Advice Animals were image macros with an animal's head on a colour-wheel background and a two-line joke in Impact font. Advice Dog started it in 2006; by 2010 Philosoraptor, Socially Awkward Penguin, Courage Wolf, Foul Bachelor Frog and Insanity Wolf filled Reddit's front page and every meme generator site.
- Type
- format
- Origin
- Advice Dog, 2006; the format exploded on Reddit and Tumblr in 2009-2010
- Peak
- 2010-2012
- Example
- Philosoraptor: "If you enjoy wasting time... is that time really wasted?"
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The front page of the internet, before it was
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