that's f****** cat meme
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I'm not usually into memes, but these had me crackin' up.
Ottawa's latest Instagram star is a middle-aged white cat that doesn't care for salad
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Kanata's smudge_lord cracked 1.1 million followers this month
Andrew Foote, Joseph Tunney · CBC News · Posted: Nov 15, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: 10 hours ago
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Once upon a time, at a table not very far away, a white cat made a face at a salad. Someone took a picture.
The internet decided it was relatable and began making jokes. Now, more than one million followers keep tabs on the finicky feline.
The cat's name is Smudge, and the moment was captured at a suburban Ottawa home in June 2018.
"He eats dinner at our table. He gets really upset if he doesn't have a chair," said Miranda Stillabower, 24, Smudge's owner.
"Someone got up from dinner and he must have thought, 'Oh, this is my chair,' and he sat there. My brother's girlfriend took the picture."
'Super unimpressed'
OK, but what's with that expression, the one Stillabower sums up as "super unimpressed?"
"I don't know why he was making that face, but it's the best thing he's ever done," she said.
Stillabower thought the picture was funny, so she posted it on her Tumblr blog. It sat there for a few months until it somehow caught on and got shared tens of thousands of times.
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More recently, Smudge's picture was given a second life when someone, for reasons no one can quite fathom, paired it with a screengrab of an angry woman from the Real Housewives reality TV series.
"I think the original photo is [popular] because he looks so dissatisfied with the plate of salad, then [the pairing] looks kind of like an argumentative setup, which is why it's worked so well," Stillabower said.
"Also I want to say that I think Smudge is adorable. I think that's why, too."
'He eats dinner at our table. He gets really upset if he doesn't have a chair,' says Miranda Stillabower, owner of Smudge, a suburban Ottawa Instagram star. (Author Unknown)
The viral meme's other half has confirmed she's a fan of the jokes, by the way.
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1.1 million followers
Now, with more than 1 million followers, smudge_lord has become one of Instagram's few true celebrities from the Ottawa-Gatineau area.
An unscientific sweep of the platform shows:
Good looking out for the origins of this whole thing. As I've been seeing this like crazy on social media... I had no idea where or why it started....
Me too
hilarious...
That white bitch and her white entitled cry
look on her face is funny as fuck!
look on her face is funny as fuck!
