About
Trash Doves is a set of Facebook stickers featuring a large-eyed purple pigeon in various situations, the most notable of which is an animated sprite of the bird vigorously thrashing its head up and down. Shortly after its debut on Facebook in January 2016, the purple dove sticker set quickly became a viral subject of photoshopped parodies and image macros on the social media.
Origin
Florida artist and Adobe creative resident Syd Weller’s “Trash Doves” sticker set officially made its Facebook debut[1][2] on January 31st, 2017, which included an animated emoji of a headbanging pigeon (shown below).
As early as on February 7th, the sticker suddenly went viral in Thailand, beginning with a music video posted on the Facebook page สัตว์โลกอมตีน[4] (Animals With Paws), where it garnered more than 3.7 million views within five days.
Spread
Throughout the week, the purple dove stickers continued to gain momentum on Facebook Thailand, which was then picked up by several Thai internet news outlets[5][6][7] in the following days. By February 11th, the “purple dove” sensation had reached the English-speaking Facebook, prompting a flood of spam comments featuring the headbanging sticker on the social networking site, as well as a growing volume of image macros and photoshopped videos based on the same image on Facebook[9][10], YouTube[11] and Reddit[12][13], among others.
Examples
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