The man behind 'Can you pet the dog?' would love to write a book, but he'd settle for just being able to pay rent
Every week, with few exceptions, Tristan Cooper spends anywhere from a few hours to over a dozen hours telling over 500,000 people whether or not they can pet the dog in various video games like, say,"Lost Judgement" .
"As of now I have not made any money on the account," Cooper told Insider in a phone interview earlier this month."I spend a lot of time on it and you could maybe argue that it's helping other people get a spotlight on their games and I'm glad to do that," he said."But there hasn't been a real return for me on that."yes, you can pet the dogThough he denies it,"Can you pet the dog?" has had a major impact on the video game business.
That's true, and he specifically cited Ubisoft's"Far Cry: New Dawn" as part of the inspiration behind the account — a game you not only can pet the dog in, but are specifically directed to on a side mission. Other major games, including"Fallout 4" and"The Last of Us," have featured dogs alongside the main character that were pettable.
But for every example of major games with dogs that could be pet, there are dozens of digital doggos that were unpettable. As the account's popularity has increased, the concept has been used as a marketing bulletpoint for everything
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