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Friendly Reminder That He Baby Echidna Wholesome Meme

This is a viral wholesome meme formatted as a Tumblr thread. The first post by user funkykong shows a photo of a tiny, hairless newborn echidna (called a puggle) being held in a human hand, paired with the text 'friendly reminder that he'. A second user, iamtheproxy1, replies asking 'he what'. The original poster then replies with just the word 'he', followed by a second photo of the same baby echidna at a slightly older age, with developing spines, lying relaxed on a towel. The humor comes from the intentionally unfinished setup, deadpan delivery, and the payoff being simply the existence of the extremely cute baby animal with no further context provided.
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friendly reminder that he

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iamtheproxy1: he what
funkykong: he

Overview

This is a viral wholesome meme formatted as a Tumblr thread. The first post by user funkykong shows a photo of a tiny, hairless newborn echidna (called a puggle) being held in a human hand, paired with the text 'friendly reminder that he'. A second user, iamtheproxy1, replies asking 'he what'. The original poster then replies with just the word 'he', followed by a second photo of the same baby echidna at a slightly older age, with developing spines, lying relaxed on a towel. The humor comes from the intentionally unfinished setup, deadpan delivery, and the payoff being simply the existence of the extremely cute baby animal with no further context provided.

Origin notes

This meme originated as a public post on the social media platform Tumblr, created by user 'funkykong'. The original photos of the baby echidna are sourced from Taronga Zoo, as indicated by the watermark on the first animal photo. The post gained widespread popularity on Tumblr before being reposted to other platforms including X (formerly Twitter) via the WholesomeMeme RSS feed as noted in the provided context, amassing over 246,000 notes on Tumblr alone.

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