About

Furry Parents Fighting refers to an image macro and reaction meme showing a piece of furry art (often a moldy version) in which a young anthropomorphic wolf can be seen crying as shadows depict his parents fighting. The image was first posted on FurAffinity before it resurfaced as an ironic reaction image on Twitter / X in 2024.

Origin

On June 1st, 2016, FurAffinity^[1] user Tatujapa posted an image called "Trauma," depicting a bruised and crying younger wolf cowering in the shadows of two fighting wolves, one of whom appears to be holding a bottle. The image seems to be depicting domestic violence, gathering over 7,000 views in 8 years (seen below).

The earliest known use of the image is a December 16th, 2017 post on the subreddit /r/terriblefacebookmemes,^[2] with the text, "So Sad Gamer Moment, Can We Get 1000 Like" in Impact Font (seen below).

Spread

On September 24th, 2023, Redditor^[6] /r/realdemon_ posted a version of the image captioned, "when the mods start arguing in #general," gathering over 400 upvotes in seven months (seen below, left).

On February 27th, 2024, iFunny^[5] user @Barnicle_Fucboi posted a blurry version of the image with each character labeled with a Red Dead Redemption character, gathering over 4,000 likes in three months (seen below, right).

On April 5th, 2024, X^[3] user @KeitrelPick6 posted a blurry version of the image with the caption, "This is what it feels like to be a Kendrick and J Cole fan rn," gathering over over 1,900 likes in a month (seen below, left). On April 25th, 2024, X^[4] user @wormbarf posted the image with the caption, "when you’re third wheeling and they start to argue," gathering over 80,000 likes in two weeks (seen below, right).

Original Artist Responds To The Memes

On February 4th, 2025, X^[7] user @Tatujapa, the original artist behind the meme, replied to a post about the artwork, explaining how they created it as "vent art," that they are in a better position in their life now, and that they enjoy the memes being created with it.

Various Examples

Search Interest

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