About

Sneaky Fox is an five-panel exploitable webcomic in which a cartoon fox sneaks into a house and performs various minor pranks for humorous effect. Online, people have changed the final activity ("Emailed Your Mum") with various mock activities.

Origin

On September 26th, 2018, the webcomic Extra Ordinary Comics premiered a comic in which a "sneaky fox" breaks into a house, sits on a couch, eats pasta and emails the homeowner's mother. Within two days of posting to Facebook, ^[1] the comics received more than 2,500 reactions, 144 comments and 800 shares (shown below).

Spread

That day, the comic was posted to Reddit ^[2] by Redditor exocomics. The post received more than 12,000 points (91% upvoted) and 100 comments in two days.

Additionally, Redditor^[3] LateNightThoughtz posted a variation of the meme in which the last panel shows the fox's head super imposed over Adolf Hitler's with caption "Attempted Genocide." The post received more than 1,800 points (96% upvoted) and 415 comments in two days.

Over the next several days, variations of the comic continued to appear on Reddit (examples below, center and right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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