Puppy or Bagel

About

Puppy or Bagel is a series of totally looks like image galleries comparing photographs of various animals to stock photographs of food items.

Origin

On November 20th, 2015, Twitter @teenybiscuit^[2] posted two sets of photos juxtaposing pictures of baby ducks with bunches of bananas, along with the caption "duckling or plantain?" (shown below). Over the next four years, the tweet received more than 1,000 likes and 770 retweets.

Precursor

On July 12th, 2013, French-Canadian food blogger Alexis Brault launched the Hot Dog Legs Tumblr blog, featuring photographs of bare legs taken in first-person perspective and pictures of two sausages ostensibly presented as selfies.

Spread

On March 2nd, 2016, @teenybiscuit^[3] posted a follow-up image featuring pictures of Labradoodle dogs next to stock photographs of fried chicken (shown below). On March 6th, Redditor V1kTri uploaded the image to the /r/funny^[1] subreddit, where it gained over 4,900 votes (91% upvoted) and 60 comments within four days. The following day, @teenybiscuit^[5] posted an image gallery titled "puppy or bagel," containing images of sleeping tan-colored dogs next to pictures of baked bagels (shown below, right). In 48 hours, the post gathered upwards of 13,000 retweets and 12,000 likes.

On March 9th, @teenybiscuit compared various photographs of sheep dogs with floor mops (shown below, left). The same day, Twitter user @teenybiscuit^[6] uploaded an image containing a grid of chihuahua faces next to pictures of blueberry muffins, which received upwards of 19,900 retweets and 17,100 likes in the next 24 hours (shown below, right). On March 10th, Redditor Raikkou posted the chihuahua image to the /r/funny^[4] subreddit, where it received over 7,600 votes (80% upvoted) and 200 comments over the next day.

Search Interest

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