Insanity Puppy

About

Insanity Puppy is an advice animal image macro series of a siberian husky puppy with markings reminiscent of a cartoon villain. He is depicted as a younger version of Insanity Wolf, similar to Baby Courage Pup. The text often consists of a over the top or psychotic reaction to something.

Origin

The original two-pane image shows a siberian husky puppy, whose tag has been blacked out by the original poster. The puppy’s eye markings are reminiscent of stereotypical high-arching villain eyebrows, which have been portrayed through popular cartoon and comics franchises, according to TV Tropes.^[1] The photo was posted to Reddit on September 1st, 2011 by upparoom titled “My puppy will eat your soul and ask for seconds.”^[2] It received 1636 upvotes and 682 comments in the first month.

Redditor DaveFishBulb was the first to call the dog Insanity Pup^[3] two and a half hours after the post was made. The first derivation was posted by TychoVhargon^[4] on the same day, with a Hypnotoad mashup image.

The first image macro to appear outside of Reddit was posted to FunnyJunk^[5] on September 4th, 2011.

Spread

Pleated Jeans^[6] shared a compilation of Insanity Puppy images on September 7th, 2011. The next day, another compilation appeared on Comixed^[7]. On September 14th, Uproxx^[8] featured a slideshow of Insanity Puppy images. In September 2011, Insanity Puppy also appeared on the DailyLaugh^[9], ThumbPress^[10], and Quickmeme.^[11]

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