Sad Big Poppa

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Sad Big Poppa is an image macro of a bulldog sitting on a balcony looking sad that circulated Twitter in April 2020 during the coronavirus outbreak. The image was shared by his owner who said that he was sad because he misses playing with his neighbors.

Origin

On April 21st, 2020, Twitter user @RaeElle^[1] tweeted a photo of her dog Big Poppa with the caption, "Big Poppa has been so sad today, I think he miss playing with the kids in the building. He just watches them from the patio" (shown below). The tweet gained over 751,800 likes and 83,600 retweets in two days.

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On April 22nd, 2020, Twitter user @dog_rates^[2] tweeted, "hang in there big poppa ❤️" which received over 12,300 likes in a day. That same day, Imgur^[3] user Itsasamsquatchricky uploaded a gallery of Big Poppa memes (example shown below, right). The image of Big Poppa was also reposted to r/aww^[4] that day.

On April 22nd, Twitter user @SaysSarcastic posted a GIF of SpongeBob SquarePants with the caption, "Sitting here with my morning coffee, wondering how we can get big poppa a friend to play with" (shown below). The tweet garnered over 1,700 likes in a day. BuzzFeed News^[6] published an interview with the dogs owner who said, "The sad thing is we have to social-distance even him. When he's inside, he just walks out to the patio looking for people. He's sleeping more. He's a little sluggish. I can tell he's not as happy and excited as he usually is. He's probably tired of just me playing with him." Paper Mag^[5] also published an article about Big Poppa.