If you use Snapchat, or if you have spent basically any time on the internet over the last week or two, you have seen the dancing hot dog filter. It is the rare thing that is exactly what it sounds like — it is a hot dog that dances while wearing headphones and has a happy face with ketchup, mustard, and relish on it. In a world that is frequently getting more and more complex, a silly hot dog that dances is one of the few simple, innocent things remaining as we here on earth complete another rotation around the sun.
Hassan Whiteside has a Snapchat account — he’s one of the NBA’s best Snapchat follows — and like many people, he is enamored with the dancing hot dog filter. We know this because the hot dog was featured prominently in his Snap Story recently, because he just couldn’t handle an animated dancing hot dog.
Listen to the joy in Whiteside’s laugh as he watches the hot dog dance. The great thing is he’s just so happy throughout the duration of the story — whether the hot dog is in his car, the Heat’s locker room, the cold tub, or anywhere else, Whiteside just laughs at this in the purest way imaginable. Also, at one point the two are in Whiteside’s car and Whiteside tries to usher the hot dog out of the vehicle by opening the door and instructing it to leave. If that is not the best moment of the NBA’s offseason, I don’t know what is.
