Popcat
Oatmeal the cat's open-mouth pop — the clicker / GIF meme that became a national spam sport and Twitch emote energy.
Two frames of cat Oatmeal — mouth closed vs wide open — used as a popping GIF, clicker site craze, and spam reaction. Pure timing comedy.
History
Built from photos of cat Oatmeal; Pop Cat / Popcat videos and the popcat.click phenomenon spread in 2020–2021 (Know Your Meme).
Cultural scores
Editorial estimates of cultural weight — Current Popularity tracks how much people are posting about this now, not historical fame.
Current Popularity = how actively people are posting about this today. Influence = lasting footprint. Cringe = online reception. Brainrot = absurdist energy. Scores last reviewed 2026-07-25. How scoring works
Timeline
2020
Pop Cat GIFs and videos circulate widely
2021
popcat.click national click wars go viral
Later
Persists as a Twitch/Discord pop reaction
Examples
- “Spamming Popcat GIFs in chat”
- “Country rivalries on popcat.click”
- “Open-mouth cat edits timed to beats”
Media
Popcat — Know Your Meme
Origin and spread documentation.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pop-cat
Related entries
Culturally linked — not random recommendations.
Longcat
MemeThe impossibly long white cat of mid-2000s imageboards — Photoshop mythology and 'Longcat is long.'
Ceiling Cat
MemeThe cat peeking through a ceiling hole — imageboard god of surveillance jokes and LOLcat theology.
Cheems
MemeBalltze the Shiba — Doge's soft-spoken cousin from dogelore who says 'cheemsburbger' and lives for ironic wholesome chaos.
Grumpy Cat
MemeTardar Sauce — the frowning cat whose permanent scowl became one of the defining animal memes and merchandising empires of the 2010s.
![Nyan Cat! [Official] — NyanCat channel thumbnail (2011)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2yJgwwDcgV8/hqdefault.jpg)
Nyan Cat
MemeA pixelated cat with a Pop-Tart body flying through space leaving a rainbow trail — pure early-internet whimsy.
References
Sources behind this entry. Prefer primary reporting and established culture archives over rumor.
- Popcat — Know Your Meme
knowyourmeme.com