Girl Tracing Cat

About

Girl Tracing Cat refers to a series object label memes based on a photograph of a young girl holding down a cat and tracing the outline of the cat, only to reveal a crudely drawn picture of the cat. Online, people have used the meme to discuss poor imitations of various products, properties and culture artifacts.

Origin

On August 2nd, 2018, Instagram ^[1] user Nguyen Quang posted a picture of their sister tracing a kitten and the end result. They captioned the posts (shown below), "Đây là em gái mình, khi cô giáo giao bài tập về nhà là "vẽ con mèo nhà em"!" (translation: "This is my sister, when the teacher gave her homework 'draw your cat!'"

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Several weeks later, on August 26th, Twitter ^[2] user @anxwz posted the images. The post received more than 235,000 retweets and 687,000 likes in 24 hours.

The following day, Twitter^[3] user @mryyyyym responded to the post with an object-labeled version of the image with the labels "me" on the cat and "life" on the girl. The post (shown below, left) received more than 630 retweets and 2,800 likes in 24 hours.

On August 28th, Redditor ^[4] Bernard_Carr posted a variation that criticizes music streaming service Apple Music for being an imitation of the music streaming service Spotify. The post (shown below, center) received more than 39,000 points (90% upvoted) and 585 comments.

That day, the meme was posted on the /r/MemeEconomy, ^[5] where it received more than 29,000 points (87% upvoted) and 3,000 comments in 24 hours.

Over the next several hours, Redditors began posting variation of the meme, expressing what they find to be imitations of various products (example below, right).

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