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The Bountiful Cat Harvest Meme

This meme is a combination of a photograph and a Tumblr comment screenshot. The top portion shows a black cat with wide, startled eyes being held up by two hands, sitting amidst a large mess of spilled potting soil on a tiled floor; an overturned white plant pot is visible in the background, indicating the cat got into the soil and made a mess. The bottom portion is a screenshot of a Tumblr thread, where user "ineffably-crowley" jokes with a pun: *"Did you just unearth a cat from a pot of soil the harvest is bountiful this year"*. The humor comes from wordplay: framing the cat (who was in the soil pot) as if it were a crop being harvested, replacing a typical plant with a silly, unexpected subject. The cat's shocked expression amplifies the joke, making it look like it was indeed just "dug up" unexpectedly.
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Did you just unearth a cat from a pot of soil the harvest is bountiful this year

Overview

This meme is a combination of a photograph and a Tumblr comment screenshot. The top portion shows a black cat with wide, startled eyes being held up by two hands, sitting amidst a large mess of spilled potting soil on a tiled floor; an overturned white plant pot is visible in the background, indicating the cat got into the soil and made a mess. The bottom portion is a screenshot of a Tumblr thread, where user "ineffably-crowley" jokes with a pun: "Did you just unearth a cat from a pot of soil the harvest is bountiful this year". The humor comes from wordplay: framing the cat (who was in the soil pot) as if it were a crop being harvested, replacing a typical plant with a silly, unexpected subject. The cat's shocked expression amplifies the joke, making it look like it was indeed just "dug up" unexpectedly.

Origin notes

The image originates from Tumblr, as evidenced by the usernames, note count, and source attribution at the bottom left: "zackisontumblr Source: corporation-cats". It was published on August 14th, 2017, and accumulated 690,751 notes on Tumblr. It was later reposted on Bored Panda, as shown by the watermark in the bottom right corner. The original content is a photo of a messy cat shared by a Tumblr user, with the humorous comment added by another user to create the meme.

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