This Bunny Has Urgent Messages For You, And Tired Arms

If you’ve spent any time on Twitter over the past couple of days, I’m sorry. But if you have been sucked into Twitter’s steely death grip, you may have recently seen ASCII art of a cute bunny holding up signs with messages sharing self care and positive affirmations, expressing love and support for the arts, getting political, or laying down strong opinions about food. The first appearance of the bunny on Twitter that we could find was in Portuguese back in August of 2013, but the meme recently gained in popularity after people started using the bunny to deliver historical lessons under the hashtag HistorianSignBunny.

On Wednesday, Historian Sign Bunny exploded in popularity for jokes like this:

We’ve collected some of our favorite Sign Bunny memes. For example, people took advantage of the opportunity to request things with assistance from cute bunny:

https://twitter.com/matigenero/status/1015059421221793792

https://twitter.com/pereradaniel/status/1015085542814470149

Other people were willing to throw down about food preferences:

https://twitter.com/sammy_smiless/status/1017952994309099521
https://twitter.com/EscoBlades/status/1019417939697651712

Twitter users also said their piece about pop culture:

https://twitter.com/Trungles/status/1019329799070912512

Folks also had strong feelings about dinosaurs:

https://twitter.com/DustinGrowick/status/1017582486417760256

Some people really hewed to the “protest sign” theme and went political with their messaging:

https://twitter.com/DRHsPsychoCafe/status/1017559368760344576

https://twitter.com/princessbilbo/status/1019333367668461568

https://twitter.com/lwbean/status/1018893200608522241

Others made meta commentary on the meme itself:

https://twitter.com/Kevin42003/status/1019659218763231232

But some were using this time to prepare for bigger things:

https://twitter.com/serinide/status/1019554867285807105