BODE

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About

BODE refers to images with the word "BODE" (short for "bodacious") overlaid on them. The images often are of overweight cats, and cat-like creatures, and is popular mostly on Tumblr.

Origin

On the 27th of November, 2016, Tumblr user loghain made a post (shown below) about a dream he had where images of fat cats were posted with "BODE" on top of them, standing for "bodacious". Within 3 days, it gained over 50,000 notes.^[1]

loghains last night I dreamt that there was like a new meme/slang and it was ‘bode, as in like bodacious so like ppl would zoom in on pics of rlly fat cats and it would just say ‘BODE' BODE

Spread

On November 29th, 2016, Tumblr user oh-yeah-mr-krabs posted an image (shown below, left) of an overweight cat with the word "BODE" stretched to seem as if it was on the cat's back. It gained over 2,500 notes in one day.^[2] Later, user mergator posted an image (shown below, right) of a cat sitting up against the wall with the word superimposed on it. It gained over 8,000 notes in a day.^[3].

picture of a fat cat with the word BODE stretched across its back

fat cat leaning against a wall with the word BODE written under it

The next day, bntyhuntr posted an image (shown below, left) of a cat attempting to get through a hole, with "BODE" overlaid. It gained nearly 4,000 notes in a day.^[4] Later that date, Tumblr user classicgansey made a text post (shown below, right) referencing BODE. It gained over 3,000 notes in six hours.^[5]

me seeing a cat that isnt fat: this does not bode well

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^[1] Tumblr – loghain's post / November 27th, 2016

^[2] Tumblr – oh-yeah-mr-krabs' post / November 29th, 2016

^[3] Tumblr (via Wayback Machine) – mergator's post / November 29th, 2016

^[4] Tumblr (via Wayback Machine) – bntyhuntr's post / November 30th, 2016

^[5] Tumblr – classicgansey's post / November 30th, 2016

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Nedhitis

Dec 01, 2016 at 05:33PM EST

So basically, animal variation of THICC.

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This can only end in furry porn sooner or later.

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kawaii-commie

Dec 02, 2016 at 11:20PM EST

This one is actually very odd for a forced meme. Because the meme isn't exactly the pictures of fat cats themselves but the action of turning them into a meme. It's a meta-meme, a medium-aware meme. I'd say memeing has reached the Modern Age, and this is our first example of avant-gard memeing.

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