Will You Fight? Or Will You Perish Like A Dog?
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Will You Fight? Or Will You Perish Like a Dog? refers to an exploitable image of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse having a conversation about philosophy. The dramatic conversation ends with Mickey saying "Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog?" The characters are changed in the exploitable versions.
Origin
The image originally featured a joke of Mickey saying to Donald "Holy shit a talking duck!" One of the earliest examples was posted to the blogspot soberinanightclub[1] on April 28th, 2010 (shown below).
The "Perish like a dog" variation appeared on Facebook page "Non-existent Existentialst Memes on March 23rd, 2015.[7] It was reposted to Tumblr by rulesofthirds[2] later that day and gained over 101,000 notes (shown below).
Spread
On April 4th, 2015, an image of Pepe The Frog with the quote to Meme Generator (shown below, left).[3] On January 3rd, 2016, a variation of If a Dog Wore Pants was posted to Funnyjunk (shown below, right).[4]
On June 12th, 2016, ProZD uploaded a video of himself reading the comic, gaining over 263,000 views (shown below).
In the following year, more exploitable versions began appearing online. For example, on March 11th, 2017, Tumblr user manachi34[5] uploaded a version featuring Bendy and Cuphead to Tumblr, gaining over 877 notes (shown below, left). A similar image was posted by Tumblr user protectkirby on May 31st in a post that gained over 300 notes (shown below, right).[6]
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Soberinanightclub – A talking duck.
[2] Tumblr – Ruleofthirds
[3] Meme Generator – Hypocrite That You Are
[4] Funnyjunk – If A Dog Wore Pants
[6] Tumblr – protectkirby
[7] Facebook – Non-existent existentialist memes]
Top Comments
RedWizzrobe
Dec 13, 2017 at 08:30PM EST
I am AHO Right?
Dec 13, 2017 at 07:38PM EST