“They were pretty universally loved,” he said to The Daily Beast. “I was like, ‘Oh, amazing. I think the internet loves dogs just as much as I do.’” “It was the perfect storm of what Twitter needed. There were funny animal accounts [at the time], but no one was putting effort into the captions of those photos,” Nelson said. Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Please use high-res photos without watermarks Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB.