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Buff Cat
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About
Buff Cat refers to a particularly muscular-looking cat that went viral in May of 2018 due to a Twitter account devoted to tweeting pictures, commentary, and fan art of the cat.
Origin
On May 28th, Twitter account @officialbuffcat[1] tweeted images of a particularly muscular-looking cat with the caption 99,000 retweets and 287,000 likes (shown below).
![Majestic Big Boi buff cat @officialbuffcat Follow everyday i think about this buff cat i encountered last year 1:05 AM - 28 May 2018](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/067/2dd.png)
Spread
Their next tweet showing the cat with the caption "thicc" gaining over 750 retweets and 1,500 likes (shown below).
![Thicc buff cat @officialbuffcat Follow thicc](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/061/6bc.png)
They then tweeted a video of the cat which went viral, gaining over 86,000 retweets and 204,000 likes (shown below).
here's a video of the buff cat pic.twitter.com/xTVETgfBoQ
— buff cat (@officialbuffcat) May 28, 2018
The success of the account's first few tweets inspired others to create fan art and photoshops of the cat. One popular photoshop tweeted by @Send_Lwyds gained over 2,200 retweets (shown below, left). The first piece of fan art was tweeted by @prusicc (shown below, right).
![Protein Warehouse](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/068/5c2.jpg)
![Fan Art Buf urfo](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/070/9ea.jpg)
The viral success of the buff cat was covered by The Daily Dot,[2] Buzzfeed,[3] and People.[4]
Various Examples
![Chaos Emeralds](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/072/078.jpg)
![Saiyan](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/073/1e3.jpg)
![Playing Card Buff Cat Creature -Cat All other Cats get +1/+1 When Buff Cat enters the battlefield create 2 1/1 white cat creature tokens with haste, * Buff Cat get +0/+1 until end of turn. 3/4 2018 M CUSTOM CARD MTGCS EN UNKNOWN MTGCARDSMITH.COM](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/074/768.jpg)
![Jurassic Cat](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/075/1d5.jpg)
![Ghostbusters](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/076/824.jpg)
![Inflated Shrek](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/077/b7d.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twitter – @officialbuffcat
[2] Daily Dot – Meet Buff Cat, the super swole kitty winning the internet’s heart
[3] Buzzfeed – The Internet Is Loving This Buff Cat
[4] People – Mysterious Buff Cat's Swole Body Baffles and Enchants Internet, Inspires Amazing Memes
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Top Comments
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Jun 01, 2018 at 02:54PM EDT
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Jun 01, 2018 at 03:11PM EDT