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History

The history of Animal Face

Animal Face is a Seed Junky Genetics cross of Face Off OG and Animal Mints that was in Washington state lab records by Nov 2018, won first place for indoor flower at the 2022 Emerald Cup in Fig Farms’ hands, and was the top-selling strain on the East Coast in 2025.1,2,3,4

Timeline

  1. Late 1990sIn California, Archive Seeds is given seeds of an OG Kush phenotype that becomes Face Off OG, one of Animal Face’s parents.5
  2. Early 2000sJBeezy starts Seed Junky Genetics in a small garage in Southern California.6
  3. Nov 2018The earliest Animal Face flower results in the state lab records we analyzed, from Washington; our 335 tests run from 2018 to 2023.2
  4. 2019Wedding Cake, another Seed Junky cross with Animal Mints as a parent, becomes Leafly’s Strain of the Year, the first Seed Junky strain to win it.7
  5. 2021The Emerald Cup, long an outdoor competition, admits indoor flower for the first time.8,9
  6. May 14, 2022Fig Farms’ Animal Face, hunted from seed, wins first place for indoor flower at the Emerald Cup, entered in the competition’s “OG & Gas” terpene class.1,3
  7. May 2023Blue Face, Fig Farms’ sister phenotype from the same Seed Junky seed pack, wins indoor flower and becomes the first indoor cultivar to take the Emerald Cup’s Best in Show; Animal Face places fifth.9,10
  8. Sep 2023Westword lists twelve Colorado dispensaries where it has seen Animal Face and names two versions that sell for under $25 an eighth.11
  9. Oct 2023Illinois News Joint reviews Rythm’s Animal Face, bought at a Rise dispensary in Effingham, Illinois.12
  10. 2025The top-selling strain across 14 East Coast markets, per Hoodie Analytics, and in the top 10 of six of them.4
  11. Sep 2026The Marijuana Herald lists Animal Face as Maryland’s top-selling strain; Wedding Cake leads Washington and LA Kush Cake Alaska.13

Why it spread

Competition first. Fig Farms’ Animal Face won first place for indoor flower at the 2022 Emerald Cup, a win SeedFinder says earned the strain even more fame, and a year later its sister phenotype, Blue Face, became the first indoor cultivar to win the competition’s Best in Show.3,9,14

Then the breeder’s reach. Seed Junky also bred Wedding Cake, Leafly’s 2019 Strain of the Year, and Leaf Magazine reports that its main revenue comes from selling flower in California and licensing its genetics and know-how to partners in New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Arizona and New Mexico, as well as abroad.7,15 Animal Face is sold under several brands, from Rythm in Illinois to Phat Panda in Washington and Carmel in Canada.12,16,17

The disputed parts of the story

  • Breeder: Seed Junky Genetics in every database we checked; a Rythm product page on Weedmaps says it was originally bred by the Washington brand From the Soil farms (see genetics).1,14,18
  • Indica or sativa: from about 80% sativa in ILGM’s guide to a “classic, top-shelf indica experience” in Leaf Magazine’s review.19,20
  • Animal Mints’ parents: Animal Cookies × SinMint Cookies per Leafly and SeedFinder’s family tree; SeedFinder’s description also mentions accounts that give other parents.14,21,22
  • Date: none of the sources we opened gives the year of the cross; the earliest dated evidence we have is the lab record in the timeline above.2

Sources

  1. Leafly, Animal Face (aka Animal Face #10) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Cannabis Business Times, Fig Farms wins Indoor Flower category and Indoor Flower Breeder’s Cup at Emerald Cup (Patrick Williams) (2022-05-17). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. GreenState, Forget Blue Dream: this is the East Coast’s favorite weed strain (Rachelle Gordon) (2026-01-15). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Leafly, Face Off OG (aka Faceoff OG Kush) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. SeedFinder, Seed Junky Genetics: breeder info. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Leafly, A look back at past Leafly Strain of the Year winners (2026-02-27). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. Leaf Magazine, Emerald Cup adds indoor and goes online for 2021 (Tom Bowers) (2021-04-13). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  9. High Times, Best strains of the year (Jimi Devine) (2023-12-30). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  10. Weedmaps, 2023 Emerald Cup winners: flower, concentrates, edibles, and more (2023-05-17). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  11. Westword, Why Colorado tokers love Animal Face (Herbert Fuego) (2023-09-06). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  12. Illinois News Joint, Review: Animal Face by Rythm (Michael Lasley) (2023-10-16). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  13. The Marijuana Herald, The top-selling marijuana strain in all 23 states with legal recreational sales (2026-09-18). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  14. SeedFinder, Animal Face (Seed Junky Genetics): strain info. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  15. Leaf Magazine, Fire Follower: Seed Junky Genetics brings sexy Wedding Cake back (David Downs) (2026-08-03). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  16. Leafly, Phat Panda Animal Face (brand product page). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  17. Ontario Cannabis Store, Animal Face (Carmel). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  18. Weedmaps, Rythm Animal Face flower 3.5g (brand product page). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  19. ILGM, Animal Face strain information and review (Robert Bergman) (2021-03-12). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  20. Leaf Magazine, Animal Face (Leaf Picks, Taylor Martin) (2025-02-08). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  21. Leafly, Animal Mints (aka Animal Mintz) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  22. SeedFinder, Animal Face (Seed Junky Genetics): genealogy. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.