Dorime Rat — Taxidermy mouse dressed as the Pope with 'Dorime' text overlay on black background

Dorime Rat

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Published October 8, 2026

Dorime Rat, also known as Rato Dorime, pairs a taxidermied mouse dressed as the pope with the chant from Era's 1996 song "Ameno" for a bait-and-switch gag. Brazilian users stitched the audio and image together in late 2019, and within three months the Pope Rat had its own fan art, Instagram account, and a browser platformer.

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Overview

The gag plays like a Portuguese-language cousin of Rickrolling. Scroll into a reply chain or click an innocuous link and up comes the pope-mouse still with Era's booming pseudo-Latin chorus, usually captioned "You have been Dorimed"3. The source image is from taxidermy artist Jeanie M, whose "mouse-a-dermy" series produced the vestment-wearing Pope Mouse that got welded to the song2.

Posts tend to keep the image untouched and let the audio or caption do the setup work. Pixel art, 8-bit covers, and animated loops have all pulled from the same single frame rather than drawing new poses1.

Origin & Background

Platform
Memedroid (earliest post) / Brazilian social media (viral spread)
Date
2019

The photo predates the meme by nearly a decade. Jeanie M's taxidermied Pope Mouse was uploaded to the Tumblr blog Crappy Taxidermy on August 1, 2010, where it was reblogged for years before the Dorime treatment arrived2. The mice had reached Jeanie through a business associate who donated them after they went unused as snake food3.

The meme itself emerged from Brazilian social media in late 2019, where users were already remixing Era's "Ameno" and started pairing the Pope Mouse photo with the chant. The earliest documented post is a November 29, 2019 upload to Memedroid by user Ianki_mr titled "Ameno ameno," which drew 454 likes4.

How It Spread

On December 11, 2019, YouTuber Davinisk uploaded a looped Pope Mouse video set to the Era track; it has drawn roughly 2 million views and more than 126,000 likes5. The format jumped onto Facebook within days, with Portuguese-language pages like Todo dia um novo motivo para reconquistar reposting on December 16, 20198.

Twitter picked it up next. On December 26, 2019, user @dinotv (Alexis o Dino) posted a Dorime edit into the Lusophone timeline6. A fan-run @dorime_rat Instagram started on January 11, 2020, posting the single image daily, and on February 13, 2020, Redditor Het_Bluephomet drew their own version for r/nhaa that cleared nearly 5,000 upvotes7.

By February 2020 the meme had jumped into game dev. UNIRIO students Daniel Andrade and João Vitor Sousa released "Tales of Dorime: Ameno's Rescue," a browser-playable gothic Metroidvania where you steer Pope Rat through a demon-filled dungeon over an 8-bit "Ameno" track, which IGN Brasil covered on February 12, 20201. Andrade told the outlet, "The idea was to make a Gothic Metroidvania because it made perfect sense when we thought about a mouse-pope that was going to fight demons" (translated from Portuguese)1.

Timeline

2010-08-01

Taxidermy artist Jeanie M's Pope Mouse image is posted to the Tumblr blog Crappy Taxidermy, nine years before the meme format exists.

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How to Use This Meme

Common convention is to drop the Pope Mouse image at the end of an unrelated post, caption some variant of "Dorime" or "You have been Dorimed," and let the Era chorus do the rest3. Edits usually loop the still to the song for a few seconds before cutting out; pixel and animated versions tend to recreate the frame rather than replace it5.

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