![Love This Animal Love This Animal](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/040/047/lta.jpg)
Love This Animal
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About
Love This Animal refers to a series of image macros where an animal is shown, captioned, "LOVE THIS ANIMAL" followed by a misspelled version of the animal's name. The original meme, showing a crab mislabeled "crap" was uploaded to Tumblr in April 2021, the format spreading across social media over the course of the year.
Origin
On April 17th, 2021, Tumblr[1] user 00ff80 posted an image macro of a crab captioned, "love this animal the crap," gaining over 95,000 notes in a year (shown below).
![love this animal the crap LOVE THIS ANIMAL THE CRAP](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/674/875.jpg)
Spread
Various Tumblr[2] users reblogged 00ff80's post adding their own variations of the format over the following months, including images of carps labeled "carb" and a squid labeled "squit" (examples shown below). The phrase "love this animal" occasionally devolves into "love this animals" in future variations of the format.
![the carb LOVE THIS ANIMAL THE CARB imgflip.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/676/33a.jpg)
![the squit love this animal the squit](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/677/46c.jpg)
Reposts and new versions of the meme continued to appear on Tumblr over the course of the year, as well as spread outside of Tumblr. On September 29th, 2021, Instagram[3] user epicjoko posted a version of the meme with a moth, gaining over 151,000 likes in seven months (shown below).
![Freaking epic! Stupid girls won't understand | /r/okbuddyretard LOVE THIS ANIMAL THE MILF](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/230/259/1ac.jpg)
On October 11th, Instagram[4] user cursedmojiman posted a version using a rooster, captioned "the cock," gaining over 47,000 likes in six months (shown below). On February 15th, 2022, Facebook[5] page Evil Niqqa Memes 3 posted a version of the meme using a squid, gaining over 870 shares and 1,600 reactions in two months.
![the c--- LOVE THIS ANIMAL THE C---](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/708/767.jpg)
Related Memes
MFs Really Named This
MFs Really Named This, also written as MFs Really Called This, is a phrasal template that takes the name of a common object and misrepresents it in a way to produce a comical effect. Typically these memes are a combination of a picture of an object with a photoshopped caption to deliver the joke. Each meme of this type starts with the same setup using a variation of the phrase "MFs really named this" in the top text followed by the punchline in the bottom text.
Various Examples
![the slut LOVE THIS ANIMAL THE SLUT](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/681/8a9.jpg)
![the snack LOVE THIS ANIMAL THE SNACK](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/684/8e9.jpeg)
![the fist LOVE THIS ANIMAL THE FIST](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/687/f73.jpeg)
![the birt LOVE THIS ANIMAL THE BIRT](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/697/ac5.jpeg)
![the cab](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/699/a68.jpg)
![the beep LOVE THIS ANIMALS THE BEEP](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/352/700/9da.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[2] Tumblr – flowing-edge-7
[4] Instagram – cursedmojiman
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Victreebong
Apr 23, 2022 at 07:36PM EDT