cute sculpture of a baby platypus in a person's hand

Baby Platypus Sculpture

Updated Feb 20, 2020 at 08:53AM EST by Y F.

Added Feb 19, 2020 at 10:44AM EST by Sophie.

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About

Baby Platypus Sculpture is an image macro of artist Vladimir Matić-Kuriljov's sculpture of a small baby platypus made in July 2019. The image, which fooled some into thinking it was a real platypus, went viral on Reddit, Twitter and Instagram in February 2020.

Origin

On July 21st, 2019, fantasy artist Vladimir Matić-Kuriljov posted several photos of his "Stone Platypus Baby" sculpture to ArtStation.[2] The artist commented, "Sculpted in Super Sculpey, painted with acrylics. Probably the cutest thing I ever made." (shown below). The post gained 56,900 views and 69 likes in six months.



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On February 14th, 2020, Redditor i124nk8 posted a photo of the sculpture to r/photoshopbattles[3] and gained 65,900 points (88% upvoted) in five days. Redditor Bert_the_Avenger replied by posting a photoshop with the comment "platypodes all the way down"which garnered 4,300 points in five days (shown below, left). Twitter user @BeefedUpStud[4] shared a photo of the sculpture with the caption, "I think he looks nice" and received over one million likes in four days. Twitter user @victor_pesina[5] replied with a Perry the Platypus, of Phineas and Ferb, inspired hat edit (shown below, right). The comment accumulated over 9,800 likes and 620 retweets in three days.


vic @victor_pesina Replying to @BeefedUpStud 1:27 AM · Feb 16, 2020 · Twitter for iPhone

On February 17th, Instagram user possumkraton69[6] posted the image of the sculpture with the text "Baby platypus said arm the poor" which gained over 1,300 likes in a day (shown below). StayHipp[1] published an article on Baby Platypus sculpture memes.


BABY PLATYPUS SAID SAID ARM THE POOR

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fyou could NOT iwould like that, @queerhôtsauce ESCUE 0436 This baby platypus just told me oil companies should be held accountable for killing the planet and lying about it @climemechange

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External References

[1] StayHipp – Baby Platypus Memes

[2] ArtStation – Stone Platypus Baby

[3] Reddit – r/photoshopbattles

[4] Twitter – BeefedUpStud

[5] Twitter – victor_pensina

[6] Instagram – possumkratom69

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