Evil Plotting Raccoon

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Evil Plotting Raccoon is an advice animal image macro featuring a wild raccoon caught with its paws pressed together like a cartoon villain scheming. The source photo went up on Flickr in 2008, and Reddit turned it into a meme in early 2011 with captions describing petty schemes and mischief.

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Overview

Evil Plotting Raccoon is an advice animal image macro built on a photograph of a wild raccoon holding its front paws together at chest level with its mouth open in what reads as a devious grin1. The pose looks like a textbook cartoon villain mid-scheme, which is why the template pairs the crop with white Impact-font captions describing small acts of chaos4.

Captions typically stick to petty crimes and low-stakes plotting: knocking over trash bins, sneaking into cabins, ruining a picnic3. Russian humor site Fishki.net's roundup catalogued dozens of imagined schemes, from staging a Britney Spears wedding to targeting fellow advice animal Paranoid Parrot (translated from Russian)3.

How It Spread

On February 9th, 2011, Redditor Zeb1 posted the raccoon photo to r/pics and then cross-posted it to r/adviceanimals2. In the comments, user SnailBoy captioned the image with 'knock over trash bin, find nothing of interest', an edit that KYM credits as an early example of the format4.

By 2012 the image was loaded onto meme generator sites imgflip6 and Quickmeme7, letting anyone plug in their own scheme text without editing software4. Fishki.net published a best-of Evil Plotting Raccoon gallery on April 14th, 20133. Aggregator The Awesome Daily ran its own 18-caption roundup on September 4th, 2017, six years after the Reddit debut5.

How to Use This Meme

Pair the raccoon photo with white Impact-font text describing a small, petty scheme. The top line typically sets up the situation and the bottom line delivers the villainous punchline. Common conventions include tiny crimes like knocking over trash, obvious plots against other advice animals, and menacing setups with harmless payoffs3.

Frequently Asked Questions

Evil Plotting Raccoon

2008image macroclassic

Evil Plotting Raccoon is an advice animal image macro featuring a wild raccoon caught with its paws pressed together like a cartoon villain scheming. The source photo went up on Flickr in 2008, and Reddit turned it into a meme in early 2011 with captions describing petty schemes and mischief.

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Overview

Evil Plotting Raccoon is an advice animal image macro built on a photograph of a wild raccoon holding its front paws together at chest level with its mouth open in what reads as a devious grin1. The pose looks like a textbook cartoon villain mid-scheme, which is why the template pairs the crop with white Impact-font captions describing small acts of chaos4.

Captions typically stick to petty crimes and low-stakes plotting: knocking over trash bins, sneaking into cabins, ruining a picnic3. Russian humor site Fishki.net's roundup catalogued dozens of imagined schemes, from staging a Britney Spears wedding to targeting fellow advice animal Paranoid Parrot (translated from Russian)3.

How It Spread

On February 9th, 2011, Redditor Zeb1 posted the raccoon photo to r/pics and then cross-posted it to r/adviceanimals2. In the comments, user SnailBoy captioned the image with 'knock over trash bin, find nothing of interest', an edit that KYM credits as an early example of the format4.

By 2012 the image was loaded onto meme generator sites imgflip6 and Quickmeme7, letting anyone plug in their own scheme text without editing software4. Fishki.net published a best-of Evil Plotting Raccoon gallery on April 14th, 20133. Aggregator The Awesome Daily ran its own 18-caption roundup on September 4th, 2017, six years after the Reddit debut5.

How to Use This Meme

Pair the raccoon photo with white Impact-font text describing a small, petty scheme. The top line typically sets up the situation and the bottom line delivers the villainous punchline. Common conventions include tiny crimes like knocking over trash, obvious plots against other advice animals, and menacing setups with harmless payoffs3.

Frequently Asked Questions