield" but phoenetically sounds like "what da dog doin'." Many of the memes using this phrase feature a version of Frog Cheems with a sword and shield.

Origin

Drog

On August 12th, 2020, 9GAG user dogelowd posted an edit of the Cheems meme that presents the dog as the "It Is Wednesday, My Dudes" frog. The post gained about 45 upvotes in six years. This is the earliest known user to share the meme.

On September 17th, 2020, a now-deleted Redditor posted a text message screenshot to the /r/meme subreddit where someone sends the Frog Cheems to another person and calls it "drog," coining the name for the meme, garnering around 30 upvotes in six years.

The "drog" meme spread over the following years, including through an image macro simply adding the word "drog" under the image, which was notably posted by X user @hourly_shitpost on May 4th, 2025, garnering over 10,000 likes in

Spread

Frog Cheems Brainrot / Wǒ De Dāo Dùn

In February 2026, Frog Cheems became the subject of surreal brainrot memes on sites like TikTok and Douyin. The memes often use audios that remix various memes and are sometimes known as "bibilabu." The format typically involves a group of drogs awkwardly uninvited to a human environment, while the brainrot remix audio plays.

One of the earliest examples was posted on February 2nd, 2026 by TikToker @hwthang102, garnering over 1.8 million views in a month. The memes were notably popular on Douyin.

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On February 14th, TikToker @zinminlat5201314 posted a meme that shows a tree full of Cheems Frogs, garnering over 2.5 million views in about three weeks.

On February 24th, TikToker @muchen1117 posted a version of the meme that features Cheems Frog with a sword and shield, garnering over 1.2 million views in just over a week. It was reposted to X the next day by @Sizhe_bitcat, garnering over 21,000 likes and 3,300 reposts in the same span of time.

As the meme continued to go viral it spread to sites including Reddit and X and became entangled with the Chinese phrase "Wǒ De Dāo Dùn," meaning "My sword and shield" and phonetically resembling the phrase "what da dog doin'."

On March 3rd, X user @miragemunny made a post sharing the meme and the translation, garnering over 13,000 likes in three days.

On March 5th, X user @YoCoWoi posted a video of a drog setting a firecracker off under a dog bowl, garnering over 1,800 likes in a day.

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