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  1. 1LongcatLongcatOne photo of a white cat lifted under the front legs, her body stretching impossibly downward, was enough. It surfaced on the Japanese imageboard 2chan around 2004 or 2005, and the caption "Longcat is long" carried it worldwide. Fans then did what internet folklore does best: they built a…0
  2. 2I Can Has Cheezburger?I Can Has Cheezburger?Happy Cat, the grinning gray cat of "I can has cheezburger?" A chubby gray British Shorthair with a hopeful grin, captioned in broken English, gave the world both the lolcat format and the site I Can Has Cheezburger in 2007. That misspelled cat-speak became the house style of cat captions for…0
  3. 3Keyboard CatKeyboard CatFatso, the original Keyboard Cat The footage is older than the web itself: performance artist Charlie Schmidt filmed his cat Fatso "playing" a keyboard in 1984, moving the paws himself to make it work. He put it on YouTube in 2007 as "Cool Cat," and almost nobody noticed. Then Brad O'Farrell…0
  4. 4Maru (cat)Maru (cat)Maru had one talent, and it was enough: squeezing himself into cardboard boxes far too small for him, then sliding, diving and wedging his way out again. His owner in Japan simply filmed him growing up, with no gimmick beyond patience and a stack of boxes, and the quiet videos became a global…0
  5. 5Lil BubLil BubLil Bub was the runt of a feral litter, found in a rural Indiana toolshed, and born with a multitude of genetic anomalies. An extreme form of dwarfism left her limbs small, and her teeth never came in, so her tongue always poked out. Her owner, Mike Bridavsky, posted about her on Tumblr, and her…0
  6. 6Henri, le Chat NoirHenri, le Chat NoirHenri, the brooding star of Will Braden's films Henri proved a cat video could be written, not just filmed. Will Braden's short films are a French film noir parody that casts him as a weary existentialist, gloomily enduring the spoiled and mundane life of a house cat, and the joke landed with…0
  7. 7Grumpy CatGrumpy CatHer real name was Tardar Sauce, and her permanent scowl came from feline dwarfism and an underbite, not a bad mood. Photos of that face hit Reddit in 2012, and within months she was the default reaction image for every disappointment online. Grumpy Cat matters because she showed how far a meme…0
  8. 8Colonel MeowColonel MeowColonel Meow turned a cat into a full character with a voice. His owners in Los Angeles adopted the Himalayan-Persian cross from a rescue group and named him for his "epic frown and fur," then posted in his voice as a grand commander who called his millions of fans his "minions." The writing, not…0
  9. 9Nala CatNala CatNala is here for what her fame turned into: the cat as a full-time influencer brand. Her owner adopted the Siamese and tabby mix from a California shelter in 2011 and started her Instagram account simply to share photos with friends and family. Steady posting and a very photogenic face did the…0
  10. 10Woman yelling at a catWoman yelling at a catSmudge, the white cat at the dinner table Smudge's half of the meme began as a stand-alone photo on Tumblr in June 2018: a white cat seated at a dinner table behind a plate of greens, wearing a look of pure contempt, captioned "he no like vegetals." In 2019 a Twitter user paired it with a tearful,…0