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Americans Driving 10+ Hours Still In Texas Cat Meme

This humorous meme features text at the top reading 'Americans driving 10+ hours just to still be in Texas', paired with a photo of a light brown tabby cat positioned in the driver's seat of a car with its paws resting on the steering wheel, looking weary and exhausted from a long drive. The meme jokes about the extremely large geographic size of the U.S. state of Texas, where it is common to drive for many hours without exiting the state's borders.
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Americans driving 10+ hours just to still be in Texas

Overview

This humorous meme features text at the top reading 'Americans driving 10+ hours just to still be in Texas', paired with a photo of a light brown tabby cat positioned in the driver's seat of a car with its paws resting on the steering wheel, looking weary and exhausted from a long drive. The meme jokes about the extremely large geographic size of the U.S. state of Texas, where it is common to drive for many hours without exiting the state's borders.

Origin notes

This meme is sourced from the X.com (formerly Twitter) account meme.jpg, distributed via RSS feed. It uses the widely popular 'driving cat' reaction meme template, edited with the humorous Texas travel caption using the Kapwing image editing tool, as evidenced by the Kapwing watermark in the bottom right corner of the image. It is part of a larger set of memes poking fun at the size of Texas that circulate widely across English-speaking social media platforms.

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