The series inspired a similar character named Just Lazy Sloth (shown below, bottom row), featuring a similar sloth photo on a red and green background with captions about general malaise, however its corresponding Tumblr blog ceased updating in April 2011.ĭolla Dolla Bill Y’all Sloth is an image macro featuring a clip art illustration of a sloth by Portland-based illustrator Ryan Berkley captioned with the memorable line from Wu Tang Clan’s 1994 hip hop single “C.R.E.A.M.” Berkley's artwork eventually inspired an image macro series that combines various illustrations of animals with violent or sexually explicit rap lyrics. As of March 2013, there are more than a thousand submissions on the Socially Lazy Sloth Memegenerator page. On September 1st, 2010, a Facebook fan page was also established for the advice animal series, gaining almost 500 likes in two and a half years. On August 21st, 2010, the single topic blog Fuck Yeah Socially Lazy Sloth (shown below, top row) launched, curating dozens of image macros featuring a sloth’s head superimposed on to a blue and green background with captions that generally depict acts of apathy and passivity in social situations. Dozens of single topic Tumblr blogs have been created for sloth fans since June 2010, including Sloth Love, The Sloth Sabbath, Slothville, Your Daily Baby Sloth, Sloth It Like It’s Hot, That Sloth Blog and SlothPls. As of March 2013, there are more than 330,000 search results for "sloth" on YouTube. Additionally, there are dozens of Sloth fan pages on Facebook, with the largest two having nearly 100,000 likes between them. Kelly's 1996 hit "I Believe I Can Fly" (shown below, right), giving it the additional title "Sloth's Perspective." Six days later, her video was reuploaded by YouTuber timah99, whose version has been watched more than 7 million times as of March 2013.įans of the mammals can be found on Twitter, where they have been tweeted about more than 34,000 times. More than a year later, on May 14th, 2011, YouTuber Chema Leon remixed this video, adding a clip from R. As it reaches the pavement, a man on a motorcycle pulls over and picks up the sloth, quickly running it across the street as the sloth outstretched his arms. In April 2010, YouTuber Mermaid5651 uploaded a video (shown below, left) of a sloth trying to cross a road in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica very slowly. In May 2006, a Last.fm group titled Sloth Appreciation Society was established with playlists based on the listening habits of people who are fans of sloths. In October of that year, the blog Sloth Love was launched with a collection of photos and facts about the mammals, but went on hiatus in less than a month. In January 2005, a Tripod site claiming to be the “Unofficial Sloth Fanclub” was created, though it did not specify whether or not the fan club celebrated the mammal or a fictional character named Sloth. One of the first sites dedicated to sloths (shown below) was created as early as October 2002, as a parody of the fictitious Ninja fansite Real Ultimate Power.
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