Celebrity Death: Tartar Sauce, aka "Grumpy Cat", 7

[Acadmus]

Grumpy Cat, Whose Frown Made the Internet Smile, Dies After Infection

EDIT: can a mod correct the name? It's "Tardar" not Tartar...apparently owner didn't know how to spell.

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[beowulf]

Was coming to post this. Poor cat so young, the best of them die young.

 

[Pilky01]

Internet memes like Grumpy Cat feel like they have been around forever. Surprised to find out it was only 7 years old.

 

[Osprey]

What a strange age we live in when stars of internet memes receive public eulogies. Imagine living your life knowing that, regardless of all of the things that you accomplish in life, what you'll be mourned and remembered for after you die is being the original "fist pump baby."

 

[ORRFForever]

No!!!

He was oddly cute, funny (at least his(?) owners were clever) and worth his weight in gold. The owners not only lost a beloved pet, they also lost the goose that laid the golden egg.

(* Hope that doesn't sound mean because I don't want it to. *)

 

[Acadmus]

What a strange age we live in when stars of internet memes receive public eulogies. Imagine living your life knowing that, regardless of all of the things that you accomplish in life, what you'll be mourned and remembered for after you die is being the original "fist pump baby."

Any more odd than being known as "that guy that painted soup cans" or "that guy who played a ukelele while singing "Tiptoe in the Tulips" with a ridiculously high falsetto and bizarre vibrato?" All social media has allowed for is these things to be more widespread and common. Just as TV did, and radio and motion pictures did before it. There are people whose names are remembered going back hundreds and hundreds of years as being "that person who did this". Neither times nor people have changed, you see...our natural curiosity and thirst for knowledge causes us to take an interest when someone or something known for whatever reason experiences a noteworthy event, like death.

 

[Osprey]

Any more odd than being known as "that guy that painted soup cans" or "that guy who played a ukelele while singing "Tiptoe in the Tulips" with a ridiculously high falsetto and bizarre vibrato?" All social media has allowed for is these things to be more widespread and common. Just as TV did, and radio and motion pictures did before it. There are people whose names are remembered going back hundreds and hundreds of years as being "that person who did this". Neither times nor people have changed, you see...our natural curiosity and thirst for knowledge causes us to take an interest when someone or something known for whatever reason experiences a noteworthy event, like death.

Why so serious? Don't be so...

 

[Acadmus]

After a sufficient period of mourning, we need a GC meme that says "Tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life., so it just figures I died today."

 

[TNT87]

 

[John Price]

rip

 

[Xelebes]

May the afterlife be less irritating.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Good.

Spoiler

F

 

[kook10]

sic transit gloria mundi. rip

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]