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Toothless Presents Himself
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About
Toothless Presents Himself refers to a memorable scene from 2019 animated film How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in which black dragon Toothless follows cues from his dragon-rider Hiccup to introduce himself to a white female dragon. Online, a three-panel image based on the scene has been used as an exploitable for object-labeling memes.
Origin
On February 3rd, 2019, DreamWorks Animation animated fim How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World premiered.[1] In one scene of the fim, dragon Toothless meets a white female dragon (Light Fury). During the scene, Toothless follows cues from his dragon-rider Hiccup in order to present himself to Light Fury.
Spread
On June 5th, 2019, Redditor lil_zagawy posted a three-panel meme based on the scene to /r/dankmemes subreddit where it gained over 74,000 upvotes in two days (shown below, left).[2] On the same day, lil_zagawy posted a template for the meme (shown below, right).[3]
![Love y’all <3 Me making very questionable memes Society Other people on Reddit](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/869/2f3.jpg)
![Toothless Presents Himself Template](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/870/082.jpg)
In the following days, multiple posts utilzing the format were posted to /r/dankmemes and other subreddits. For example, posts made by Redditor bigbo22 on June 5th in /r/dankmemes[4] and /r/memes[5] subreddits, gained over 20,800 and 23,200 upvotes in two days, respectively (shown below, left). A post made by Redditor Yacobbbb on June 6th received over 51,300 upvotes in two days (shown below, right).[6]
![Happened IRL Me asking for her cup size My girl classmate My friend who told me cup sizes are for shoes](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/871/216.jpg)
![Sorry mom hot girl doing her first p---- her me at 3am parents](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/872/64e.jpg)
Various Examples
![Posting for a friend. Weird p--- My brain My pp](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/873/eee.jpg)
![101 Strats Solo Teammate rushing B Whole enemy team Rest of team slow pushing A](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/875/6a2.png)
![I'm just trying to be creative mine s----- drawn meme shitposters like me actually talented redditors](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/878/f68.jpg)
![Ya’ll surely understand it, right? Me making live-adaptation of a meme so normies can't understand it](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/881/eb1.jpg)
![how to train the boys me making a crossover meme with the boys reddit the boys](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/884/6fc.png)
![Thanks for encouraging me, mom 8 year old me that wants to order by myself The McDonald's cashier My mom imgflip.com](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/886/9a9.jpg)
Template
![Toothless Presents Himself Template](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/500/870/082.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
[2] Reddit – Love y’all
[3] Reddit – My meme with this template (Ye it’s mine) hit 60k
[4] Reddit – Happened IRL
[5] Reddit – Happened IRL
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