Kevin Rose's Raccoon Toss
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Overview
Kevin Rose's Raccoon Toss refers to security camera footage of Digg founder Kevin Rose throwing a wild raccoon down a flight of stairs after he discovered the animal attacking his pet dog Toaster.
Background
On July 20th, 2013, Rose uploaded a video titled "My dog Toaster was attacked by a raccoon" to YouTube, which featured two different camera angles of Rose pulling a raccoon off of his dog and throwing it down a flight of stairs outside of his apartment (shown below). Within the first 72 hours, the video gained over 5.4 million views and 34,000 comments.
Notable Developments
On the same day, Redditor Diuhbeetus submitted the video to the /r/videos[1] subreddit, where it received more than 28,300 up votes and 3,900 comments in the next 48 hours. Immediately after, Redditor kukamunga submitted a looped GIF of the raccoon toss to the /r/gifs[2] subreddit (shown below), accumulating upwards of 22,200 up votes and 1,100 comments within the same time frame.
Also on July 20th, Tech Crunch[3] published an article about the video, which compared it to an animated GIF of apes throwing a raccoon at a zoo. On July 21st, Redditor HumpmeBear suibmitted a screenshot of Kevin Rose's Wikipedia page to the /r/funny[11] subreddit, which had been edited to include the description "Feared by racoons [sic] across the United States" (shown below, left). On July 22nd, Rose posted a photo on Instagram[10] of Toaster with the caption "resting up after the raccoon attacked him" (shown below, right).
![Kevin Rose 0) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other people named Kevin Rose, see Kevin Rose (disambiguation). This article has been nominated to be checked for its neutrality. Discussion of this nomination can be found on the talk page. (March 2012) Kevin Rose (born Robert Kevin Rose, February 21, 1977) is a former American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. As of 2012, he is a venture partner at States Kevin Rose Feared by racoons across the United Contents [hidel 1 Personal life 2 Career 2.1 Television 2.1.1 Guest appearances 2.2 Podcasting 2.3 Startups 2.4 Google 2.5 Venture capitalist 3 References 4 External links Born February 21, 1977 (age 36) Redding, California, United States Personal life [edit] Nationality American Rose was born in Redding, Californial1 and lived in Oregon before his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent most of his childhood. He became an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America Rose transferred to Vo-Tech High School in Las Vegas in 1992. He then attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, majored in computer science but dropped out in 1998.(4 He worked for two dot-com startups through CMGI. he married Darya Pino.15) Spouse(s) Darya Pino (2013 - present) Website kevin rose, com In 2013](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/580/202/6ad.jpg "6ad.jpg")
In the coming days, articles about the raccoon attack were published on several news sites, including Gawker,[5] Time,[6] Business Insider,[7] The Huffington Post,[8] The Daily Mail[4] and CNET.[9]
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – Kevin Rose (Digg founder) throwing a raccoon to save his dog from attack
[2] Reddit – I tried to make the Kevin Rose raccoon gif loop smoothly
[3] TechCrunch – How this kid tossed one raccoon
[4] Daily Mail – Moment Digg founder picked up and threw raccoon down flight of stairs
[5] Gawker – Digg founder Kevin Rose fights off raccoon
[6] Time – Digg founder Kevin Rose throws raccoon down stairs
[7] Business Insider – Heres the best GIF youll see of digg founder kevin roses raccoon toss
[8] The Huffington Post – Kevin Rose Digg Founder throws raccoon
[9] CNET – Kevin Rose raccoon-tossing meme taking flight
[10] Instagram – Toaster resting up
![Kevin Rose 0) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other people named Kevin Rose, see Kevin Rose (disambiguation). This article has been nominated to be checked for its neutrality. Discussion of this nomination can be found on the talk page. (March 2012) Kevin Rose (born Robert Kevin Rose, February 21, 1977) is a former American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. As of 2012, he is a venture partner at States Kevin Rose Feared by racoons across the United Contents [hidel 1 Personal life 2 Career 2.1 Television 2.1.1 Guest appearances 2.2 Podcasting 2.3 Startups 2.4 Google 2.5 Venture capitalist 3 References 4 External links Born February 21, 1977 (age 36) Redding, California, United States Personal life [edit] Nationality American Rose was born in Redding, Californial1 and lived in Oregon before his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he spent most of his childhood. He became an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America Rose transferred to Vo-Tech High School in Las Vegas in 1992. He then attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, majored in computer science but dropped out in 1998.(4 He worked for two dot-com startups through CMGI. he married Darya Pino.15) Spouse(s) Darya Pino (2013 - present) Website kevin rose, com In 2013](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/000/580/202/6ad.jpg "6ad.jpg")
Top Comments
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Jul 23, 2013 at 08:53PM EDT
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Jul 23, 2013 at 10:16PM EDT