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"You might have noticed this little black pug in your social feeds yesterday. It was submitted to Reddit by user All8Inches on June 6, and within 24 hours, the crazy-faced pup had blown up as a fully-accredited Internet meme: \"Berks Dog.\" \n\n\nBerks Dog\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBerks Derg\n\"Oh my God, tennis ball!\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBerks Derg\n\"Hello. Yes, this is dog.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBerks Derg\n\"I'm a dog. Bark bark.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBerks Derg\n\"Oh my God. I'm a black pug and I can't reach my ball on the picnic table.\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBerks Derg\n\"Oh my God, Milkbones!\"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut that moniker is actually a riff on a previous Internet meme; therefore, \"Berks Dog\" became something of an inside joke that Reddit laughed about all the way to the front page. According to Know Your Meme, \"Berks\" is a reference to an image submitted to Reddit in March \u2014 in it, a girl holds a series of Goosebumps books. The community quickly turned that into an image macro with the caption \"Gersberms, mah fravrit berks\" (\"Goosebumps, my favorite books\"), with a speech impediment caused by a dental retainer.\n\"Berks Dog\" (or, \"Berks Derg\" if you really want to get technical) riffs on the original \"Berks\" meme, as the pug has a similar expression. \nThe Internet certainly had its fun with it, and the meme leapt from Reddit to Tumblr when the popular blog ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS put its signature spin on it. It was subsequently highlighted on the Tumblr radar, and the post has accumulated more than 38,000 notes at the time of this writing.\n\n\n\n\nWhat's your take on Berks Derg? Hilarious? Lame? Or is it too \"inside baseball\" for your taste?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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