The image now looked like this, with credit being give to some random person called “chance” (whose tweet now has 550K likes and 170K shares):Įvery day since then, my friends have been tagging me in the image, and sending messages telling me they saw it somewhere new. Repeated screenshotting had made the text hard to read, so someone added a bigger version of the text. Over the next few weeks the image spread out across the internet, shared by many pages I myself am a fan of.īy the time it was posted by BBC3 and 9Gag (where it’s got 67K likes, 10K comments and 10K shares already), the image had evolved again. Which would be great… except some terrible person had edited it to remove my watermark! Shithead Steve didn’t reply to any of my messages asking him to credit me. Over the course of that day, the image got more and more likes (170K last time I checked). The next morning, I woke up to a message from an old school friend, saying he’d seen my image on Instagram, with 100,000 likes. I finished the image and added my watermark to the bottom right hand corner, then posted the image on my Facebook page and shared it in a dinosaur meme group I’m in, where it got a few hundred likes. I also made an even more bizarre version, mainly just trying to be a surreal as possible:Ī few weeks later, in early December, I saw my image on my laptop, and finally thought of a good caption.

I sent the image to a couple of friends, then went to bed and forgot about the whole thing.

I thought it would be funny to add some hair to it in Photoshop. I was awake late at night, learning about dinosaurs on Wikipedia (because I’m cool like that), and I saw a quite funny picture of a dinosaur called Lufengosaurus, looking all shifty. Well, I made the original image! Here is the story of that image, how it evolved, and how my most successful creation hardly got me any followers. It’s been shared on the internet well over a million times now, and it seems to be everywhere. So you’ve probably seen this image now in some form or another. UPDATE: They Greg James just talked about my meme on BBC radio 1!

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