About

Mr. Bubz refers to a viral video of a dog growling and hissing when a person tells him, "Yeah, I got you. I got this on camera."

Origin

On August 23rd, 2018, instagram ^[1] user @jameswilliampenland posted a video of a man holding a growling dog named Mr. Bubz. At the end of the video, an person off screen says to the dog, "Yeah, I got you. I got this on camera." The post (shown below) received more than 8,000 likes and 56,000 views in five days.

Spread

Four days later, YouTuber Landmaschinenfreak V shared the video on YouTube. The post (shown below) received more than 300,000 views in two days.

The video received mostly positive reactions online. That day, Twitter ^[2] user @megsfrantz posted the video. They added the caption, "have not stopped thinking about this since I saw it. it’s so good." Within two days, the post (shown below, left) received more than 140,000 retweets and 328,000 likes. Over the next two days, people continued to praise the video (example below, right).

Several media outlets covered the video, including The Daily Dot, ^[3] Mashable ^[4] and more.

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