Thinking Cat / Pondering Cat
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Thinking Cat, also known as Pondering Cat, refers to a series of memes pairing a photoshopped side-profile image of a cat doing a pondering gesture with a paw. The image of the cat was first posted online in mid-January 2025 on TikTok, with the "thinking cat" memes becoming popularized on TikTok and Instagram Reels in February 2025, often adding humouristc texts as if the pet is having philosophical thoughts about average situations.
Origin
On February 5th, 2019, American artist Douglas Sacha[1] published the “Thinking Cat” image to the Fine art America website. (seen below)
On January 14th, 2025, TikTok[2] user @rexiilol posted the earliest known memetic version of the thinking cat image, which was accompanied by the text “Thinking what job imma get on the 19th of January.” The post (seen below) amassed more than 366,000 plays and 93,000 likes in a month.
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In the following weeks, netizens started to create their own funny texts paired with the thinking cat meme. For instance, user @[work in progress]
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