Loading Cat Meme Template

A cat has a loading symbol over its forehead. Give it the question or distraction that leaves your brain waiting for a response.

The spinner turns a puzzled expression into a computer that has stalled. It represents the pause between hearing something and making sense of it.

A familiar lapse works well: entering a room and forgetting why, checking a phone without checking the time, or losing track of an introduction.

The original photographer and the person who first added the loading symbol are not established. Know Your Meme records versions of the edited picture circulating in July 2017, before a documented upload of an unedited photo in September 2018. [1]

The image spread through Russian-language meme communities in 2017 and found a larger audience on Reddit in December 2019. Those dates describe documented circulation, not a confirmed creation date. [1]

Place the caption in the open area above the cat. The loading symbol and face should stay visible together.

Use one situation that makes the pause recognizable. The caption can stop at the confusing moment; the picture supplies the blank response.

The mental pause

Across the open space above the cat.

• Keep the spinner clear.
• Use a specific lapse or confusing question.
• Put longer captions above the cat.
• Let the image provide the delayed reaction.