Serious Cat (2005)

added Jul 11, 2009 at 03:34AM UTC

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About

Serious Cat is a popular image macro featuring a picture of a white cat …looking srsly serious. The image is typically accompanied by a caption that reads:

I Are Serious Cat. This is Serious Thread.

Origin

The original picture of the cat was posted in early 2005 on a Korean lulz community, HumorUniv.co.kr. Paired with a picture of a celebrity DJ/rapper Jae-Yong, the XY comparative macro revealed a bizarre resemblance between the two. Instantly captivated by the cat’s seriousness and celebrity likeness, HumorUniv netizens dubbed it Jae-Yong Cat and spread the image across the Korean web, including DCinside, RuliWeb, and Today Humor. Later that year, Jae Young Cat and one of its derivatives were featured as the most reblogged images on Naver.com, a portal search engine site.

Serious Cat


Although the details of its travel routes remain unclear, the popular lolcat made its way over to 4chan and YTMND in August 2006, spawning a series of image macros and derivatives that became known as Serious Cat. In addition, Google Analytics searches for “Serious Cat”: coincide with the rise in demand of Caturday; both are given a boost during the peak of Icanhascheezburger queries.

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19 Comments

Chris Menning
Jul 11, 2009 at 03:43AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

It’s a famous lolcat for sure. But I don’t know that it’s notable enough by its self. I just consider it one of millions of lolcats.

Andre Alessi
Jul 13, 2009 at 01:44AM UTC , Andre Alessi wrote:

As much as I love Serious Cat, I can’t see him as a meme on his own.

I’d love to have some more background on him, though. icanhascheezburger.com should have bios of all the cats featured, seriously.

Chris Menning
Jul 13, 2009 at 01:23PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

I’m reconsidering this. Sure, “serious cat” is just one of many lolcats, but this one image is still more popular than the whole “A master is out” thing has ever been.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22serious%20cat%22%2C%22a%20master%20is%20out%22&cmpt=q

Chris Menning
Jul 19, 2009 at 08:04PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Okay, I’ve found plenty of derivatives.
The next steps are to find out who owns the cat, where he uploaded the pic, and how it got around.

Brad Kim
Sep 01, 2009 at 05:31AM UTC , Brad Kim wrote:

a new lead re: origin of serious cat:

I found the pic of serious cat featured in DCinside’s collection of most popular random images. The article was posted on 2005-06-16, so it could be among the earliest instances. Not sure whose cat though.

click here& for the article and you can see serious cat (as well as Bunchie) towards the bottom of page!

Chris Menning
Sep 06, 2009 at 03:14PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Brad,

I think you’re onto something. I just did a search limited to 2005 for “serious cat”, sorted through a few hundred results, and although people used the phrase “serious cat” it was usually in the context of “I am a serious cat lover” or “check out these serious cat toys.”
I couldn’t find any English-langauge sites featuring a picture of that cat in 2005.
It’s still possible that the image had been floating around but no one had called the cat “Serious Cat” yet. But I don’t know what else to search for relating to this cat.

Chris Menning
Sep 06, 2009 at 03:19PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

I found this on a Russian website.

No clue about the date.

It seems that this is the cat, pre-photoshop.

Chris Menning
Sep 06, 2009 at 03:21PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Also this:

Frketson
Sep 08, 2009 at 12:30AM UTC , Frketson wrote:

macrochan has a section: http://macrochan.org/search.php?tags=Serious+Cat

theaetetus
Oct 03, 2009 at 07:43AM UTC , theaetetus wrote:

heck yes serious cat stands on his own serious paws
seriously, serious cat is OG!

Griff McConal
Dec 04, 2009 at 03:35AM UTC , Griff McConal wrote:

+1 confirm

Brad Kim
Dec 06, 2009 at 12:14AM UTC , Brad Kim wrote:

origin of serious cat unlocked. did some research today, and serious cat was part of an “animal/celebrity look alike” macro fad that went on in 2005. also, i am 70% sure it’s shopped..

feel free to comment if you run across an older instance of serious cat!

Serious Cat
Dec 07, 2009 at 12:46AM UTC , Serious Cat wrote:

what is this i don’t even

Ben "Jammin" Proctor
Dec 07, 2009 at 08:20PM UTC , Ben "Jammin" Proctor wrote:

neve t’nod i siht si tahw

ezekiel.kael
Dec 13, 2009 at 06:00AM UTC , ezekiel.kael wrote:

I bet this cats name is Elcor… Surely someone will agree.

Jordan Johnson
Dec 24, 2009 at 07:21PM UTC , Jordan Johnson wrote:

I want this game!!!

KirjiroSenzuki
Jan 22, 2010 at 11:57AM UTC , KirjiroSenzuki wrote:

SERIOUS CAT IS STARING AT YOUR SOUL

nonea beezwax
Feb 05, 2010 at 07:27PM UTC , nonea beezwax wrote:

SNETH!!!!!!!!!!

Watcher
Mar 06, 2010 at 04:30AM UTC , Watcher wrote:

Delete above three comments as they are spam.

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