About

Sogga or Big Soggus refers to a series of ironic memes based on images and videos of various serval cats, most commonly servals named Stryker and Tag. Sogga memes are an extension of Big Floppa, with the two characters often being mentioned together and used in the same way. Sogga first appeared in September 2020 and saw increased use in early 2021.

Origin

On August 30th, 2020 Instagram^[3] meme account @big__floppa, who exclusively posts ironic Big Floppa memes, posted an image of a serval cat lying on its back with the caption, "BIG SOGGUS" (shown below). This is the earliest known mention of the name in association with an image of a serval.

Over the course of the next month, a number of users posted Sogga memes in various ironic meme spaces. Although none of these were particularly popular, they helped spread the image and name around fans of the memes, naturally fitting the character into the extended "Floppa lore" headcanon.

On September 3rd, Redditor u/Kolin-Brett posted two images of serval cats to /r/impede,^[1] one being the big__floppa image without text, simply titled, "sogga," garnering only 11 upvotes in seven months (shown below).

On September 7th, Redditor u/oat_11 posted an image to /r/bigfloppa^[2] of a caracal cat meant to represent Floppa sitting with a serval titled, "Me and who" (shown below). On the same day, Redditor u/XxDankShrekSniperxX commented, "Sogga," becoming the top-upvoted comment.

Spread

Users continued to post Sogga memes, particularly on Reddit and Instagram, over the course of the following months. On September 15th, 2020, Redditor u/Ravenartzzz posted a "Today's Teens" meme to r/BigFloppa^[4] in which everyone flocks to Sogga over Floppa, originally posted by @big__floppa (shown below).

On November 5th, a page for Sogga was added to the Floppapedia^[5] Fandom site in which he's been given an extensive backstory tying into the extended "Floppa lore" universe. On November 26th, Instagram^[9] user @fleepfloppa, a dedicated Floppa irony account, posted a video in which Floppa and Sogga have a "rap battle," garnering over 1,400 views in five months (shown below). The video was uploaded by YouTuber^[10] SPICYMEMES 458 on December 1st, garnering over 38,000 views in four months.

On February 1st, 2021, Instagram^[6] user confused_soup posted a video of a famous social media cat named Stryker^[7] eating a slice of pizza with the caption, "do u call her sogga, glopnar, or serval? serval is the actual name" garnering over 3,300 views in a month. On February 16th, Instagram^[8] user @owen_kung posted the same video sped up with top text that translates to, "it's time to eat" and the caption "Sogga pipza" garnering over 90,000 views in a comparable span of time (shown below).

On February 7th, YouTuber^[11][12] Cult of Flop began posting Floppa content to the site, including a video titled "Floppa vs Sogga deathmatch" in which a caracal hisses at a serval for pawing at it, garnering over 230,000 views in a month (shown below, left). On March 10th, Cult of Flop uploaded a similar video titled "Floppa and Sogga have constant beef," garnering over 133,000 views in three weeks (shown below, right).

These videos are originally taken from the YouTube^[13] channel SpotsAllOver, which documents a serval named Tag (also on Facebook^[14] at Tag the African Serval).

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