Memes: Cats
This page lists the 14 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.'
