Sign Bunny

Sign Bunny

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Updated May 29, 2019 at 03:36PM EDT by Adam.

Added Sep 17, 2014 at 05:14PM EDT by Don.

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Sign Bunny is a Twitter meme featuring an ASCII art rabbit holding a sign with customized words and phrases. While it appears to have originated among Brazilian Twitter users, tweets containing the rabbit saw a resurgence among English speakers in September 2014.

Origin

On August 13th, 2013, Twitter user @okumaurso[1] posted a tweet (shown below, left) featuring an ASCII cat holding a sign containing a rabbit head and the Portuguese word "PROCURA-SE" ("Wanted" in English). On August 22nd, Twitter user @O_Raul[3] posted a tweet (shown below, right) in which the cat was replaced with a rabbit and the phrase "Cadê o porquinho" ("Where is the pig?" in English).


* Camila Okuma @okumaurso Follow | PROCURA-SE ΛΛ Reply Retweet * Favorite More FAVORITES 10:44 AM -13 Aug 2013 Linha auxiliar do PT 12. Follow @O_Raul Cadê o porquinho????? | づ" 1) Reply Retweet * Favorite More RETWEETSFAVORITES 10 7 4:12 PM-22 Aug 2013

Spread

On September 16th, 2014, Tumblr employee Amber Gordon posted a tweet[2] with a sign bunny holding the phrase "Gurl Please" to The Daily Dot editor Cooper Fleishman (shown below).


Cooper Fleishman @_Cooper 16 Sep Please don't clutter my twitter feed, thanks Follow Amber @missambear @_Cooper |GURL I PLEASEI A) 3:29 PM 16 Sep 2014 RETWEETS 9 FAVORITES

According to The Daily Dot,[9] Gordon's followers subsequently began tweeting their own versions of the sign (shown below).


CIRCLEI ▼Margarita ▼ @margarita 2m Anthony Quintano a@Antho... 1m I I saw the I SUCKSI john r stanton Gdcbigjohn 49s Colin Jones Matthew Perpetua Operpetua 1m LORELAI GILMORE I @margarita And it opened up my eyes I Ben Dreyfuss Gbendreyfuss58s 4:00pm-16 Sep 2014-TweetDeck Reply to Gcolinjones Gmargarita David Teicher GAerocles Gmissambear props. You should starts site that let's anyone create those and just input their own Jordan Valinsky ejordan327 m I WHERE'S I

That day, the Twitter feeds for BuzzFeed,[5] the restaurant chain Denny's,[6] the news site The Huffington Post[7] and the pizza restaurant chain Pizza Hut[8] posted their own sign bunny variations (shown below, clockwise).


Buzz FeeD BuzzFeed BuzzFeed Following |Goslingl is a DILF| づ Reply t Retweet ★ Favorite More RETWEETS FA 1,209 1,437 :44 PM-16 Sep 2014 Denny's @DennysDiner * Follow Denny's DENNY'S I IS LOVE, I I LIFE づ Reply t7 Retweet ★ Favorite More RETWEETS FA 575 :49 PM-16 Sep 2014
Huffington Post @HuffingtonPost * Follow I MY ARMI I HURTS I づ Reply t Retweet ★ Favorite More RETWEETS FAVORITES 409 452 5:05 PM - 16 Sep 2014 Pizza Hut @pizzahut * Follow BUY I ME | PIZZA I づ Reply t Retweet ★ Favorite More RETWEETS FA 1,418 1,033 5:05 PM - 16 Sep 2014

According to the Twitter analytics site Topsy,[4] the ASCII sign bunny was tweeted over 150,000 times in the previous 30 days. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the ASCII rabbit, including Mashable,[10] Metro[11] and The Daily Edge.[12]

Buff Bunny

On April 22nd, 2013, Twitter[13] user @Regumaru_2525 posted a variation on the sign bunny. The post features an ASCII bunny with humanistic muscles (shown below).



Several years later, the meme was revived. On July 21st, 2018, Twitter[14] user @javierabegazo tweeted the Buff Bunny next to the Sign Bunny with the phrase "Don't ever talk to me or my son again." The post (shown below, left) received more than 26,000 retweets and 79,000 likes in three days.

On July 23rd, Twitter[15] user @drunkpupper tweeted the template and replaced the phrase with "i said text me when you get home." The post (shown below, center) received more than 3,900 retweets and 11,000 likes in 24 hours.

That day, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted the Bunny with the phrase "Loving you is not a choice It's who I am." The post (shown below, right) received more than 8,500 retweets and 44,000 likes in 24 hours.


(-人-) Don't ever talk to me or my son y_y ︵ Y︵Y 、.ever again (- .) i said text me when u get home (-(*)') Loving you is not a ノ〈ノ . choice 一 y y ︵ Y 、Y 〉 It's who I am 1、

Chuck Schumer Usage

On May 28th, 2019, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer used the Sign Bunny meme to call Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a hypocrite for saying he would fill a Supreme Court seat in 2020 after McConnell infamously blocked a hearing on Barack Obama's nominee Merrick Garland in 2016, claiming the president following Obama should fill the seat as it was Obama's last year as President.[16]



Twitter users were not amused by Schumer's employment of the meme. User @redsteeze mocked how Schumer had poorly formatted the bunny (shown below, left). User @TheLoveBel0w sarcastically tweeted the tweet was "devastating" and hoped Schumer would have more memes when he was primaried by a more effective challenger (shown below, right).


Tuxedo Mask Follow @TheLoveBel0w Replying to @SenSchumer Devastating. T don't see how he recovers from this tweet. But if he does, l'm sure you'll have more memes waiting for him while he packs the courts. I also hope you keep making memes while you get primaried by someone who actually knows how to fight back. Tuxedo Mask @TheLoveBelow McConnell didn't just block Merrick Garland, he also blocked many of Obama's 2nd term federal judge picks. This has led to a record amount of Trump appointments to the federal bench. These lifetime appointments are 88% white, 76% male, 096 black, - Show this thread 10:57 PM - 28 May 2019

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External References

[1] Twitter – @caosbravo

[2] Twitter – @missamber

[3] Twitter – O_Raul

[4] Topsy – (\__/) || (•ㅅ•) || /   づ\

[5] Twitter – @BuzzFeed

[6] Twitter – @DennysDiner

[7] Twitter – @HuffingtonPost

[8] Twitter – @pizzahut

[9] The Daily Dot – Sign Rabbit Meme

[10] Mashable – Passive Aggressive Sign Bunny

[11] Metro – Passive aggressive sign bunny

[12] The Daily Edge – Sign Bunny

[13] Twitter – @Regumaru_2525

[14] Twitter – @javierabegazo's Tweet

[15] Twitter – @drunkpupper's Tweet

[16] Twitter – @SenSchumer

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