Grumpy Cat (2012)

Tardar Sauce (April 4, 2012 — May 14, 2019), nicknamed Grumpy Cat, was an American Internet celebrity. She came to prominence when a photograph of her was posted on September 22, 2012 on social news website Reddit by Bryan Bundesen, the brother of her owner Tabatha Bundesen.

She was the subject of a popular image macro* meme in which humorously negative, cynical images were made from photographs of her with her unimpressed expression (the result of dwarfism and an underbite). In 2019, CNet rated it the number 3 meme of the decade. As of June 3, 2023 Grumpy Cat had 8.3 million total likes on Facebook, 2.6 million followers on Instagram, 1.5 million followers on Twitter and 276,000 subscribers on YouTube.

*Macro Meme: A macro meme is an image background with caption text placed over the top and bottom of the image.