About

We Need to Stop Testing Our Products on Animals is a captioned stock photo series in which corporate employees discuss why they need to stop using animal testing. Examples from the image macro series typically use variations of the "phrasal template" "We need to stop testing our products on X."

Origin

On January 31st, 2017, Instagram user @gucci.gameboy^[1] submitted a stock photograph of three people seated at a corporate board room table, captioned with a mock conversation in which a boss asks why their company needs to cease animal testing if the practice is done by shampoo manufacturers, to which the employee replies "Ya but we make dildos" (shown below). Within seven months, the post gained over 15,500 likes.

Spread

On August 7th, Redditor AsapMcQueen1017 submitted an edited version of the image, featuring a gun company that tests its products on schools to /r/dankmemes^[6] (shown below, left). That day, Redditor truitex47 posted a Bush Did 9/11-themed version to /r/dankmemes^[3] )shown below, right). Wtihin 24 hours, the posts gathered upwards of 14,300 points (86% upvoted) and 1,800 points (96% upvoted).

On August 8th, Instagram user @donny.drama^[2] posted a version of the image macro in which the employee says "Ya but we make hammers" (shown below). In six hours, the post gained over 8,000 likes. That day, Redditor gener_memelord submitted an Opium Wars-themed variation of the image macro to /r/dankmemes^[5] (shown below, right). Meanwhile, Redditor dope_fallacy submitted a post asking if the series was worthy of investment to /r/MemeEconomy.^[4]

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