About

Noir Dog is an advice animal image macro series featuring a black-and-white photograph of a dog staring out a window with captions depicting the canine as a brooding detective character typically associated with film noir.

Origin

On October 19th, 2014, Redditor Frohoss posted a photograph of his Cane Corso dog looking through a window to the /r/pics^[1] subreddit (shown below, left). In the comment section, Redditor AUX1_Dub noted that the dog appears to resemble a sullen detective character from a work of the gritty crime thriller / drama subgenre. That day, Redditor chilirelleno submitted a captioned version of the image titled "Noir Dog" to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[2] subreddit, depicting the dog as a film noir detective complaining about a cat (shown below, right). In 24 hours, the posts gained over 4,100 votes (94% upvoted) and 3,900 votes (95% upvoted) respectively.

Spread

On October 19th, Redditor House90 posted an image macro titled "Film Noir Dog" to /r/AdviceAnimals^[3] (shown below, left). The same day, Redditor toodamnparanoid posted a Noir Dog image captioned with the internal monologue of a canine private detective to /r/AdviceAnimals^[4] (shown below, right). In 24 hours, the posts gathered more than 3,700 votes (93% upvoted) and 1,300 votes (77% upvoted) respectively. Also on October 19th, Redditor chilirelleno's original Noir Dog imago macro was reposted to 9gag.^[5]

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