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Who's Awesome? You're Awesome!

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Published October 7, 2026

In September 2004, two Argentinian college students launched SosGroso.com.ar, a joke site featuring Don Johnson smugly pointing at the camera above the caption 'Sos groso, sabelo!' The format jumped language barriers four years later and became the English-language 'Who's Awesome? You're Awesome!' pointing dog image macro, a compliment template that defined random-acts-of-kindness posting on 4chan, Tumblr, and single-serving sites.

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Overview

'Who's Awesome? You're Awesome! / Sos Groso, Sabelo!' works as a two-step compliment: an image shows the subject pointing directly at the viewer with a smirk or wink, and the caption flips that pointing finger into a declaration that the viewer is awesome. 'Sos groso, sabelo!' is Argentinian slang that reads literally as 'You're awesome, know it!' (translated from Spanish)4.

The format has two canonical images. The Spanish version used a photo of American TV actor Don Johnson smugly pointing at the camera, which anchored the SosGroso.com.ar homepage1. The English version swapped in a smiling dog pointing with its paw, a cutout that spread through English-language humor sites like FunnyJunk3. People send either variant as a random pick-me-up, often ironically.

Origin & Background

Platform
SosGroso.com.ar (Argentina) / 4chan (English spread)
Key People
Diego and Federico Marino; English pointing dog version unknown
Date
2004

SosGroso.com.ar launched in September 2004 and was built by Argentinian college students Diego and Federico Marino4. The homepage featured American TV actor Don Johnson pointing at the camera with the caption 'Sos groso, sabelo!'1. The site pulled in unexpectedly heavy traffic, which turned it into a submission platform where visitors sent in their own 'sos groso' pictures for the homepage, before the project went dormant in October 2004 after barely a month online4.

The English equivalent 'Who's awesome? You're awesome!' developed as a separate image macro series on 4chan4. The earliest known pointing dog macro circulated in 2008 on English-language humor sites including SFWChan2 and FunnyJunk3. The Argentinian site is widely credited as the inspiration for the English version, though the direct link stays circumstantial.

How It Spread

After SosGroso.com.ar went inactive, Spanish-language 'sos groso' images kept circulating through Argentinian photo-sharing communities, especially Fotolog, which was dominant in the mid-2000s4. On November 24, 2010, a Taringa! user posted a 'megapost' compilation of Sos Groso Sabelo images as a second installment, which shows the format still had legs years after the original site shuttered5.

The English pointing dog version jumped through dedicated single-serving sites. In May 2009, whosawesome.com launched as a page built around the pointing dog image6. Two months later, in July 2009, who-is-awesome.com went live with a nearly identical setup7. On November 25, 2009, the now-defunct culture blog Urlesque included the pointing dog in a roundup of 'awesomest' image macros online8. The format then found a steady home on Tumblr as a compliment reaction image.

Search interest tells the story in two chapters. Spanish queries for 'sos groso' peaked through late 2004 and bumped again in February 2005 after a site update promise that was never kept, while English 'whos awesome' searches first spiked in November 2008 and climbed again in June 2009 as the single-serving sites appeared4.

Timeline

2004-09

Diego and Federico Marino launch SosGroso.com.ar, featuring Don Johnson pointing at the camera with the caption 'Sos groso, sabelo!'

2004-10

SosGroso.com.ar goes dormant after only about a month, though users keep sharing 'sos groso' pictures through Fotolog.

2008

The earliest known 'Who's awesome? You're awesome!' pointing dog image macro circulates on English humor sites like SFWChan and FunnyJunk.

2009-05

Single-serving site whosawesome.com launches, built entirely around the pointing dog image.

2009-07

A near-copy site, who-is-awesome.com, launches with the same pointing dog format.

2009-11-25

Urlesque publishes a roundup of 'awesomest' image macros online that includes the pointing dog.

2010-11-24

A Taringa! user posts a 'Sos Groso Sabelo' megapost compilation, part two, keeping the Argentinian version alive.

How to Use This Meme

To make one, grab any photo of a subject pointing or finger-gunning at the camera, cut it out onto a plain background, and add text that asks a question (typically 'Who's awesome?' or 'Sos groso?') answered by naming or pointing at the viewer. The common convention keeps the caption short and the subject's smirk or wink prominent. It often works best as an unprompted send to a friend who needs the compliment.

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