Garfi

Garfi

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Added Oct 09, 2014 at 12:47PM EDT by Molly Horan.

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About

Garfi is the name of the cat who gained internet fame after pictures of him was posted to Flickr. Its extremely angry expression has caused his rise to fame, leading him to be compared to Grumpy Cat.

Origin

On December 6th, 2010, Flickr[2] user lov-ela posted a picture of her angry looking cat, Garfi. As of September 2014, the photo has gained over 30,000 views.



On October 2nd, Bored Panda[5] published a collection of the photos titled "Meet Garfi, The World’s Angriest Cat," which identified his owner as Turkish woman Hulya Ozkok.

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On October 7th, 2014, Redditor Dre2k posted a set of images of Garfi to the r/funny[1] subreddit, titling them "Grumpy cat…move over! There's a new sheriff in town! Meet Garfi!" Within 48 hours the post gained over 3,000 points.



The same day the pictures were covered by The Daily Mail[3], and the following day the pictures were covered by several sites including The Huffington Post.[4]

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