WeRateDogs

Absolutely.

And I have to admit, even though you did see me write it down, I will try not to go too much down the rabbit hole because my favourite Instagram handle is basically WeRateDogs, which is basically...

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

We have three.

They first joined We Rate Dogs in 2024 when they performed a private concert for some rescue puppies.

Yeah.

Uh, please welcome Sinya, Judah, and Maia, better known as Tiny Habits.

It was pretty cool.

Yeah.

I remember when I started We Rate Dogs, it was kinda like I listened to everything that my few followers at the time were telling me.

Mm-hmm.

We did ...

So we do calendars every year, and like three years ago, along with the We, We Rate Dogs calendar, we did a We Only Rate Dogs calendar, where it was a bunch of, um, animals that were not dogs, or we said that they weren't dogs.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uh, and apparent- so Kelly, I, I, we appreciate your support on that one.

And, um, as part of the, the c- part of the commercial, um, was a nationwide map that showed the coverage of Ring Doorbells.

Um, and people immediately recognized it as dystopian, and there was quick and widespread backlash, and, uh, one of the, I think, things, for, to me, to me, one of the things, the biggest things that stood out was the We Rate Dogs guy speaking out against it, you know?

[chuckles]

Like, again, like, if people are not familiar, there's a social media, uh, campaign or, like, account called We Rate Dogs where, uh, uh, to, to my knowledge, they've only other, ever have pictures of dogs, right?

Yeah.

And so every dog is, like, a 15 out of 10 rate- rated and, you know, it's maybe hearkens back to the, the days when, um, social media was kinder.

Um, but the We Rate Dogs guy, who was a guy, um, got on and said, "Ring search party is obviously not about finding dogs," you know.

Um, so there was a lot of fallout from that commercial.

Okay.

Uh, we have featured in We Rate Dogs', uh, life cycle many of these interspecies relationships as responsibly as we can.

Sure.

Of course.

So that one definitely made me smile.

Uh, my favorite thing every week is, uh, if, uh, you, if you follow We Rate Dogs, it's the top five dogs-

Yes

... of the week.

Do you not know it?

Oh, it is absolutely amazing.

We Rate Dogs.

We Rate Dogs.

Yeah.

Or like that WeRateDogs account where all the dogs are like 13 or 14 out of 10.

Mm.

That's, that's us.

There were, by my count, dozens of articles in the ensuing days about this.

I think one way to show the extent to which this pissed people off was that, I don't know if you know the We Rate Dogs account, social media account.

Yes, I

love that one.

Okay.

So there's a guy, I didn't even know it was a guy, but there's like a, we rate dogs account.

And I think 99 to a hundred percent of their content is posting images and cute comments of dogs.

Yeah.