- Meme Description
- Features cat with tear-filled eyes giving thumbs-up sign
- Shows sadness while accepting current situation
- Created through photoshopping of existing cat memes
- Usage Contexts
- Commonly used to respond to criticism
- Expresses feeling obligated to do something despite reluctance
- Shows complex emotions after completing difficult tasks
- Used to express disappointment and need to get over it
- Origin and Evolution
- First appeared on JabGood servers as simple thumbs-up
- Gained popularity on Reddit in 2020
- Became viral through Twitter and Reddit communities
- Part of larger cat meme tradition including Serious Cat
- Related Memes
- Serious Cat originated in South Korea in 2005
- Crying Cat meme appeared in 2014 as photoshopped version
- Thumbs Up Cat series started in 2011 YouTube video