01 / THE IDENTITY
Who is this cat?
Smudge is the white cat at the dinner table in Woman Yelling at a Cat. A June 2018 Tumblr photograph was later paired with a frame of Taylor Armstrong and Kyle Richards from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The two-image format spread in 2019. The WYAC project’s stated Taylor Armstrong connection does not settle the cat photograph’s rights.
THE KYC THESIS
Two unrelated images become a universal argument.
Smudge’s dinner-table expression works because it can answer almost any caption attached to the yelling frame.
Editorial interpretation · Explore The thesis for evidence and limits.
Distinguishing features
A split image: an emotional human reaction and a white cat at a table.
Also filed under
Woman Yelling at Cat · Woman Yelling At A Cat · Smudge · Salad cat · Woman Yelling at a Cat
Still being researched
- File original source posts for both halves of the meme.
- Corroborate current project control and rights beyond the project bio.