Jonny Sun's Toy Dinosaur

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Jonny Sun's Toy Dinosaur refers to jokes made about a yellow dinosaur toy tweeted by notable internet personality Jonny Sun after he tweeted it out inviting users to roast it.

Origin

On December 12th, author and illustrator @jonnysun^[1] tweeted a toy dinosaur to his followers, writing, "please roast this extremely strangely proportioned leggy boi i won at the bowling alley, i love him." The tweet generated 4,600 retweets, 35,700 likes, and 1,600 replies (shown below).

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Twitter users obliged, offering jokes about the toy. Twitter user @pixieparkerpage made a shredded cheese from the bag joke that gained over 1,700 retweets and 9,300 likes (shown below, left). Twitter user @izabellugh tweeted "this is how substitute teachers come up to u asking if 'ur teacher lets u do that'" (shown below, right). The jokes were covered by Daily Dot^[2] and Twitter Moments.^[3]

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