About

Cat With A Gun Redraws, also known as Black Cat With Revolver, refers to an exploitable image and series of redraws depicting a photo of a cat sleeping in a box with a long revolver pointing out from it. The image was posted by X user @keyframequeen in May 2024, inspiring fan art and memes in subsequent days.

Origin

On May 10th, 2024, X^[1] user @keyframequeen posted an image captioned, "Nap time," showing her black cat lying in a styrofoam box with a silver revolver gun pointing out from it. The image gathered over 62,000 likes in two days (seen below).

Spread

On May 11th, 2024, X^[2] user @ilove_borzois posted a redraw of the image in the style of Red Dead Redemption, gathering over 260,000 likes in a day (seen below, left). Also on May 11th, X^[3] user @MachiToons posted a redraw, gathering over 130,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

On May 11th, 2024, X^[4] user @lynlyn_cpk posted fan art in the style of the trend featuring Morgana from Persona 5. The post gathered over 20,000 likes in a day (seen below, left). Also on May 11th, X^[5] user @toximal posted an image of their own cat staged in the manner of the trend, gathering over 50,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

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