#CatsJudgingKellyanne

About

#CatsJudgingKellyanne is a Twitter hashtag that was started in December 2016 after Special Counselor to the United States President Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway stated that many of her critics on social media have cats as their profile pictures. The hashtag is typically used by posting a picture of a cat that has a judgemental look and a negative statement about Conway. The hashtag was revived in April 2020 after Conway made a false statement about Covid-19.

Origin

On December 16th, 2020, Fox News^[1] reported Kellyanne Conway saying “A lot of them who have attacked me are either childless interns born in the 1990s…or I noticed women who have cats as their Twitter pictures, so I’m not going to really just lose my mind over people attacking me in a 140 characters, I can assure you that." That day, Twitter user and social media cat personality @BitchestheCat^[2][3] tweeted, "Since cat pictures bother @KellyannePolls so much, let's start the #catsjudgingkellyanne hashtag and tag her on all your cat pictures" (shown below). The tweet gained over 660 likes in four years.

Spread

On December 16th, 2016, Twitter user @BitchestheCat^[4] posted a screenshot of the hashtag trending on Twitter (shown below, left). On April 15th, 2020, Kellyanne Conway was featured on Fox News saying, "This is Covid-19, not Covid-1, folks. You would think that people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on top of that. This is just a pause right now."^[7] Covid-19 was name after the year of it's start. Twitter user @Susang^[5] tweeted that day with a picture of a cat and the caption, "Wait…what did she say this time?🤦🏻‍♀️ #catsjudgingkellyanne" (shown below, right). The tweet garnered over 1,100 likes and 120 retweets in a day.

That same day, #CatsJudgingKellyanne began trending again on Twitter. Twitter user @AnanceLLC^[6] posted another picture of a cat and said "#catsjudgingkellyanne Cats know the difference between the 19th version and year 19. Stop lying" (shown below). The tweet received over 90 likes in a day.

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