{"id":181,"date":"2025-11-05T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memes.sydneybroberg.com\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2025-11-13T18:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:17:18","slug":"grumpy-cat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/memes.sydneybroberg.com\/index.php\/grumpy-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Grumpy Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Evolution of Grumpy Cat<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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In 2012-2014, Grumpy Cat was everywhere Appearances on TV shows like The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/em> and The Today Show<\/em> quickly transformed Grumpy Cat from an internet meme into a real-life celebrity. Just days after her first viral post, her owner, Tabatha Bundesen\u2014who co-owns Grumpy Cat with her brother, Bryan\u2014was able to quit her waitressing job as offers for merchandise, media appearances, and book deals began pouring in.<\/p>

She has 2.4m followers on Instagram, 1.5m on Twitter and 8.5m likes on Facebook. She has children’s books and even a Christmas movie, but how did she get here?<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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A Grumpy Cat Timeline<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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April 4, 2012<\/div><\/div>
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Tardar Sauce (Grumpy Cat) is born<\/div>
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Tardar Sauce (Grumpy Cat's real name) is born in Morristown, Arizona. Her perpetually \"grumpy\" expression was the result of feline dwarfism and an underbite.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

September 22, 2012<\/div><\/div>
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Meet Grumpy Cat<\/div>
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Owner Tabatha Bundesen's brother, Bryan, posts a photo of the cat on Reddit with the caption, \"Meet grumpy cat\". The post immediately goes viral, garnering over a million views within 48 hours.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
September 23, 2012<\/div><\/div>
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Tardar Sauce is authenticated<\/div>
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Skeptical Reddit users claim the photo is Photoshopped, prompting the family to post a video of Tardar Sauce on YouTube to prove her authenticity. The video amasses 1.5 million views in just 36 hours, solidifying her fame. The image becomes a popular \"lolcat\" style meme, with users adding cynical and negative captions such as \"I had fun once. It was awful\".<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
March 2013<\/div><\/div>
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Grumpy Cat is a star!<\/div>
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Grumpy Cat appears at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas, drawing massive crowds and a three-block-long line of fans, and is named the festival's biggest star.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

May 2013<\/div><\/div>
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Grumpy Cat is featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal<\/div><\/div><\/div>
May 2013<\/div><\/div>
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Meme of the Year<\/div>

Grumpy Cat wins BuzzFeed's \"Meme of the Year\" Award at the Webby Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Friskies.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

2014<\/div><\/div>
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Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever<\/div>
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Grumpy Cat stars in her own Lifetime original movie,\u00a0Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever<\/em>, with the voice provided by actress Aubrey Plaza.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
2015<\/div><\/div>
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Grumpy Cat gets a wax figure<\/div>
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A wax figure of Grumpy Cat is unveiled at Madame Tussauds in San Francisco.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

2019<\/div><\/div>
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Rest In Peace Tardar Sauce<\/div>
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Grumpy Cat passes away peacefully at the age of 7... but her legacy lives on in all of us.\u00a0<\/p>

Grumpy Cat is remembered as one of the first and most successful internet pet influencers, whose accidental fame paved the way for the monetization of viral animal content and left a lasting mark on internet culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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