The Opps Forced Him / The Opps Forcing Cats and Dogs

About

The Opps Forced Him, also known as The Opps Forcing Cats and Dogs, refers to a phrasal template used to caption videos of cats, dogs and other cute animals in memes that humorously infers that they are being forced by their opps to do heinous acts that are often not heinous, but rather simple and silly, like getting a haircut or getting clean. The use of AAVE slang like "opps" or "slime" were juxtaposed by the wholesome animals, relating to the image macro genre Soft Irony.

Origin

On August 10th, 2022, the Instagram^[11] page slayworldalbania posted a meme featuring a white dog with a mohawk and text overlay reading, "opps fucked up his mohawk 🙁🙁," earning over 420 likes in four months (shown below).

A month later, on October 12th, 2022, the Instagram^[8] page bug2sick posted a carousel post including two memes that added onto the "Opps Forcing Cats and Dogs" trend. One meme included in the post showed a bunny with the top caption reading, "He was forced to eat a balanced diet 🙁💔💔💔" (shown below, left). The other meme showed a stuffed animal made by JuliaLeonovich^[9] with the top caption reading, "opps forced him to listen to don corleo" (shown below, right). Over the course of two months, the post received over 390 likes.

Spread

On November 4th, 2022, both Instagram^[10] pages bug2sick and slayworldalbania uploaded a collab post with a meme featuring a white toy poodle and a top caption reading, "Opps turned him into a symmetrical sphere 😢💔 أحتاج إلى عاهرة سيئة," gaining roughly 1,000 likes in a month and a half (shown below).

The snowclone surfaced in the comment sections of animal-related TikTok content, such as Scoobert and Churchill edits, months later. On December 14th, 2022, TikToker^[1] pk_dietrich posted a comment beneath a Scoobert edit made by TikToker^[2] seamgomi on December 13th that read, "opps done gave my slime a bubble bath 💯😓," earning over 390 likes in 13 days (shown below, top). Also on December 14th, TikToker^[3] emmettbruhman posted a comment beneath a different Scoobert edit created by TikToker^[4] dogfart97 on December 13th, reading, "Ops used too much conditioner 😭💔." The comment earned over 20 likes in 13 days (shown below, bottom).

Thereafter, many comments used the snowclone beneath animal-related content on the app. Then, on December 22nd, 2022, TikToker^[5] aundyy posted a video that riffed on the comment trend, writing in a top caption, "The opps forced him to get squeaky clean 😭😭😭," above a video showing kittens getting bathed. Over the course of five days, the video received roughly 1.5 million plays and 296,800 likes (shown below).

After the video, multiple creators used the snowclone in top captions of cute animal videos. For instance, on December 23rd, 2022, TikToker^[6] bug2sick (the same meme creator as Instagram's^[8] bug2sick) posted a video with text reading, "Opps caught his ahh lacking," gaining roughly 359,800 plays and 70,600 likes in four days (shown below, left). On December 26th, 2022, TikToker^[7] 30inmykhakis posted a similar video with text reading, "Opps gave him a fresh cut 😭💈✂️," gaining roughly 79,800 plays and 15,300 likes in one day (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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