Sour Cream Baby Cat
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ALL HAIL SOUR CREAM BABY
Overview
This meme is a two-panel screenshot of a Tumblr thread showing a real cat that got sour cream all over its face after sticking its entire head into a container of sour cream. The left panel shows the cat's head fully inside the red sour cream tub, while the right panel shows the cat looking up at the camera with wide, shocked eyes and sour cream streaked across its forehead. The thread's comments joke about the messy cat, first calling it 'Sour cream baby' then leaning into the joke by declaring 'ALL HAIL SOUR CREAM BABY', treating the messy kitten like a revered absurd deity.
Origin notes
This meme originated as a user thread on Tumblr, and was later reposted to X.com (formerly Twitter) by the account WholesomeMeme, which matches the given source attribution. The original photos are of a real domestic cat that got into human food, and the Tumblr comment thread turned the candid photos into the humorous meme we see here.