Since then, her face has launched a thousand coffee mugs and swimsuits and beverage napkins and “Nope Book” notebooks, among too many other products to name. Within a year, merchandise bearing her scornful likeness appeared in Hot Topic and Urban Outfitters. Although Tardar Sauce left this cruel world in May, Grumpy Cat died much earlier.Īccording to the meme-cataloging website Know Your Meme, Grumpy Cat’s first T-shirt line was available just over a week after her Reddit debut. Far from her humble beginnings as a simple Reddit meme, Grumpy Cat became completely commoditized. What began as a simple cat photo morphed into a sprawling business that sold an endless array of useless online products. Tardar Sauce was a true overnight sensation. The photo quickly went viral, gaining tens of thousands of upvotes in 24 hours. Tardar Sauce was born on April 4, 2012, in Morristown, Arizona. She was born unto the internet just five months later, when a photo of her pouting face, scowling just off-camera, appeared on Reddit. Grumpy Cat, whose real name was “Tardar Sauce,” died peacefully at home after contracting a urinary tract infection, her family announced on Instagram in May. The cat curmudgeon captivated millions of internet users with her iconic frown, which was likely due to feline dwarfism. This was the year the internet lost its cat. They noted the appearance of the expression by analyzing video of study subjects in conversation frame-by-frame and tagging their individual facial muscle movements while expressing negativity.Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. (It also sounds a lot like Donald Trump’s resting face. We’re hardwired to read her face as the embodiment of negativity. Essentially, the nope face is Grumpy Cat, which is why Grumpy Cat appears so surly to human beings. These are signified by furrowed brows, a raised chin, and lips pressed together, respectively.

In a paper published in the journal Cognition, the researchers explain that the nope face itself is made up of visual markers for three separate emotions: anger, disgust, and contempt-three emotions we feel in varying degrees when we nope, depending on the situation.

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