About

Pug Vibing refers to remixes of a video in which a dog of the pug breed appears to dance in a basket of laundry. The video has been edited such that various music clips accompany the video, similar to how the STFU I'm Listening To meme developed.

Origin

On October 3rd, 2019, TikTok user @jim71421 posted the original video/ The post received more than 350 reactions in less than two months.

Spread

On October 6th, @jim71421 posted a remix of the video that received more than 2 million views, 295,000 reactins and 36,000 shares in less than two months (shown below).

On October 30th, 2019, Twitter user @indiemoms^[1] tweeted a video of a pug dancing in laundry set to "Blue Monday" by New Order with the text, "Fuck it, pug vibing to New Order," referencing the Fuck It, X meme. The video gained over 27,000 retweets and 95,000 likes (shown below).

The following day, the edit appeared on YouTube, gaining over 9,300 views (shown below, left). The same day, YouTuber saejaelyae posted an edit of the video, setting it to a song by electronic artist John Maus.

The format was also popular on Twitter. On November 11th, user @hailpaimin posted an edit in which the pug dances to a track from the soundtrack to the film Annihilation, gaining over 2,900 retweets and 9,800 likes (shown below, top). In one of the more bizarre edits, Twitter user KristenSoulina posted an edit in which the dog dances to a Bernie Sanders speech set to Philip Glass music (shown below, bottom).

On November 16th, YouTuber Jim G. posted a version of the video without music or effects (shown below).

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