Pickup Line Panda

About

Pick Up Line Panda is an advice animal image macro series based on a picture of a panda bear standing by a tree stub with a beer bottle. The captioned jokes typically begins with a predictable pickup cliche followed by a sentence that is contrasted by lack of subtlety.

Origin

The trope of cheesy pick up line cliches has been previously documented and explored through various internet humor sites^[1] and the mainstream media prior to the rise of user-generated content on the web. The original advice animal instance was first posted via Reddit by user SotorDamotor on February 14th, 2011 in a thread titled “Introducing Pickup Line Panda [crosspost].”^[2]

Spread

The thread was fairly well-received on Reddit’s AdviceAnimals subreddit and went on to spawn over a dozen of derivative uploads via Quickmeme^[3] on the same day. Within days, the image macros swiftly spread across other internet humor blogs like Memebase^[4], Urlesque^[5] and FunnyJunk^[6], as well as gaining a strong social network following through the Facebook fan page^[7] and single topic Tumblr “Fuck Yeah Pickup Line Panda.”^[8]

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