Pancake Bunny (2001)

Origin

Pancake Bunny or Waffle Bunny was a rabbit from Japan named Oolong who was trained by his owner Hironori Akutagawa, to balance objects on his head. After a few years of posting these to his website, his images were discovered by a website called Syberpunk and rose to national mainstream attention in the U.S. a picture of Oolong was featured in the story “Prospecting For Gold Among the Photo Blogs” published in The New york Times on May 25th, 2003.

Over the course of Oolong’s short life, Akutagawa took hundreds of photographs of the rabbit balancing a wide variety of small, light objects on its head. Oolong passed on January 7th, 2003.

Common Appearance and Usage

The Pancake Bunny typically sighted with the text “I have no idea what you’re talking about… so here’s a bunny with a pancake on its head.” This is a dismissive respons similar to “My hair is a bird. Your argument is invalid” or the simpler “tl;dr.”

Due to the moderately impressive feat being performed by a cute animal, and the dismissive tone of the caption, the image macro was a hit. Variations feature the bunny photoshopped to appear to be balancing other objects on his head, or other animals with pancakes on their heads.