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Dog Playing Chess
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About
Dog Playing Chess, or Shiba Playing Chess, refers to an image of a Shiba Inu playing chess against a young boy, the Shiba looking into the camera with a side-eye expression, and the boy stressfully considering his next move in the background. The image was first posted as a meme to Reddit in June 2020, gaining significant use as an exploitable object-labeling format over the course of the next year.
Origin
On June 8th, 2020, Redditor u/AverageSimpleton posted a labeled image to /r/MemeEconomy[1] of a Shiba Inu dog playing chess against a stressed-looking boy, the Shiba in the foreground staring at the camera, and the boy in the background. The labels refer to cheating at a card game (shown below). The post gained over 20,400 upvotes in a year. The user also posted a template to Imgur[2] (see Template subheading).
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Spread
The format was incredibly successful on Reddit over the following days.
On the day of the original post, Redditor u/HorseGoesMeow posted a newly labeled version of the meme to /r/memes,[4] garnering over 69,200 upvotes in a year (shown below, left). The next day, u/8uzzaw posted another new version to /r/wholesomememes,[5] garnering over 50,300 upvotes in a comparable span of time (shown below, right).
![Yeah...there is a special place in hell for me My friend struggling while playing UNO Me who didn't actually shuffle the deck](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/149/14b.jpg)
![I love my mom](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/150/099.jpg)
On December 16th, 2020, Twitter[3] user @wholesomememe posted the blank template, garnering over 18,000 likes and 1,400 retweets in six months. The format became significantly popular on Tumblr[4] over the course of 2021 while remaining popular on Reddit, resulting in a number of variants over the course of the year (example from Tumblr shown below).
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Template
![Dog Playing Chess Template](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/146/dec.jpg)
Various Examples
![DnD Chess Dog](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/174/7c6.png)
![Kylo Ren Shirtless](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/176/b54.jpg)
![THE LAWS OF TIME ARE MINE!!!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/177/14e.png)
![Kelvin Gang](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/178/a65.jpg)
![my immortal queen](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/180/439.png)
![I don’t like depressing memes](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/127/183/ea7.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – Invest in this awesome doge template!
[3] Twitter – WholesomeMeme
[5] Reddit – i love my mom
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