Nipfest

About

Nipfest is a fictional festival run by and for cats that is documented yearly on X, formerly Twitter, with photoshops of cats attending the festival. The event was founded in 2019 by X user @BagginsSuperCat and became increasingly popular on X over the following years, seeing a significant spike in popularity in August 2023, leading "#nipfest2023" to trend on August 25th. The festival's name is a portmanteau of "catnip" and "festival."

Origin

Nipfest, a fictional festival for cats, was founded on X in 2019 by @BagginsSuperCat, although the exact origins of its founding are unclear. One of the earliest posts about Nipfest was posted to X^[1] by @BagginsSuperCat, an account that roleplays as a cat on April 9th, 2019, where Baggins suggested she might put a photoshop of herself in a hat on the poster for Nipfest. On April 12th, X^[2] user @TigrissBlue explained Nipfest to another user, writing, "Baggins is holding a kitty festival at her house/garden this Summer and it's been named #Nipfest. She's still warming her human parents up to the idea though…😸."

Spread

Nipfest became increasingly popular on X throughout the 2020s, inspiring users to share photoshopped images of cats at the festival under the Nipfest hashtag, consisting of "#Nipfest" followed by the year. For example, in 2021, numerous X^[3][4] users shared photos of cats under the hashtag #Nipfest2021 (examples shown below).

#NipFest2023

Nipfest 2023 was notably popular, with the tag "#Nipfest2023" trending on August 25th, 2023 in Canada. Like previous years, the hashtag was largely used by X^[5][6][7] users to post photoshops of cats at the festival (examples shown below).

Some X^[8] users, unaware of what Nipfest is, went to the tag expecting "nip" referred to nipples and posted memes under the tag sharing their discovery of the festival (example shown below).

Various Examples

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