Animals Talking In All Caps

About

Animals Talking in All Caps^[1] is a single topic blog featuring image macros of various animals ranging from wild animals to domestic pets accompanied by captions personifying the creatures depicted in the photographs.

Origin

The blog was started by Justin Valmassoi^[2] on July 10th, 2011 with 35 different posts of animals ranging from piranhas to polar bears. The posts received anywhere from 11 to 1700 notes, with the top photo^[3] being of several deer in a field, with one placing his front leg on the hind of another.

Spread

The site was first featured on Buzzfeed^[5] in September 2011. In November, the link was shared on Metafilter^[6] and Feministing.^[7] After appearing in Buzzfeed’s list of the best Tumblr blogs of 2011^[8] in early December, the blog was featured in Rhode Island’s Daily Herald blog.^[9] The Facebook^[10] page for the site has over 1900 likes as of December 2011.

On December 6th, 2011, Justin did an interview with The Next Web^[4], stating he started the blog as a place to keep all of the captioned animal pictures he had created in one spot for an ex-girlfriend. When asked if anything awesome had happened as a result of the blog, he answered, “ The sheer number of ‘You have totally brightened my day’ or ‘This is my favorite Tumblr’ messages I receive means more to me than I can properly express.”

Notable Examples

Search Interest

Search for “Animals Talking in All Caps” began to register in September 2011 when the site was initially featured on Buzzfeed.

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