Sleep Tight Pupper

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About

Sleep Tight Pupper is an "If You See This While Scrolling" image macro featuring a photograph of a Chihuahua dog wearing a hooded sweater while tucked into a bed, promising good night sleeps to whoever replies with the text "sleep tight pupper."

Origin

The earliest known used of the image macro can be traced back to May 30th, 2015, when it was submitted in a thread on the /b/ (random) board on 4chan.^[7] Although this one instance wasn't met with much popularity, another image was posted on a /b/ thread with multiple replies successfully derailing the thread, an album^[2] containing all the replies was then posted on imgur by user Isplooshedmyself.

Percursor

A similar instance of the image can be found on "Pizza of sleepiness", a "If You See This While Scrolling" picture despicting a pizza on a bed and promising good night sleeps to whoever replies with the text "sleep tight pizza." The picture first appeared on 4chan's funposting board [s4s], on a thread featuring the original picture submitted on September 16th, 2014.^[11] A reply to that thread featured the image that would be used onwards.

Spread

On June 5th, 2015, the image macro was posted on a Team Fortress 2 general thread on the /vg/^[1] (video game generals) board. On June 11th, Imgur^[10] user Isplooshedmyself uploaded a gallery of "sleep tight pupper" posts from 4chan (shown below).

On June 21st, Body Building Forums^[9] user sickdevildog1 posted the image macro to a thread on the /misc/ board. On June 23rd, Redditor OvenBakedRhombus submitted the image to the /r/4ChanMeta^[8] subreddit. On July 3rd, 2015, YouTuber Bonin Maxime uploaded a video titled "sleep tight pupper," featuring a captioned fight in the video game Street Fighter IV. As of August 2015, the keywords "sleep tight pupper" yield upwards of 4,600 results on the 4chan archive site Archive.moe. The image has since appeared on other forums and Internet humor sites, including 9Gag^[3], BodyBuilding^[4], FunnyJunk^[5] and r/4chanmeta.^[6]