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Cats Come In Both Liquid And Solid Form

The image displays two adjacent cat show cages placed on a table against a deep blue curtain backdrop. The left cage, marked with the number 107, contains a fluffy white cat that is completely splayed flat across the cage floor, conforming to the shape of the cage base as if it were a liquid. The right cage, marked 115, holds a slender Abyssinian cat sitting fully upright, rigid and well-defined in a clearly solid form. Below the photograph is a Tumblr post from user haus-of-ill-repute with the caption 'Cats come in both liquid and solid form.' The post has 363,771 notes, is dated August 14th, 2017, and features a BoredPanda.com watermark in the corner. The joke leans into the widely popular internet meme that cats qualify as a liquid because they can adjust their shape to fit any container they occupy, using the two contrasting cats as a literal humorous illustration of this concept.
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Cats come in both liquid and solid form.

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Cats come in both liquid and solid form.

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The image displays two adjacent cat show cages placed on a table against a deep blue curtain backdrop. The left cage, marked with the number 107, contains a fluffy white cat that is completely splayed flat across the cage floor, conforming to the shape of the cage base as if it were a liquid. The right cage, marked 115, holds a slender Abyssinian cat sitting fully upright, rigid and well-defined in a clearly solid form. Below the photograph is a Tumblr post from user haus-of-ill-repute with the caption 'Cats come in both liquid and solid form.' The post has 363,771 notes, is dated August 14th, 2017, and features a BoredPanda.com watermark in the corner. The joke leans into the widely popular internet meme that cats qualify as a liquid because they can adjust their shape to fit any container they occupy, using the two contrasting cats as a literal humorous illustration of this concept.

Origin notes

The original meme was first posted on Tumblr by user haus-of-ill-repute on August 14, 2017, where it accumulated over 360,000 notes and went viral. It was later republished on the entertainment site Bored Panda, and then subsequently shared on X (formerly Twitter) by the account @WholesomeMeme as part of their feed of lighthearted, wholesome animal content. The underlying photograph was taken at a real in-person cat show event.

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