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Dog Petting Photoshops
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About
Dog Petting Photoshops refer to images popular on /r/me_irl and elsewhere in which pictures are photoshopped such that an image of a hand petting a dog's head is superimposed on an image of a person, making it appear that that person is petting the dog.
Origin
The photoshops began appearing on Reddit's /r/me_irl subreddit on November 15th, 2017. Using a stock photo of a hand petting a dog,[1] Redditor Blase_E_S uploaded a picture of a high jumping man with his hand petting a dog, gaining over 4,300 upvotes (shown below).[5]
Spread
Over the following several days, dog-petting edits appeared en masse on me_irl. For example, a post applying the dog with Armed Adam gained over 1,500 upvotes (shown below, left).[2] Another edit which used the dog within the picture of a dog posted the 17th gained over 4,400 upvotes (shown below, right).[3]
The edits also began seeing spread outside the subreddit. The me_irl Twitter account tweeted the pole-vaulting edit on the 16th, gaining over 6,800 retweets and 16,000 likes (shown below, left).[4] An edit combining several memes appeared on /r/dankmemes on November 21st, gaining over 5,000 upvotes (shown below, right).
Various Examples
Search Interest
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External References
[1] Shutterstock – Closeup Obedience Dog
[2] Reddit – Armed Adam Edit
[3] Reddit – Dogception
[5] Reddit – Pole Vault Image
Top Comments
Adam Staff
Nov 27, 2017 at 02:51PM EST in reply to
Jack the Dipper
Nov 27, 2017 at 04:06PM EST