Confidence before the phone rings
The imagined calm response disappears when the call actually arrives.
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- The wary reaction
- Me in theory
- The stronger reaction
- Me in practice
- The intimidating little thing
- A phone call
Also called Children Scared of Rabbit · Kids Afraid of Bunny · Boy and Girl Scared of Rabbit
Two children press against the wall while a small rabbit sits nearby. Label the children and rabbit to turn an ordinary task into something that feels much more intimidating.
The tiny animal and the large reaction create the contrast. The rabbit can stand for a phone call, an introduction, or any small thing that feels difficult in the moment.
You can label the children as two people or as two versions of yourself. The girl’s wary look and the boy’s stronger reaction let you compare different levels of confidence.
Camera Shy, a Utah family-photography service, took the picture in early 2015 and shared it on Facebook on March 14. One of the children’s parents posted it to Imgur two days later, and it reached Reddit’s Photoshop community. [1]
Early edits changed the scene itself. By January 2017, a documented Tumblr version used labels to give the children and rabbit abstract roles, the approach used by this template. [1]
The photography service posts the children’s reaction to the rabbit. [1]
A parent’s Imgur post is followed by Photoshop edits on Reddit. [1]
A Tumblr edit assigns ideas to the figures in the photo. [1]
Label the girl above her head, the boy in the open space to his left, and the rabbit just above its ears. Leave the expressions and animal visible.
The rabbit’s label should be an ordinary trigger that explains both reactions. If the children represent two versions of you, make that contrast clear in their labels.
Original captions to try with this template.
The imagined calm response disappears when the call actually arrives.
The same conversation feels different away from a keyboard.
An ordinary encounter defeats the speaker’s advance confidence.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Credits Camera Shy and documents the 2015 posts and later object-labeling format.