Memes: Cats
This page lists the 28 memes we currently document in the category “Cats”. Each one links to a full article: where it came from, and every Solana coin that tried to cash in on it.
- Apple Cat1 coin
Apple Cat is a cute-absurd meme character — a fuzzy little cat peeking out of a bright red apple — that spread through Discord and social media from 2020 and is best known for its looping animated form and a long-running friendly rivalry with Banana Cat.
- Banana Cat1 coin
Banana Cat is a cat wearing a banana suit whose defining trait is that it will burst into hysterical tears at essentially any provocation, including none. It is the crying half of the "Happy Happy Happy Cat" universe, an ongoing collaborative cartoon series assembled by strangers, and it is one of the earliest mainstream examples of AI-edited animal content becoming a genuine meme rather than slop.
- Bleh Cat1 coin
A cat named Milly stuck her tongue out at an Instagram camera in July 2022. A month later she was the face of every refusal to do homework, chores, or anything else asked of anyone. The picture contains no joke of its own and never needed one, only a task to reject, which is why it has outlasted almost everything launched alongside it. A contract carrying her face has existed since March 2024 and is worth less than a used phone. The one people actually bought was minted at 06:09 UTC on 1 August 2026, forty eight minutes after the post it was launched from.
- Bongo Cat1 coin
Bongo Cat is a crudely drawn white cat that slaps a flat surface with both paws, and through the miracle of editing, plays every instrument ever recorded. It is one of the very few memes with no cruelty, no irony and no victim, which is why the internet described it in 2018 as the most wholesome thing it had produced that year. It later acquired a Solana ticker, because everything does.
- Cat in a Dog's World (MEW)3 coins · OG $MEW
Cat in a Dog's World (ticker MEW) is a cat-themed memecoin launched on the Solana blockchain in 2024, conceived as a feline challenger to the dog-dominated memecoin sector. Its branding leans on the long internet tradition of cat memes, positioning the cat as an underdog, or 'undercat', in a world of dog coins. Its rapid early success is often credited with helping kick off what crypto users called 'cat season.'
- Chonky1 coin · OG $CHONKY
Chonky is 'the fattest cat on Solana,' an OG cat memecoin built around a hefty, food-obsessed cat mascot drawn from the internet's beloved 'chonk' / 'absolute unit' fat-cat humor.
- Coughing Cat1 coin
A cat with its mouth stretched into an impossible circle and its eyes gone wide and glassy, which is not a real cat face but a photoshop. Somebody looked at it and decided it was exactly how small children cough, and that single caption turned a doctored animal picture into one of the most reused reaction images of the late 2010s. It is still working eight years later, mostly on TikTok, where the format switched from the photoshop to real video of real cats freeze framed at the worst possible moment.
- Drooling Cat1 coin · OG $DROOLING
Drooling Cat is a 2026 reaction-image meme built around a dazed, 'fried'-looking cat with a long blue line of drool hanging from its mouth. A 'crowd of drooling cats' variant went viral on X in mid-2026 to depict a mob of people utterly mesmerized by something, and the image was spun into the DROOLING memecoin on Solana.
- Gasspas1 coin
Gasspas is a cat drawn by Matt Furie, the artist who made Pepe the Frog and then spent a decade watching the internet take him apart. The character first appeared in ZOGZ, a set of 111 original illustrations Furie released as NFTs in May 2023, and resurfaced two years later in previews of Cortex Vortex, a hand screenprinted book limited to about 110 signed copies, where he looms over a pair of rats like a landlord. Within days of those previews circulating, traders did the obvious arithmetic: new Furie character, unclaimed name, no contract. Two Ethereum tokens called Gasspas appeared three days apart in May 2025. The second one got the market, the exchanges and the coverage. The first one got there first. Neither has ever been endorsed by Furie.
- Grumpy Cat1 coin · OG $GRUMPY
A cat named Tardar Sauce whose permanent frown, caused by feline dwarfism and an underbite, made her the internet's mascot of pessimism and NO.
- GTA 6 Bodega Cat1 coin · OG $GATO
Rockstar spent a decade and a reported fortune building the most anticipated video game of the century, and the thing a chunk of the internet fixated on was a tabby sitting on top of an ATM in a liquor store, washing itself while a protagonist buys beer. The bodega cat is background dressing. It has no name in any Rockstar material, no dialogue, no mission, and it occupies a couple of seconds of footage. It became a fan mascot anyway, because that is what happens when several hundred million people freeze frame the same trailer for a year looking for something nobody else has noticed yet. By August 2026 the cat had a fan site, a lore page inventing a whole personality for it, and a token.
