Kids Scared of Rabbit — Blonde girl and crying toddler boy pressed into a corner, terrified of a small black rabbit on the floor.

Kids Scared of Rabbit

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Published October 21, 2026

Kids Scared of Rabbit, also known as Children Scared of Rabbit, is an object-labeling image macro of a terrified toddler boy and his sister recoiling from a small black bunny during a 2015 family bunny photo session2. The portrait studio Camera Shy posted it to Facebook on March 14, 2015, and Reddit's /r/photoshopbattles picked it up two days later1. By January 2017, Tumblr users were adding object-labels to spoof Albert Camus's absurdism5.

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Overview

Users apply labels to the two children and the rabbit, with the small black animal standing in for whatever the labeled group irrationally fears. The boy, who looks more visibly afraid than the girl, often gets the more extreme label, as in one video game edit from October 2020 that tagged him 'serial killers' next to his sister's 'psychopaths'6.

A later remix added a photoshopped tiger into the grass behind the children, flipping the joke so that the real danger stays ignored while the kids panic over the bunny7. Captions in the format tend to lean on misplaced fear, with the overblown reaction aimed at something harmless while an actual threat sits elsewhere in the frame or is implied by the setup4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Facebook (source photo) / Reddit (viral spread)
Date
2015

Camera Shy, a Utah family portrait studio, took the photo during a bunny-themed session in early 2015 and posted it to their Facebook page on March 14 with the caption 'And sometimes bunny sessions go like this…'2. Two days later, Imgur user RockiesInOctober reposted the picture on March 16, 2015 captioned 'My kids during our family pictures this past weekend'3. That same day, they crossposted it to Reddit's /r/photoshopbattles, where it drew more than 3,000 upvotes along with a run of edited versions over the following years1.

How It Spread

The top-voted entry in the original /r/photoshopbattles thread swapped the bunny for the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which stuck as the dominant reference point whenever the picture resurfaced4. The earliest known object-labeling edit came in January 2017, when Tumblr user footnotestoplato captioned the kids and the rabbit as an Albert Camus philosophy joke, drawing roughly 250 notes over the next four years5.

Four years after the photo, the format broke out on Reddit. On August 15, 2020, u/thegododoctor posted a tiger-in-the-grass variant to /r/BigBrother to joke about the 2020 season of the reality show, with the hidden tiger standing in as the actual threat the kids should worry about7. Two months later, on October 13, 2020, u/mijuzz7 posted a video-games edit to /r/dankmemes that pulled more than 85,000 upvotes within ten months and helped lock in the 'psychopaths' / 'serial killers' label pairing seen in later versions6.

Timeline

2015-03-14

Utah portrait studio Camera Shy posts the bunny-session photo to Facebook with the caption 'And sometimes bunny sessions go like this…'[2].

2015-03-16

Imgur user RockiesInOctober reposts the picture, then crossposts it to /r/photoshopbattles, where it draws over 3,000 upvotes and a Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog edit[1].

2017-01

Tumblr user footnotestoplato posts the earliest known object-labeling edit, captioning the children and the rabbit as an Albert Camus philosophy joke[5].

2020-08-15

Redditor u/thegododoctor posts a photoshopped tiger variant to /r/BigBrother referencing that year's season of the show[7].

2020-10-13

Redditor u/mijuzz7 posts a video games edit to /r/dankmemes that draws more than 85,000 upvotes within ten months[6].

How to Use This Meme

Posts typically label the boy and the girl as two slightly different groups scared of the same thing, and the rabbit as the object of that misplaced fear. Common captions give the boy, the more visibly scared of the two, the darker or more extreme label. Some edits also place a second, hidden threat in the background, like the photoshopped tiger variant, to show that the kids are afraid of the wrong thing7.

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