What dat dog doing

What dat dog doin? from WhatDaDogDoin

What dat dog doing

Description

The original video shows a group of friends opening a tin of mints in public, with everyone eager to get a mint, they all reach in to get some. After a dog reaches in to get a mint, a man reacts by saying “What da dog doin?”

History

This meme, like many other memes, originated on vine. The original vine was created by TonyBakerComedy on April 9th, 2014. At the start of 2021, this meme blew up and has been gaining recent traction. “What da dog doin?” Has become a viral sound effect used in many videos, alongside amogus. An example is Kracc Bacc, who uses this sound effect in many of his videos.

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"what da dog doin" is a verbal term that has been used over the centuries. It is a genuine question asked by generations of people targeting the question of what is the hairy medium sized animal doing. It is a sentence we might not know ever what it is doing but smart people like Albert Einstein, Steven Hawkings and many more are still in confusion of what the dog is doing.

"ay lemme get one too" "my man right there" "what da dog doin"

by Jerry McDonald December 12, 2021

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What the Dog Doin' or What da Dog Doin' refers to a viral video uploaded to Vine in which four men reach into a small tin of mints at the same time, followed by a dog, resulting in one man asking, "what the dog doin'?" The video went viral in the years following its release, seeing a significant increase in popularity in 2021.

On April 9th, 2014, Vine comedian and Twitter user @TonyBakerComedy tweeted a link to a now-deleted Vine video titled "WHEN YOU PULL OUT MINTS IN PUBLIC" featuring Viners King Bach, Damaine Radcliff, MrNateJackson, Liane V and Neli Mac. The video was archived by Vine Activity on April 10th. In the video, four people reach into a small tin of Icebreakers mints, followed by a dog hand reaching in as well, resulting in one man asking, "What the dog doin'?"


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On February 1st, 2019, Twitter user @StacksBreadup tweeted the video, writing, "I’ve been looking for this video for YEARS." The post gained over 2.4 million views, 55,000 retweets and 162,00 likes in two years.

In the following days, @StacksBreadup's post received viral spread through reposts on Instagram and iFunny. For example, on February 3rd, 2019, iFunny user biged403 reposted the video, with the post garnering over 109,800 smiles in two years. An August 14th YouTube reupload of the video gained over 800,000 views in two years. A September 20th, 2019, repost by iFunny user N_2_O received over 126,400 smiles in the same period.

Prior to March 19th, 2020, an unknown user posted the earliest known meme based on the video, adding a humorous image macro as a punchline. On March 19th, Instagram user qlewy made the earliest found repost of the video, with the post gaining over 37,500 views and 8,300 likes in one year (shown below).


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On April 29th, 2020, YouTuber aitch reuploaded a video overexplaining the video comically (authorship unconfirmed; shown below).


In the following months, the video received viral spread through reposts. On October 3rd, it was shared by Instagram page @loudequalsfunny, garnering over 126,000 views and 28,000 likes. On November 4th, YouTuber twomad used the sentence in a vlog, garnering over 1.7 million views in seven months (shown below).


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As the video gained viral success, people began using the phrase "what the dog doin'" alongside content showing dogs doing strange things (example shown below).


Memes referencing the video, as well as the use of the phrase in post text, continued to rise in popularity over the course of 2021. On March 4th, Twomad posted an image of himself to Instagram sitting on a couch captioned, "Still contemplating what the dog doin 💭" garnering over 107,000 likes in three months.

On April 23rd, 2021, TikToker @okcron posted a skit referencing the video, garnering over 1.2 million views in two months (shown below).


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On May 8th, Instagram user andrew_lastname posted a video splicing the audio with a clip from SpongeBob SquarePants, garnering over 321,000 views in a month (shown below, left). On May 21st, Instagram page @repostrandy posted a video referencing the video, garnering over 231,000 views and 55,000 likes in three weeks (shown below, right).


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