About

WikiHow Dog Training is an exploitable comic series based on an illustration demonstrating how to teach a dog to bark on command featured on the educational database WikiHow.

Origin

In July 2007, an article titled "Teach Your Dog to Speak" was submitted to WikiHow,^[1] which includes an illustration of a woman giving a dog a treat after barking when told to "speak" (shown below).

Spread

On July 9th, 2017, The Meme Aesthetic Facebook^[2] page posted an edited version of the illustration in which the dog barks "There are only two genders" (shown below).

On July 10th, 2017, Redditor hoopstront submitted a version of the illustration edited with various internet memes, including How to Talk to Short People and the B Button Emoji to /r/dankmemes^[4] (shown below, left). the Meanwhile, Redditor Guswea submitted an edited comic of the dog saying "9gag is shit" to /r/MemeEconomy, where it received upwards of 9,400 points (87% upvoted) and 70 comments in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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External References