Thurston Waffles

About

Thurston Waffles is a white cat known for a distinctive and loud meow. Videos of Thurston have been the subject of various remixes.

Origin

On December 4th, 2013, the Vine ^[2] account Thurston Cat posted one of the earliest videos. The caption for the video is "Derp. This is #Thurston in his "Prone Swan" #yoga pose."

Spread

On October 27th, 2016, the Instagram ^[1] account @thurstonwaffles posted a photograph of Thurston with the caption, "I thought for my first Instagram post I should do a sexy throwback to Veronica Lake." The post received more than 220 likes in about three years (shown below).

On June 12th, 2019, the Instagram^[3] page featured a video of Thurston meowing. The post recieved more than 82,000 views and 24,000 likes in less than six months (shown below, left).

Four months later, on October 10th, Instagram^[4] user @vw.mp4 posted a remix of the video, which features the video. The post received more than 32,000 views and 10,000 likes in less than one month (shown below, right).

On October 13th, Facebook user KucingMenangid posted a remix video of the Woman Yelling At Cat meme that places Thurston Waffles in Smudge's place. In a little over one week, the post received more than 727,000 views, 25,000 shares, 12,000 reactions and 3,500 comments (shown below).

Death

On September 7th, 2022, Thurston Waffles' owner wrote^[5][6] that the cat suddenly died aged 15 after a short illness (Instagram post shown below). The posts about Thurston's passing went viral on social media, and were met with messages of support.

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