Smudge the cat became a popular internet meme after Twitter user @MISSINGEGIRL made a post of salad-hating Smudge beside a screen grab from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

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 ...