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Horse Sitting In A Chair refers to an AI-generated image of a person with half the body swapped as a Horse Sitting On The Front Porch crossing its legs. The image went viral on Facebook, Twitter (X) and TikTok around September 2023, where it became a popular reaction image.

Origin

On August 29th, 2023, the Facebook page dedicated to sharing AI Art "Uncle Mike's Photography" posted an image of a body swapped as a Horse Sitting On The Front Porch crossing its legs. The post (shown below) garnered over 1,200 likes and 3,900 shares in a month.

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The earliest known viral post using the horse sitting in a chair photoshopped image was posted on X^[1] on September 2nd, 2023, which included the caption "I’m really hungover," amassing over 8.9 million views and 202,000 likes in a week. (shown below)

In the following weeks of September 2023, the montage became a popular reaction image on X. For example, on September 3rd, 2023, X^[2] user @willfulchaos posted an edited version of the sitting horse meme (shown below) to appear similar to Beyoncé's horse from the Renaissance album cover, which garnered over 568,000 views and 28,700 likes in a week.

On September 3dr, 2023, X^[3] user posted a video showing the horse montage before and after the Renaissance album cover edit meme. The post (shown below) amassed roughly 13,500 views and 376 likes in a week.

On September 3rd, 2023, TikTok^[4] user @hex_autism posted the meme was paired with an audio from the Netflix show Bojak Horseman (shown below), which amassed over 5.9 million plays and 1.5 million likes in a week.

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