The amusing photographs – dating back to the early 1900s – could be seen as the original cat memes. They were taken by Harry Whitter Frees, an American photographer.

The meme started when the picture to the right was posted at Reddit by RocketRobinhood on January 4th, 2011. It was then turned into an advice animal macro by unclenoah at Reddit; that picture is ...

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 dramatic popularity of the Grumpy Cat meme But nobody could have expected how dramatically fast her popularity was about to take off. Within two days of the original posts, the debut Imgur ...

The original cursed cat meme started in Russia in 2018 when a photo of a black cat crossing the street was photoshopped to look weird and unnatural. In 2019, this meme made its way to Reddit and ...

It's a pretty faithful rendition of the original, and it looks like plenty of other users think so, too – it's currently got just over 42,000 upvotes as of this story.

In each edition of web_crawlr we have exclusive original content every day. On Saturday our Video Producer Kyle Calise explores the origins and history of the most iconic memes online in his ...