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  1. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  2. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  3. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  4. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  5. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  6. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  7. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  8. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchi meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  9. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  10. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  11. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchi meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  12. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  13. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

  14. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang
  15. Photograph: Jon Huang
    Photograph: Jon Huang

    Manny the Frenchie meets and greets Bulls fans at the United Center.

A bulldog more Internet-famous than some Bulls (SLIDE SHOW)

Meet Manny, the world's most followed French bulldog at the March 9 Chicago Bulls game at the United Center

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Aside from high-calorie edibles and booze, the concourse of the United Center before a Chicago Bulls game offers fans an ecclectic array of distractions. The team has a fairly open-door policy about its arena's pre-tipoff amusements; performers submit applications, and the organization considers all comers. For a random sample of the Chicago entertainment community—bands, DJs, a balloon sculptor twisting latex into hats—that liberal attitude has made the concourse a sort of stage. It's a warmer high-traffic spot to busk than, say, the Jackson Blue Line station. (Although soliciting donations is verboten, tip jars were visible at a recent game.)

The U.C. concourse performers aren't famous, but there is one regular act that's perhaps better known than certain Bulls bench-warmers: Manny the Frenchie, an Instagram-famous bulldog touted as "the world's most popular and followed French bulldog."

When Manny poses for photos with Bulls fans on the concourse, meeting each iPhone flash with a grin, he wears a double-zero jersey or dons a bowtie. And like a true celeb, he comes with an entourage in tow: owners Jon Huang and Amber Chavez, and Dani Majer, Manny's marketing manager.

Manny has more than 450,000 Instagram followers, who can't get enough of the camera-friendly dog's mugging. Compare that to Bulls power forward Taj Gibson, an active 'grammer with merely 215,000 followers. On Twitter, Manny's followers number 17,900—not too shabby for a canine tweeting about his penchant for naps.

Get a photo with Manny on Sunday, March 9, before the Bulls-Heat game at the United Center.

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