When Snoop Dogg Tried To Be An Advice Animal
why it didn't work
It’s November of 2014: you open up Instagram on your iPhone 5, which is about the size and thickness of a pack of playing cards, and you see this:
Snoop Dogg, who burst into fame with his 1993 album Doggystyle and since then has become America’s wacky stoner uncle, stares back at you through his own phone, held in his hand at nearly the same angle you’re holding yours. This is one of a series of multiple “Meme” selfies he posted, several of them with this same durag wrapped around his head.
It’s never possible to exactly know an artist’s intent, but I think the meme visual style he’s in conversation with is Advice Animals. You can imagine this picture of Snoop Dogg with top text and bottom text on it, in Impact font (or at least I can):
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