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This cat is responsible for earth's diurnal cycle

This is an absurdist single-panel meme set against a starry outer space background dotted with distant stars and glowing celestial bodies. A digitally enlarged black cat with wide, shiny, slightly dazed-looking eyes looms large behind a depiction of the planet Earth in the lower foreground. Overlaid bold white text across the center of the image jokes that scientists have confirmed this giant cosmic cat is the actual cause of the Earth's rotation, leaning into the popular silly meme trope of attributing real natural phenomena to ridiculous, fictional causes for comedic effect.
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CONFIRMED: Scientists confirmed this is how the earth spins

Overview

This is an absurdist single-panel meme set against a starry outer space background dotted with distant stars and glowing celestial bodies. A digitally enlarged black cat with wide, shiny, slightly dazed-looking eyes looms large behind a depiction of the planet Earth in the lower foreground. Overlaid bold white text across the center of the image jokes that scientists have confirmed this giant cosmic cat is the actual cause of the Earth's rotation, leaning into the popular silly meme trope of attributing real natural phenomena to ridiculous, fictional causes for comedic effect.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit Meme community. It follows a common format of viral absurdist cat memes that edit photos of cats into surreal or exaggerated contexts paired with fake 'official scientific confirmation' captions to create lighthearted, humorous content that is widely shared on Reddit's meme-focused subreddits and other social media platforms.

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