TIL the 'woman yelling at cat' meme is from a real show and not just a random photo

I saw someone post it again yesterday with a caption about 'Karens' and it's totally wrong. The woman is a reality TV star from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and the cat's owner made the confused face separately. People keep using it to mean any angry woman, but the original joke was about the cat's silly look. Has anyone else seen this get misused a lot lately?

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the_robin29d ago

Does this mean I've been using my own confused cat photos wrong this whole time?

grace50829d ago

It's part of a bigger thing where we all just guess at the rules for posting stuff online. We see a trend and try to copy it without really knowing why it works. Your cat is probably just as confused as the rest of us.

patricia_schmidt1422d ago

You mentioned people copying trends without knowing why. It makes me wonder if the meme's real meaning got lost because it's so easy to share stuff without the story. We're just passing around the feeling of confusion now, not the joke about the cat's owner.

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