About

Cat Sniping Crying Cat is a two-panel image macro series featuring an image of a cat looking into the scope of a sniper rifle above an image of a crying cat with a crosshair of its face, indicating that the sniping cat is aiming at the crying cat. The image has been the subject of a object labeling series of memes.

Origin

On March 20th, 2014, Joy Reactor^[1] user Antoshka shared the earliest available image of the cat with the sniper rifle (shown below, left). Two years later, on September 5th, 2016, an anonymous 4chan ^[2] user shared an image of a sniper aiming at the crying cat (shown below, right).

On October 28th, 2016, Tumblr ^[3] user teathattast shared a parody of the cover art for the video game Call of Duty featuring the two images. Within four years, the post received more than 730 notes (shown below). The post is the earliest available variation of the meme. The image features the watermark @jzargoshepard. However, the image is no longer available on that user's social media accounts.

Spread

On April 21st, 2018, Redditor ^[4] GoGoGoRL shared the image without the Call of Duty logo. The post received more than 160 points (100% upvoted) in less than two years (shown below, left).

The following year, on September 12th, 2019, Redditor^[5] iaaX-R6 shared an object-labeling variation of the image. The post received more than 23,000 points (97% upvoted) and 80 comments (shown below, center).

On November 6th, Redditor^[6] XxXMasterBait_69XxX shared a variation about class clowns and substitute teachers. The post received more than 52,000 points (96% upvoted) and 240 comments in less one week (shown below, right).

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