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Sometimes you run into something that you don’t really appreciate at first, but have to get accustomed to. There is this trend of so-called image macros, which basically are images with some text on them. Now when the same image keeps being used, with differing text, a new internet fad or meme is born. Advice Dog is such a meme.

It’s the image of a dog on a colorful background giving you (often bad) advice. It’s only when you start to realize how these images and the whole meme was created you might view it as art. But more like the kind of art that won’t be recognized for it until 500 years from now someone digs up a computer server from the nuclear wastelands and thinks this is the way we express ourselves in the beginning of the third millennium.

Just have a look and try to see what I mean. These came in existence in the same way the marble season started on your school in the past. There is never any coordination or manual but it appears anyway. I have to give a small warning though, many of these are rude, insulting or otherwise politically incorrect. Make your own with the meme generator!

Advice Dog has many spin-offs: Courage Wolf, Foul Bachelor Frog, Socially Awkward Penguin, Technologically Impaired Duck and my favorite, Philosoraptor.

If you still don’t believe it’s art then look at the following video. It’s of an unrelated meme, but shows very nice how that originated, from a computer glitch to many people creating their own version and hundreds of thousands of people watching the creations.