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Blurry Dogs refers to photographs of dogs taken while the dog is in motion, resulting in a blurring effect. They've spread online as people find the photographs cute since the motion generally indicates the dog's excitement.

Origin

Pictures of blurry dogs have been shared online for several years. One of the earliest known posts celebrating a photograph of blurry dogs was posted on April 9th, 2006 by Steve's Digicams forums user JunixRose.^[1]

Spread

Over the course of the following decade, small online communities developed around blurry dog photography. A small Flickr^[2] group devoted to blurry dog photography launched on October 24th, 2008. A subreddit devoted to such photos, /r/blurrypicturesofdogs,^[3] launched June 29th, 2015, and gained over 4,300 members. Some pictures of blurry dogs have gone particularly viral. For example, a blurry photograph of a Shiba Inu shaking water off its body has appeared in several viral posts. It began circulating in early 2015, and was posted by Twitter account shibesbot^[4] on April 28th of that year (shown below, left). On June 10th, Twitter account @dolandark ^[5] trolled the PETA Twitter account by tweeting them a picture of a dog, saying it was actually a giant drill, gaining over 680 retweets (shown below, right).

Very Fast Doggo Running At Incredible Hihg Speed

On January 11th, 2015, Tumblr user clark-cant uploaded a picture of a running Golden Retriever with a Google search bar at the top displaying the phrase "VERY fast dog running at incredible hihg speed". This led to a series of memes based around blurry dog photography under the name Very Fast Doggo Running At Incredible Hihg Speed

Blur Dogs

On November 21st, 2017, Twitter user @thisjenlewis^[6] tweeted a blurry picture of her family’s dog excited to see her home for Thanksgiving (shown below). She then implored her followers to share some blurry photos of their dogs in similar situations. The responses she got were compiled into a Twitter Moment^[7] the following morning.

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