About
Landlord Bear is an advice animal image macro series featuring photoshopped images of the North American brown bear (a.k.a. Grizzly bear) wearing a royal crown and various captions poking fun at unethical behaviors and rhetorics stereotypically associated with a greedy landlord.
Origin
On October 2nd, 2014, the Facebook group “Landlord Bear” was created with a photoshopped image of a Grizzly bear wearing the crown of King George XII of Georgia (shown below).[1][6] As of September 28th, 2015, the Facebook page has garnered more than 2,430 likes.
Spread
On the same day, a meme generator page based on the same image of the bear, cropped in the style of a square-dimension image macro, was posted to Imgur under the title “Landlord Bear.”[2]
The meme has since spread to other image-sharing platforms and meme generator sites, including Imgur[4] and Quickmeme.[5] On September 25th, 2015, The Daily Dot interviewed the creator of the bear in character about his origin:[3]
bq.I am just a simple hardworking Landlord who built himself a small multinational empire of caves and condos with his bear hands. Those bear hands being the Arthur K. Sherwood Construction Company, LLC. That’s a lot of hands. That is like 75 hands. All attached to tenant bears who I pay a fraction of their salary back to so they can afford to pay their own landlord’s rent. But to answer your question, yes--only stupid people and muskrats forget to inherit their money.
Notable Examples
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External References
[1]Facebook – Landlord Bear
[2]Imgur – Landlord Bear Meme Generator
[3]The Daily Dot – We spoke to the infamous Landlord Bear, a capitalist meme run amok
[4]Imgur – search: landlord bear
[5]Quickmeme – Landlord Bear
[6]Wikimedia – File:Crown of George XII of Georgia.jpeg