- Le Chaton Fat1 coin · OG $Chaton
Le Chaton Fat ('the fat kitten') is a plump white cat that became the mascot of a running joke mocking the way frontier AI labs launch new models. Born as a fake benchmark chart in June 2026, the chubby feline 'tops the leaderboard' with deliberately impossible specs, satirizing hype-driven model announcements.
- Lil BUB2 coins
Lil BUB was a tiny, enormous eyed, permanently tongue out cat from Bloomington, Indiana, and one of the defining internet animals of the 2010s. Born on 21 June 2011 as the runt of a feral litter with a stack of genetic conditions, she was adopted by Mike Bridavsky, photographed onto Tumblr that November, and shoved into the mainstream by Reddit's front page. What separates her from the rest of the cat celebrity class is what the fame was spent on. Her fund with the ASPCA has pushed hundreds of thousands of dollars into shelters for special needs animals, and a crowdfunded sequencing project found a mutation in her genome previously documented in only a handful of humans and one mouse. She died on 1 December 2019, aged eight.
- Meep Cat1 coin
Meep Cat is Timi, a fluffy calico cat with wide, soul-piercing eyes who became a TikTok sensation through short clips set to the squeaky 'meep' voice filter. The format is dead simple and endlessly repeatable: a tiny cat noise, a chirpy filtered 'meep,' and Timi's unblinking stare. It spread far beyond the original account as one of the internet's cozy cat-brainrot staples.
- Merv the Cat2 coins · OG $Merv
Merv is a Siamese cat who was pulled off the street in Los Angeles in 2017 and then spent the next several years arguing with her owners on camera. She does not miaow so much as declaim, and one of her noises, a strangled two-syllable yowl her family transcribed as BAGAGWA, became the catchphrase that carried the account past two and a half million TikTok followers. The captions are written in her voice, in deliberate typo-ridden all-caps, which is most of the joke. In August 2026 the trenches noticed her, and inside 48 hours roughly twenty contracts across four chains were named after the same cat, several of them using invisible characters and reversed text to imitate the one with a market.
- Monthly Salary Cat1 coin
Monthly Salary Cat is a hand drawn sticker cat from the Chinese internet whose entire personality is being broke. She is a Ragdoll, drawn in thin flat lines with no background and a permanently defeated face, and she is named after the fact that buying her cost her owner exactly one month of pay. Her regular co-star is an orange ex stray called Miaomiao. The stickers spread through Chinese chat apps as shorthand for payday euphoria and end of month poverty, broke out into the mainstream around June 2026, and then went global when people animated her and set her dancing to sped up pop tracks. By late July 2026 she had Telegram sticker packs, crochet keychains, a TikTok AR effect and a swarm of tokens using her name.
- Nubcat1 coin · OG $NUB
Nubcat is a surreal blue cat character that grew from a long-running indie webcomic into one of Solana's signature cat memecoins.
- Nyan Cat1 coin · OG $NYAN
A pixel-art cat with a Pop-Tart body trailing a rainbow as it loops endlessly across a starry sky, scored to a chirpy Japanese pop hook. It is one of the internet's most iconic early-2010s memes.
- OIIA OIIA (Spinning Cat)1 coin · OG $OIIAOIIA
OIIA OIIA is a grey cat rotating on its own axis at a speed no living cat has ever achieved, set to a nonsense vocal loop that sounds like a synthesiser trying to pronounce a vowel. It is the purest form of internet content: no joke, no punchline, no message, just a cat spinning until you feel something. It became a Solana memecoin in September 2024 and, unusually for the category, is still spinning.
- Popcat1 coin · OG $POPCAT
Popcat is an internet meme built from two photos of a domestic shorthair cat named Oatmeal, one with its mouth closed and one digitally edited into a wide 'O' shape, toggled rapidly to make the cat appear to 'pop.' It originated on social media in October 2020, spawned the viral clicking game popcat.click in December 2020, and later lent its imagery to a high-profile Solana memecoin (POPCAT) during the 2024 crypto cycle.
- Rave Cat1 coin
Rave Cat is a kitten that appears to be dancing on a wet beach, posted on 6 August 2026 by the X account @belindomita with a caption in Spanish that translates to "My alarm ringing for 10 minutes. Me in my dreams:". The joke is a piece of sleep science everyone has lived through: when an alarm goes off during REM sleep, the brain would rather write the noise into the dream than admit it is morning. The cat is what that looks like from the inside. The post cleared 470,000 likes in three days, TikTok turned it into a format within hours, and by the next afternoon there were contracts on three chains named after a cat nobody has been able to identify.
