About

Cool Dog refers to an image of a Shiba Inu dog with its elbow coolly bent over a doghouse roof. The image gained traction as an Advice Dog variant, and in various photoshops.

Origin

The origin of Cool Dog is unknown, with many of the earliest sites hosting it now unavailable. One of the earliest remaining uploads of the image was uploaded to sguenis.blogspot.com^[2] by Cristal on November 5th, 2008. Another early example exists on old.marcofolio.net^[1] in a post titled, "[Imagedump] November 2008."

Spread

Cool dog spread across the web through reposts to various sites and as an advice animal, often attributed with stereotypically "cool" phrases.

On May 4th, 2009, a version of the meme was uploaded to the Motivational Posters Online blog^[3] (shown below).

On December 17th, 2009, mjoven1975 uploaded an advice dog variant of the meme reading "cool story bro" to fark.com^[4] (shown below, left). On November 21st, 2010, another variation of the meme was posted to Memebase^[5] (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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