In late 2019, an unexpected meme captured the internet's heart: Taylor Armstrong, a reality TV star, and Smudge, a perplexed white cat.

“But there’s a spark, a story already building when a meme starts to spread. Keyboard Cat, Grumpy Cat—they don’t have to be stupid cats on the Internet. They can be timeless.

It’s unclear what the origin of the laughing cat photo is. The fuzzy image of an orange and white cat has a pointing emoji added to it. The meme started appearing online in the fall of 2023.

Though Stillabower first shared her cat’s viral picture on Tumblr in 2018, Smudge didn’t start to pop up everywhere until the spring of 2019, when someone combined it with a meme from The Real ...

The meme was posted to Twitter on May 1, 2019, and it soon gained more than 77,000 retweets and 274,000 likes. Thus, the "Woman Yelling at Cat" meme was born.

2019 produced several popular internet trends and viral memes, including "woman yelling at a cat," which uses side-by-side photos of a woman yelling and an angry white cat sitting at a table. The ...

The cat, whose real name is Tardar Sauce, first went viral for her expression in 2012, spurring thousands of memes and Internet immortality. Grumpy Cat's Facebook page has attracted 8.7 million ...