Roscoe The Cat Sees Himself

Submission 3,179

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About

Roscoe The Cat Sees Himself is an image macro of a cat laying in a sink and discovering his magnified reflection in a mirror. Though the image was first posted to Instagram in August 2019, the image went viral in February 2020 on Twitter and accumulated fan art and object-labeling memes.

Origin

On August 17th, 2019, Instagram user JustBeingRoscoe^[6] posted the image and garnered over 1,100 likes in six months (shown below).

Spread

On February 17th, 2020, Twitter user @pinkafloyda^[1] reposted the image and accumulated over 434,900 likes and 146,300 retweets in ten days.

The next day, Twitter user @PriWi^[2] posted their painted "contribution" to @pinkafloyda and received over 3,900 likes and 350 retweets in nine days (shown below, left). That same day, Twitter user @WeaselFidget^[3] posted an object-labeled meme of the image and gained over 970 likes in nine days (shown below, right). Buzzfeed^[4] and Time^[5] published articles on Roscoe, saying that he lives in Chicago with his owner Katie.