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

The birth of the crying cat The crying cat meme, also known as Sad Cat or Schmuserkadser, started with a photoshopped image of the Serious Cat meme. An anonymous user on Meme Generator posted this ...

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.

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 came to life when Lifetime made a Grumpy Cat movie. However, nothing could ever replace the original meme. in 2016, she made an appearance on a Disney Chanel show, and that was her last ...

Also, Smudge's face is pretty relatable in general." Just as TikTok did to Lil Nas X, the viral meme turned Smudge into a star. He's become arguably the most popular online feline since Grumpy Cat.

He said his meme career started when family friend Charlie Schmidt, who had created Keyboard Cat, wanted advice on how to handle the sudden fame. It’s Grumpy Cat, though, that has captured the ...