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🐰 Oolong
Domestic rabbit · Hokkaido, Japan - the home of photographer Hironori Akutagawa
Lives in Legends Garden
Oolong was a house rabbit in Hokkaido whose owner started balancing objects on his head on 25 May 1999 and called it 'head performance'. A photo of him holding a dorayaki pancake dead level on his skull, taken 12 February 2000, escaped onto English-language forums after a DVD Talk thread on 8 August 2001, captioned 'I have no idea what you're talking about... so here's a bunny with a pancake on its head'. That line became one of the internet's first true image macros, used to derail an argument with nonsense. He died in January 2003, long before most of the people reposting him ever learned his name.
What they do
Sits dead still, ears straight up, while a pancake balanced flat on the crown of his head wobbles, settles, and stays put. Slow blink on the last frame..
Patient to the point of absurdity - he would hold the pose for a snack and never once shook the thing off.
Lore
- ★The first object balanced on his head was a 35mm film canister, on 25 May 1999.
- ★His owner photographed hundreds of 'head performances' - teacups, bread, fruit, sweets.
- ★The famous 'pancake' is a dorayaki, a Japanese red-bean pancake.
- ★Akutagawa left an English note on the site to explain the head performances were not abuse, after English-speaking visitors arrived in 2001.
Helping the real one
No verified way to support this animal exists.
We will not invent one.
Oolong died in 2003 and his owner's page has been dormant for two decades. There is no route to support him.
Where this comes from
- New Statesman Living the meme: what happened to the bunny with a pancake on its head? ↗
- Wikipedia Oolong (rabbit) ↗
- Know Your Meme Pancake Bunny ↗
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