2019·The platform era
Woman yelling at a cat
Two unrelated pictures joined on Twitter into the decade's most-used argument template.
You might remember it as Smudge the cat
A meme
This Moment began as a post on social media, not as a video upload. Originally published on Twitter.
- SourceNot an upload originally
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
What this was
A meme classified under cats.
It first appeared in 2019, during the platform era.
It became the standard way to draw any disagreement: the furious accuser and the unbothered accused, captions swapped endlessly. Its construction is the point — neither half was made to be a meme, neither half is funny alone, and the joke exists entirely in the juxtaposition somebody made on a social platform.
Smudge became a celebrity in his own right and Armstrong eventually posed for a recreation with him. The format was named among the defining memes of 2019 and turned up on Halloween costumes, greetings cards and advertising within months.
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Grouped by explicit relationships where evidence exists, and by shared theme otherwise.
Behind the recordWhere it came from
There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a post on social media, not as a video upload. Originally published on Twitter.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- A meme classified under cats.
- When
- The sources below date the original to 2019-05-01. ViralWorld records this as a cited claim rather than an established publication date, because it holds no copy to check it against.