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Catturd Running Over His Dog refers to the death of conservative Twitter / X user Catturd's dog Smiles in March 2024 who was accidentally run over by Catturd when he was backing up his pick-up truck. On the day of, Catturd made a long-form post about the event, which gained earnest reactions from followers and sympathizers. At the same time, Catturd's opponents made memes and jokes about the death and resurfaced it when Catturd made seemingly unfounded claims and statements about the Baltimore Bridge Collapse later on. The death was used to undermine Catturd's claims by comparing the killing of his dog to events that he deemed evil, bad or "deliberate."

Origin

On March 20th, 2024, X^[1] user @catturd2 tweeted a long-form post, first writing, "I don't even know how I'm going to post this. I lost Smiles a few hours ago." He further stated that he had backed over his dog Smiles with his pick-up truck. Over eight days, the tweet received over 5.6 million views and 93,000 likes (shown below, click to enlarge).

Later on March 20th, @catturd2 posted another X^[6] post that read, "Thank you so much for all your kind messages. I’m signing off for the day. I’m just so crushed right now," receiving over 53,000 likes in eight days.

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In the replies, Catturd received positive responses from his followers and supporters, like X^[2] user @BasedSavannah on March 20th, 2024, who posted a picture of Smiles, first writing, "I’m crying for you…" gaining over 2,800 likes in eight days (shown below, left). Others, like X^[3] user @Jules31415, tweeted photos of Smiles, saying, "He’s giving us all the side-eye from Heaven now, Catturd," gaining over 5,200 likes in eight days (shown below, right).

Also on March 20th, memes and reactions were posted by Catturd's opponents, like a quote shared by X^[4] user @JohnWakefieId on March 20th, who captioned the painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581 with, "Catturd after turning his dog into a pancake due to being a fat retard," receiving over 32,000 likes in eight days (shown below, left).

Later on March 20th, 2024, X^[5] user @swd2 tweeted a screenshot of @catturd2's "signing off" tweet,^[6] pointing out, "you can't run over your dog and tweet 'I'm just so crushed.' Come on now," amassing over 2,800 likes in eight days (shown below, right).

On March 21st, 2024, X^[7] user @reaghhan tweeted four screenshots of posts shared by Catturd involving different health-related issues with his pet dogs, captioning them, "PLEASE stop giving this man dogs🙏🏻," gaining over 29,000 likes in a week (shown below).

Discourse about the death of Smiles also spread on Reddit, evident in a post shared in the /r/Hasan_Piker^[8] subreddit on March 22nd.

On March 26th, 2024, in the aftermath of the Baltimore Bridge Collapse, Catturd quoted Andrew Tate who was starting a conspiracy theory about the collapse being deliberate. Catturd's quote^[9] said, "Definitely looks deliberate," gaining over 36,000 likes in two days.

Soon after on March 26th, X^[10] user @smod4real tweeted a screenshot of Catturd's quote,^[9] writing, "Amazing insight from someone who just ran over his own dog," receiving over 41,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Viral posts and discourse about Catturd running over his dog continued on X^[11] and Reddit^[12] going into late March 2024.

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