About

Hedgehog Eating Cat Food refers to a GIF part of the Cat Feeder Camera trend that grew popular in January 2024. The clip shows an annoyed-looking white cat staring as a hedgehog eats his cat food. The clip inspired Redraws and memes on the internet, with many memes depicting Sonic The Hedgehog eating in front of Blaze the Cat.

Origin

On October 10th, 2023, TikToker^[1] @catzoo1 posted the earliest accessible video of a cat looking annoyed while a hedgehog eats catfood closer to the camera. the post gathered over 12,000 plays and 900 likes in four months (seen below, left).

TikToker^[7] @annettesullivan posted a similar video on October 24th, gathering over 500,000 plays and 88,000 likes in three months (seen below, right)

On January 16, 2024, X^[6] (formerly Twitter) user @realblueluffy posted a GIF with the caption "NEW CAT FEEDER CAMERA GIF DROPPED." The post garnered over 147,000 likes in two days (seen below)

NEW CAT FEEDER CAMERA GIF DROPPED pic.twitter.com/HfxlnHXLic

— BLUE Luffy (@realblueluffy) January 16, 2024

Spread

On January 16th, various X users posted redraws of the aforementioned GIF using characters from Sonic the Hedgehog, with @SoDaft_Potato^[2] and @artisyone^[3] posting images that gathered over 20,000 and 10,000 likes respectively (seen below).

On January 17th, X^[4] user @Aweztube posted a rendition of the GIF that gathered over 49,000 likes in a day (seen below, left). X^[5] user @GameKidsFran posted a version of the image depicting Sonic as well, gathering over 2,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

Various Examples

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