Jealous Husky

About

Jealous Husky, also known as Pissed Off Husky, is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photograph of an annoyed-looking Alaskan Malamute dog seated next to a man and a woman on a snow-covered mountain. The captions typically portray the dog as his owner’s overprotective bro with guarded feelings towards his girlfriend.

Origin

On March 9th, 2014, Redditor Stuface submitted a photograph of a couple posing with their Alaskan Malamute in front of a mountain range to the /r/funny^[1] subreddit (shown below, left). In the comments section of the post, Redditors began posting humorous internal monologues attributed to the angry-looking dog. In the first four days, the post gained over 13,600 up votes and 320 comments. On the same day, Redditor Matter1234 submitted the same photograph with the caption “Wait a minute / They weren’t wrestling” to /r/funny^[2] (shown below, right).

Spread

On March 10th, 2014, Redditor Flim_Flams submitted an image macro titled “Pissed Off Husky,” with a caption depicting the dog as envious of his owner’s female companion (shown below, left). The same day, Redditor yemyek submitted another image macro titled “I thought I’d give it a try with Jealous Husky,” which joked about the couple using peanut butter in a sexual context (shown below, right). Also on March 10th, the Internet humor blog Tastefully Offensive^[6] highlighted Reddit Flim_Flams’ image macro. In the next four days, the posts gained over 25,400 and 14,900 up votes on /r/AdviceAnimals^[3]^[4] respectively. During that same time, there were over 70 new image macros submitted to /r/adviceanimals^[5] containing the word “husky.”