Hamster Meme Origin

The scared hamster is a reaction meme featuring a hamster standing against a corner with a gaping mouth and tiny hands in a defensive position a look which to humans mean startled or scared.

Hamster meme origin. On june 9th 2016 twitter user m0vingdae tweeted a video of a hamster screaming as the filmer attempts to fill its food bowl. It can also be seen as a meme in itself with a caption that would generally. Spawned hit songs worldwide lols and a giant hairball of. Or of persian origin cf.

The hampster dance is one of the earliest internet memes. Lessons in meme culture recommended for you. The image is frequently used to react to stories or other images that are horrifying or downright disgusting. At one time hamsters ran amok in that country.

Lessons in meme culture duration. The most common rodent pet the golden hamster is native to syria. Origin the earliest known use of the hamster reaction was used on january 13th 2019 by tiktok user beanboy22. Staring hamster is a reaction image macro of a hamster looking directly at the camera.

Eventually farmers grew tired of the critters digging up their root vegetables. The ahhhh meme compilation 2017 duration. The twisted true story of one of the world s first memes what started 20 years ago in nanaimo b c. What is the creepy hamster looking at.

Created in 1998 by canadian art student deidre lacarte as a geocities page the dance features rows of animated gifs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped up sample from the song whistle stop written and performed by roger miller for the 1973 walt disney productions film robin hood. In 1998 when the web was enjoying more mainstream use the hampster dance meme depicting rows of dancing hamster gifs on the website of canadian art student deidre lacarte became popular. It is possibly related to old church slavonic khomestoru which is either a blend of the root of russian хомяк khomyak hamster and a baltic word cf. They captioned the video this is a video of a hamster screaming at me because i m trying to change his food the post received more than 2 000 retweets 5 500 likes and 173 000 views shown below.