About[]
Baby Insanity Wolf is an advice animal image macro series based on a photograph of a wolf cub howling and various captions describing small acts of defiance often perceptible only to the person carrying them out, in a similar vein to those highlighted in "Thug Life" remixes.
Origin[]
As the name suggests, the series can be seen as the diminutive cousin of Insanity Wolf. On June 20th, 2012, the baby wolf photo was posted to Baby Animal Zoo by a user named Zookeeper Joe[3]. That same day, the photo was featured in a blog post titled "Awooo! You’ll Howl For These Wolf Pups" by Zookeeper Joe.[4] Previous to that, on June 20th, 2011, a cropped version of the same photograph was uploaded as part of a post titled "End Lethal Wolf Management" on the site BTC4Animals.com.[5]
Spread[]
The earliest iteration of the meme was posted to Reddit on December 8th, 2013 by /u/smith1225 in a post titled "How I feel about a lot of the new Insanity Wolf postings lately", poking fun at the perceived milquetoast nature of recent Insanity Wolf submissions (pictured below, left).[1] The post received 2,934 points (96% upvoted) and 512 comments before being archived.
Another post on Reddit, made on December 9th, titled "Baby Insanity Wolf doesn't live by your rules", was submitted by /u/SpaceToeJam, and received 2080 upvotes and 339 comments (pictured below, right)[2].