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Cat Chooses Pentagram Over Circle/Square Meme

This is a 3-panel sequential meme that plays on the popular stereotype that cats are drawn to sitting inside enclosed shapes. 1. **Panel 1**: The top header text reads "So I heard that cats like to sit in circles...", showing a black cat lying uninterested on a bed with striped bedding, next to a drawn circle on a wooden floor. The bottom caption says "Circle, not interested." 2. **Panel 2**: A square is drawn on the floor; the cat extends a paw toward it, with the caption "Square, mildly interested." 3. **Panel 3**: A pentagram (a 5-pointed star shape often associated with occult summoning rituals) is drawn on the floor, and the cat is sitting directly in its center. The caption reads "I have no questions at this point." The humor comes from subverting the expected cat behavior: instead of preferring basic shapes, the cat is immediately drawn to a shape linked to supernatural/occult themes, creating an absurd, whimsical joke that implies the cat has "occult" tendencies.
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So I heard that cats like to sit in circles...
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Circle, not interested.
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Square, mildly interested.
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I have no questions at this point.

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A cat ignores basic circle and square shapes, but immediately sits in a pentagram, playing on occult stereotypes for humor.

Overview

This is a 3-panel sequential meme that plays on the popular stereotype that cats are drawn to sitting inside enclosed shapes.

  1. Panel 1: The top header text reads "So I heard that cats like to sit in circles...", showing a black cat lying uninterested on a bed with striped bedding, next to a drawn circle on a wooden floor. The bottom caption says "Circle, not interested."
  2. Panel 2: A square is drawn on the floor; the cat extends a paw toward it, with the caption "Square, mildly interested."
  3. Panel 3: A pentagram (a 5-pointed star shape often associated with occult summoning rituals) is drawn on the floor, and the cat is sitting directly in its center. The caption reads "I have no questions at this point."

The humor comes from subverting the expected cat behavior: instead of preferring basic shapes, the cat is immediately drawn to a shape linked to supernatural/occult themes, creating an absurd, whimsical joke that implies the cat has "occult" tendencies.

Origin notes

This meme is a user-created animal reaction meme, likely originating on mainstream social media platforms like Reddit (subreddits such as r/cats or r/memes) or Twitter/X in the 2010s-2020s. It fits into the trend of testing cat responses to drawn shapes, a popular viral pet content format. The meme was created by adding text overlays to sequential photos of a real black cat, using a simple photo editing tool. There are no visible watermarks or author credits, so it is a widely shared anonymous user creation.

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