Love This Animal
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Various Tumblr users reblogged 00ff80’s post adding their own variations of the format over the following months, including images of carps labeled “carb” and a squid labeled “squit” (examples shown below). The phrase “love this animal” occasionally devolves into “love this animals” in future variations of the format.
Reposts and new versions of the meme continued to appear on Tumblr over the course of the year, as well as spread outside of Tumblr. On September 29th, 2021, Instagram user epicjoko posted a version of the meme with a moth, gaining over 151,000 likes in seven months (shown below).