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]

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].

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]

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