Toothless Presents Himself
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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]
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]
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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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