black dog with a phone held to its ear and the caption HELLO YES THIS IS DOG

Yes, This is Dog

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About

“Yes, This is Dog” (also known as "Hello, This is Dog") is an image macro series featuring a black Labrador anthropomorphized with the caption as if it is answering the telephone. The phrase and image have been remixed into a variety of different photographs often including other animals in anthropomorphic situations.

Origin

The trope of anthropomorphizing domesticated pets has been seen prior to this series, most notably with LOLcat image macros in 2005, Dogfort comics in 2010 and "I Have No Idea What I'm Doing" images in 2011. The earliest known instance of the image macro featuring the caption "Yes, This is Dog" was posted by Tumblr blogger VivaDixies[8] on October 2nd, 2011.


HELLO YES, THIS IS DOG

The photograph of the black Labrador originated from the 1984 Serbian film Pejzaži u magli ("Foggy Landscapes"), directed by Serbian director Jovan Jovanović.[7][10] The scene is shown at 2:15 in the film:



Spread

On October 4th, 2011, the image was reposted in a Reddit thread titled "It's for you, boy"[1], reaching the front page of the /r/funny subreddit with over 20,000 up votes. On October 30th, Redditor[3] shivs4kids submitted an image of Duane "Dog" Chapman, the star of the reality series Bounty Hunter, with the caption "Hello? Yes, This is Dog" that received over 6,000 up votes within 6 weeks.


HELLO? YES, THIS JS DO

In early November 2011, another variation based on the same image was posted by Canvas user idontlikewords in a #Funny thread[9], which spawned several dozens of derivatives.


DOG YOU GOT A PHONE CALI! HELLO YES, THIS IS DOG DOG YOU GOT A PHONE CALL! HELLO YES, THIS IS DO S YOUR REIGERATORRUNNING2 DOG YOU GOT A PHONE CALL! HELLO YES, THIS IS DO SORRY WRONG NUMBER DOG YOU GOT A PHONE CALL! HELLO NO, THIS IS NOT BAXTER

On November 24th, YouTuber MrWeebl uploaded a video titled "Telephone Dog" animated by Something Awful goon Shmorky:



On December 12th, the humor blog Smosh[2] published a compilation of "Hello, this is dog" images. Additional derivatives have spread to Tumblr[5], FunnyJunk[6] and A Facebook[4] fan page has accumulated 753 "likes" as of December 14th, 2011.

Notable Examples


HELLO YES, THIS IS D0G HELLO. IS IT ME YOURE LOOKING FORA HELLO YES, THIS IS D0G HELLO YES, THIS IS D0 HELLO DOG, THIS IS HORSE DERSON HELLO Iknow you're out there..I can feel you now.I know that you're afraid.You're afraid of us, you're afraid ofchange..Idon't know the future..I didn't come here to tell you howthis is going to end, I came here to tell you how this isgoing to begin HELLO YES, THIS IS D0G Yo dog, we hea- HELL YES. THIS IS DO ayo dawg dis flocka AYO FLOCKA DIS DAWG

Derivatives


HELLO? YES THIS IS HORSE! HELLO THIS IS STEVE DOGS Hi, THIS IS CAT YES, THISIS BUNNY to LG HELLO Sprint NO, THISS SPIDER HELLO YES, THIS IS BEE

Search Interest

Search queries for "this is dog" "yes this is dog" and "hello this is dog" increased dramatically in October of 2011.

External References

[1] Reddit – It's for you, boy

[2] Smosh (via Wayback Machine) – Best of Hello, This is Dog

[3] Reddit – Yes, This is Dog

[4] Facebook – Hello. Yes, This is Dog

[5] Tumblr – #this is dog

[6] Funny Junk – this is dog

[7] Wikipedia – Rade Šerbedžija

[8] Tumblr – VivaDixies

[9] Canvas (via Wayback Machine) – Posted in #Funny

[10] Internet Movie Database – Pejzazi u magli

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