Rika-chan is a kitten Atsuko Sato found walking alone near a fish market. Atsuko Sato is the woman whose 2010 blog photographs of a Shiba Inu named Kabosu became Doge, which became Dogecoin, which became the founding document of every animal token that followed. That lineage is the entire story here. On 29 July 2026 Osso Magazine published an interview in which Sato said animal rescue and welfare advocacy had become the central mission of her life, and introduced her newest rescue by name. The internet, which has spent more than a decade turning her dog into a currency, immediately did the same thing to her cat. A contract called Rikacoin appeared on Solana three days after the interview carrying no image, no description and no website. The version anybody actually traded arrived on 21 August 2026 and moved roughly 3.7 million dollars across 144,000 trades in its first twelve hours. Sato has no connection to any of it. She had already said as much a month earlier, about a different cat token that used one of her Instagram posts without asking.
- Shark Cat1 coin · OG $SC
A rescue cat from a Los Angeles County shelter, photographed in a hand crocheted grey shark hood, reposted until the picture stopped belonging to anybody. Nala is a real animal with a real owner, a Guinness World Record and a talent agency. The shark hat was merchandise sold from her own store. In March 2024 the picture walked off on its own, became a Solana token nobody had asked permission for, touched a 390 million dollar market capitalisation, and ended up settled by contract instead of in court.
- Sky Super Cat1 coin
Sky is a Scottish Fold from a Russian speaking household who has spent five years being filmed doing the things cats are not supposed to do. The account that posts him describes him in two words, very strange cat, and about 2.3 million TikTok followers have decided that is accurate. He has been online since at least June 2021 and the account counts more than 900 million total views. His token history is the strange part. Two Sky Super Cat mints were created in May 2024 and both died with no liquidity. The one that finally worked launched on 25 August 2026, ran to nearly 5 million dollars inside a day, and was immediately surrounded by roughly eighteen tokens using the same name and the same picture across four different chains. None of them is the cat's.
- Tsutsuji (Doge's Cat Sister)2 coins
Tsutsuji is the cat who lived with Doge. Atsuko Sato, the Japanese kindergarten teacher who adopted the shiba inu Kabosu in 2008 and whose blog produced the single most valuable photograph in internet history, also kept cats, and Tsutsuji was the senior one. She appears throughout the same blog that gave the world Doge, sometimes in the same frame, generally looking unimpressed at being adjacent to fame. Her one great line comes from Sato's book about Kabosu, where Sato's husband is quoted saying that if Kabo-chan is DOGE then Tsutsuji-chan is CATE, because the cat had a habit of striking exactly the same pose as the dog. Crypto heard this and did what crypto does. Tsutsuji has been minted at least nine separate times across Ethereum, Solana and Robinhood Chain since December 2023, none of it with any input from Sato, and no two of those contracts agree on which one came first.
- Wi Wi Wi Cat1 coin
An orange kitten called Pepe makes a noise while eating that sounds like wi wi wi, and occasionally uyayaya. That is the entire meme. It should have died in a week. Instead the audio became the backing track for hopecore, the TikTok genre where wholesome footage of people, animals and landscapes is stitched into a montage designed to make you feel briefly all right about being alive, and the numbers went somewhere absurd. One edit took 99.2 million views in a single week. The cat has been earning for two and a half years and has never seen a cent.
- World Licking Cat1 coin · OG $lickingcat
World Licking Cat is a four and a half second clip of a heavyset tabby licking a spinning desk globe, which surfaced on X in the small hours of 8 August 2026 and was the internet's default reaction video by lunchtime. The appeal is the scale error: a cat grooming a plastic ball reads, if you squint, as a cat grooming the planet. Within a day people were editing him onto the moon, blaming earthquakes on his tongue and inventing a Cat Earther conspiracy. He landed on International Cat Day, which nobody planned and everybody used. A token carrying his name was minted roughly ten hours after the video went up.
- Yepcat1 coin · OG $yep
Yepcat is the thumbs-up 'yep' reaction cat: a relaxed cat throwing a casual thumbs-up, used online as an emphatic way to say 'yep.' It became especially recognizable as the sticker TikTok auto-suggests first whenever someone types an affirmative like 'yep,' 'yes,' 'yeah' or 'mhm.'
