Dolla Dolla Bill Yall Sloth

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Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all Sloth is a 2011 image macro pairing Ryan Berkley's suited-sloth illustration with the Wu-Tang Clan hook from C.R.E.A.M. The picture kicked off the animals-plus-rap-lyrics wallpaper format that later filled the /r/gangstaanimals subreddit.

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Overview

Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all Sloth is an image macro that pairs a formally dressed sloth clip art with the hook from Wu-Tang Clan's 1994 single C.R.E.A.M.1. The sloth wears a suit and bow tie, drawn in the Victorian-portrait style used by Portland graphic designer Ryan Berkley for his Etsy shop2. Slapping the lyric dolla dolla bill y'all across the bottom turned a polite animal print into one of the earliest entries in the animals-with-rap-lyrics wallpaper format3.

The joke lands because a sloth is the slowest possible mascot for hustling cash. That mismatch, plus the wallpaper-friendly composition, is what pushed the picture past a one-off Reddit post and into a full-blown format spawning suited raccoons, foxes, and owls on desktops across 2012 and 20134.

How It Spread

Two days later, on September 3rd, 2011, a blue-background edit of the image was reblogged on the Tumblr account Ghostlike Swazy6. The picture stayed quiet for more than a year, then resurfaced in November 2012 with at least four separate submissions to /r/wallpapers, /r/funny, /r/sloths, and /r/trees4. That same month, aggregator site We Know Memes featured the sloth twice, moving it outside its Reddit niche7.

On December 17th, 2012, a Facebook page called Dolla Dolla Bill Sloth was launched to collect variants8. A month later, on January 19th, 2013, a Redditor started /r/gangstaanimals for cute animals paired with hip hop lyrics in wallpaper form3. By mid-2013, the subreddit had gathered more than 100 user-made wallpapers and roughly 3,125 subscribers, turning the sloth's punchline into a template anyone could copy3.

How to Use This Meme

The template typically pairs a Berkley-style illustration of an animal in formal clothing with a rap lyric set in plain white sans-serif text along the bottom of the image3. A common convention is a solid background, often flat blue or off-white, so the picture works as a desktop wallpaper at wide resolutions6. Wu-Tang, Notorious B.I.G., and Snoop Dogg lyrics are the usual pairings, though the format is open to any hip hop line short enough to fit on one row.

Frequently Asked Questions

Dolla Dolla Bill Yall Sloth

2011image macroclassic

Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all Sloth is a 2011 image macro pairing Ryan Berkley's suited-sloth illustration with the Wu-Tang Clan hook from C.R.E.A.M. The picture kicked off the animals-plus-rap-lyrics wallpaper format that later filled the /r/gangstaanimals subreddit.

captioned animal memes hip hop memes image macro memes subreddit origin memes early 2010s memes

Overview

Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all Sloth is an image macro that pairs a formally dressed sloth clip art with the hook from Wu-Tang Clan's 1994 single C.R.E.A.M.1. The sloth wears a suit and bow tie, drawn in the Victorian-portrait style used by Portland graphic designer Ryan Berkley for his Etsy shop2. Slapping the lyric dolla dolla bill y'all across the bottom turned a polite animal print into one of the earliest entries in the animals-with-rap-lyrics wallpaper format3.

The joke lands because a sloth is the slowest possible mascot for hustling cash. That mismatch, plus the wallpaper-friendly composition, is what pushed the picture past a one-off Reddit post and into a full-blown format spawning suited raccoons, foxes, and owls on desktops across 2012 and 20134.

How It Spread

Two days later, on September 3rd, 2011, a blue-background edit of the image was reblogged on the Tumblr account Ghostlike Swazy6. The picture stayed quiet for more than a year, then resurfaced in November 2012 with at least four separate submissions to /r/wallpapers, /r/funny, /r/sloths, and /r/trees4. That same month, aggregator site We Know Memes featured the sloth twice, moving it outside its Reddit niche7.

On December 17th, 2012, a Facebook page called Dolla Dolla Bill Sloth was launched to collect variants8. A month later, on January 19th, 2013, a Redditor started /r/gangstaanimals for cute animals paired with hip hop lyrics in wallpaper form3. By mid-2013, the subreddit had gathered more than 100 user-made wallpapers and roughly 3,125 subscribers, turning the sloth's punchline into a template anyone could copy3.

How to Use This Meme

The template typically pairs a Berkley-style illustration of an animal in formal clothing with a rap lyric set in plain white sans-serif text along the bottom of the image3. A common convention is a solid background, often flat blue or off-white, so the picture works as a desktop wallpaper at wide resolutions6. Wu-Tang, Notorious B.I.G., and Snoop Dogg lyrics are the usual pairings, though the format is open to any hip hop line short enough to fit on one row.

Frequently Asked Questions