Animals Being Dicks celebrates it’s first birthday today! I can’t believe it’s been an entire year! If you’ve never heard the story of how the site came to be, I’ll give a quick recap. I was at home, alone. My wife and kids were out of town for the weekend. I was planning on playing L.A. Noire the whole time, but I ended up finishing it about a half hour after they left. So, I turned to 4Chan, naturally. I ended up finding a bunch of animal gifs and I had this idea. I downloaded them all and registered animalsbeingdicks.tumblr.com and posted them all up. I sent them to a few friends and we got a chuckle. Then I added the Facebook buttons and the site just blew up. My buddy, Andrew Golubock has been a tremendous help navigating all the business stuff. As for the posting, it’s still just me updating the site everyday(ish).
Some notable milestones
Here are some statistics from the last year.
- 9,005,994 Visitors
- 5,324,341 of those were Unique
- 131,707,433 Pageviews
- Over 47K Tumblr followers
- Over 256K Facebook likes
- Over 16.7K Twitter followers.
- The site has been featured on the following notable publications:
- Time
- Huffington Post
- Mashable
- CollegeHumor
- The Chive
- Laughing Squid
- The Daily Beast
- Buzzfeed
- Funny or Die
- The Next Web
- Creative Loafing
It’s been a fantastic ride and I love keeping the site going. I want to thank everyone who visits the site, shares with friends and family, sends in new gifs and suggestions. There’s a lot more room to grow, so KEEP ON SHARING THE SITE. There are some cool things planned for the coming year, so keep your eyes peeled.
Thanks for being cool. You make me feel like a natural woman.
