The original image of Nelson was posted to the dog's Twitter, @PupperNelson, on September 30th, 2018. There, some popular posts include one by user donkeyfromshrek5 that gained over 3,900 points (shown below, left). Despite that, some users still attempted to sneak in memes with Nelson, including a post by F3v3rDr34m3r that gained over 9,600 points (shown below, left) and a post by Govern_ showing a different picture of Nelson, gaining over 410 points (shown below, right).