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Cat Being Dragged from Window is a four-panel image macro meme featuring a person in a white shirt attempting to pull a cat from the space between a wall and a window.

Origin

The origin of the photograph is unknown. On December 19th, 2018, Twitter ^[1] user @yasmeentxt tweeted the four photos of a cat being removed from the area between a wall and a window. They captioned the photos, "me pushing myself to leave my comfort zone." The tweet received more than 116,000 likes and 50,000 retweets in less than three years (shown below).

Spread

The following day, on December 19th, 2018, Redditor buttandbrains shared an object labeling variation of the meme in the /r/funny.^[2] The post received more than 1,700 points (97% upvoted) in less than three years. One day later, buttandbrains shared the meme in the /r/meow_irl,^[3] where it received more than 24,000 points (97% upvoted) and 125 comments in less than three years (shown below, left).

Months later, on February 17th, 2019, Twitter^[4] user @itsashlyperez tweeted the images with the caption, "May I present to you my favorite series of photos ever. Caption as you will." The tweet received more than 24,000 likes and 5,000 retweets in less than three years (shown below, center).

On March 21st, 2021, Twitter^[5] user @zei_squirrel shared a variation about German philosopher Karl Marx. The post received more than 30,000 likes and 5,200 retweets in less than one month (shown below, right).

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