Terrible Tiger

Terrible Tiger

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Updated Oct 31, 2019 at 03:51AM EDT by Y F.

Added Jan 18, 2015 at 04:54AM EST by Particle Mare.

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About

Terrible Tiger is an advice animal series featuring an image of a tiger resting its head on a rock and gazing lazily towards the viewer. The captions typically follow a bait-and-switch model to the opposite effect of Successful Black Man; a seemingly innocuous, amiable, or admirable top caption, followed by a dark twist in the bottom caption.

Origin

On August 6th, 2012, Redditor Zachcvh submitted the first known example of the meme (shown below, left), with the caption “I ate that bear” in reference to Confession Bear, in an /r/AdviceAnimals post titled “Confession Tiger”.[1] Subsequent early variants made the tiger a rival of, or alternative[2] to, Confession Bear, although often with an added tongue-in-cheek twist.


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At first, due to the similarity of the meme to Confession Bear, a large portion of its derivative content was meta and self-referencing in nature (example shown above, right).

Spread

On March 30th, 2014, Imgur user ZoranKnight submitted two compilations (examples shown below) titled "Tiger Meme: Part 1"[3] and "Terrible Tiger: Part 2"[4] respectively, reaching the website's front page. The posts coincided with the meme's search interest skyrocketing.


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A third compilation, titled "Terrible Tiger: Part 3"[5] was submitted by ZoranKnight on April 2nd, also reaching the front page of Imgur.

Notable Examples


ISUGGESTED TOMYWIFE THATSHED LOOKSEXIER WITH HERHAIR BACK WHICH IS APPARENTLY AN INSENSITIVE THING TOSAY TOA CANCER PATIENT I TRIED BEING NICE TO AWOMANBY HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN FOR HER BUT FOR SOME REASON SHE DIDNT SEEM TO LIKE IT.. SHE KEPT SCREAMING T'M PEEING IN HERE MY WIFETREATS ME LIKE A GOD SHE TAKES VERY LITTLE NOTICE OF MY EXISTENCE UNTIL SHE WANTS SOMETHING
M NOT SEKIST,SEXISM IS WRONG NOT SEXIST AND BEING WRONG IS FOR WOMEN IM NOT CONVINCED THAT FAITH CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS BUT IVE SEEN WHAT IT CAN DO TO SKYSCRAPERS OPENED A COMPANY SELLING LANDMINES THAT LOOK LIKE PRAYER MATS PROPHETS ARE GOING THROUGL THE ROO maide on imgur

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