About

Dinosaur In The Rain or Dinosaur Standing In Thunderstorm refers to an image macro meme featuring an illustration of a dinosaur from a picture book. Illustrated by John Sibbick, the book contains an image of a Plateosaurus standing in the rain. The image was first scanned and posted to the internet in 2014 before it was turned into a meme in the early 2020s. The image is often described as "hard" or "badass" due to the dinosaur's brooding expression and dramatic background.

Origin

On November 27th, 2014, the BlogSpot blog^[1] "Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs" made a post about the book When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth by David Norman and John Sibbick. The post delved into the vintage dinosaur art in the book, drawing attention to a particularly striking photo showing a "Plateosaurus" in a thunderstorm (seen below).

Spread

On August 19th, 2017, the image of the dinosaur in the rain was reposted to Reddit's /r/me_irl,^[2] gathering 36 upvotes in seven years. On November 19th, 2022, a cropped and recaptioned version of the image was posted to Tumblr^[3] by teathattast (seen below, left). On May 31st, 2023, X^[4] user @cmkosemen posted the image with the caption, "No one knows what it's like…🎵 To be the bad man…🎵 To be the sad man…🎵"

On September 1st, 2022, X^[6] user @pfa4ever posted a version of the meme with the text "I had to make a couple bands by my lonely" on it. The post gathered over 4,000 likes in two weeks (seen below, left). On July 3rd, 2023, X^[5] user @mastergoobway posted the image with the caption, "How it feels to have one beer left in the fridge," gathering over 13,000 likes in nine months (seen below, right).

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