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Pineapple Dad refers to a series of photoshops inspired by Reddit post that features a father sitting on a stool and holding a pineapple.

Origin

On June 25th, 2017, Redditor vlone17 posted a picture of his father on a stool and holding a pineapple on the /r/funny subreddit.^[1] The picture (shown below) appeared in the thread entitled "My dad has been trying to grow pineapples for the last year, today he succeeded, look how proud he is" and received more than 88,000 points (82% upvoted) and 1,800 comments in three days.

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The following day, on June 26th, Redditor Bahet photoshopped the image so that it appeared as though the dad was holding a smaller version of himself holding the pineapple. Bahet's post, entitled "My dad has been trying to grow dads who can grow pineapples for the last year, today he succeeded, look how proud he is" (shown below, left), received more than 45,000 points (75% upvoted) and 440 comments in two days.

The next day, Redditor aledlewis posted a variation in which the dad's head and pineapple are switched, so that the father's head is a pineapple and he's holding his own head.^[5] The post (shown below, right) received more than 76,000 points (69% upvoted) and 700 commetns in two days.

That day, Redditor Cara_Libro posted a variation of the picture using the "Droste Effect."/memes/droste-effect Posted in the thread "My dad has been trying to grow infinite dads for the last year, today he succeeded, look how proud they are." The gif (shown below) received more than 68,000 points (74% upvoted) and 1,000 comments.^[3]

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