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Dog Petting Photoshops refer to images popular on /r/me_irl and elsewhere in which pictures are photoshopped such that an image of a hand petting a dog's head is superimposed on an image of a person, making it appear that that person is petting the dog.

Origin

The photoshops began appearing on Reddit's /r/me_irl subreddit on November 15th, 2017. Using a stock photo of a hand petting a dog,^[1] Redditor Blase_E_S uploaded a picture of a high jumping man with his hand petting a dog, gaining over 4,300 upvotes (shown below).^[5]

Spread

Over the following several days, dog-petting edits appeared en masse on me_irl. For example, a post applying the dog with Armed Adam gained over 1,500 upvotes (shown below, left).^[2] Another edit which used the dog within the picture of a dog posted the 17th gained over 4,400 upvotes (shown below, right).^[3]

The edits also began seeing spread outside the subreddit. The me_irl Twitter account tweeted the pole-vaulting edit on the 16th, gaining over 6,800 retweets and 16,000 likes (shown below, left).^[4] An edit combining several memes appeared on /r/dankmemes on November 21st, gaining over 5,000 upvotes (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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