About
Small Dads is a photoshop meme in which a family photo is edited to have the father shrunk to half his original size.
Origin
Redditor afdlips submitted a post[1] on February 7th, 2013, declaring that his newest hobby involved shrinking the fathers in various family photos and provided an Imgur album featuring several examples (shown below). Within 12 days, the post received over 26,500 up votes and 880 comments.
Spread
On the same day, Redditor afdlips submitted a new post[3] with small dad images that had been requested by other Redditors, receiving over 9,400 up votes and 230 comments within 12 days. Also on February 7th, the /r/smalldads subreddit[4] was created and the viral content site BuzzFeed[6] highlighted several example images calling it “the hottest new Internet trend.” On February 8th, the Internet humor blog Sad and Useless[5] highlighted several notable photoshops and Gawker[2] chronicled the series of Reddit posts in which the meme originated. Also on February 8th, examples from the series were reblogged by both Laughing Squid[7] and The Huffington Post.[8]
Notable Examples
Search Interest
Not available.
External References
[1]Reddit – My newest hobby
[2]Gawker – Small dads meme
[3]Reddit – OP Delivers more small dads
[4]Reddit – /r/smalldads
[5]Sad and Useless – Small Dads
[6]BuzzFeed – Small Dads
[7]Laughing Squid – Small Dads
[8]Huffington Post – Small Dads Meme