Dink My Oiter

About

Dink My Oiter is a series of exploitable image macros depicting a ferret with its head submerged in a water bowl, drinking, captioned, "dink my oiter," "dink" and "oiter" being a purposeful misspelling of "drink" and "water." The meme was originally posted to Tumblr in March 2022 and inspired redraws and further image macros using misspelled captions over similar images of animals, often cats, drinking or eating.

Origin

On March 11th, 2022, Tumblr^[1] user sporkkles-irl posted an image macro of a ferret drinking from a water bowl, its head submerged in the water, captioned, "dink my oiter," garnering over 113,000 notes in two years (shown below). This is the earliest known version of the meme. The post is likely inspired by similar image macros that use purposefully misspelled and mispronounced captions over images of cats, such as a post by X^[2] user @AnimalsCaption made a month prior that reads, "fail me homeork."

Spread

The meme became the subject of redraws and referential memes over the following months. On March 13th and 14th, 2022, several GIFs were uploaded to Tenor^[3][4][5] referencing it. On March 24th, YouTuber^[6] FitzyVA posted a voice over of a meme using the caption, garnering over 4,000 views in two years (shown below).

On June 26th, X^[7] user @AnimalsCaption posted a new version of the meme that gained over 32,000 likes in two years (shown below, left). On July 24th, Tumblr^[8] user emilnikos posted an edit of the original meme where the ferretbdrinks blood, garnering over 2,000 notes in two years (shown below, right).

On April 26th, 2023, X^[9] user @stubbypubby posted a Pokemon meme using the caption, garnering over 9,000 likes in a year (shown below). On October 7th, Instagram^[10] user hiiikitty posted a slideshow with several versions of the meme that garnered over 200,000 likes in six months.

On April 7th, 2024, X^[11] user @Catsillyness posted a version of the meme featuring the caption "dink my ofee," garnering over 23,000 likes in three days (shown below).

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