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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] teft@startrek.website 27 points 7 months ago

That cat in the upper right has to be a Botero. That guy loves chonk.

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 17 points 7 months ago

i emotionally identify as lower right corner cat

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

This is my favorite kind of fucked up looking cat painting. It's not nearly as bad as some, but it makes me laugh. Goya was really like, "here are portraits of royalty, here's some real violent shit, aaaand here a couple of cats throwing down."

[–] Scrappy@feddit.nl 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I found this one in an old castle last summer, still cracks me up

[–] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 10 points 7 months ago

They never get the faces right.

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why do the French get to see they're true form?

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

Same personalities.

[–] Moof_Kenubi@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

"Okay, I did it. I have painted your cat."

"Grand! Is it framed yet?"

"Is it WHAT."

"Framed, my good fellow! I want the portrait framed!"

"The... I will be right back."

an angry purple cat runs about in the background

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Bottom right was me when I took Ayahuasca

[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cat on the lower left is holding up a rat to defend itself, as if to say "Don't come any closer!"

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

"He bites!"

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago
[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

They had AI art generation before computers

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The top left one is stylishly painted and I love it. The others are pretty remarkable in how bad they are.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Top left one is just stretching. I've seen cats look exactly like that when stretching, same face and all, no stylisation required, other than what's already naturally built-in due to them being cats.

Top right one is somewhat stylised, but mostly is just high on catnip.

The other two... yeah, those ain't very good.