Tardar Sauce .. the Grumpy Cat
Tardar Sauce or “Grumpy Cat” as we all know it is a snowshoe cat that has an online fame after her annoyed facial expressions pictures posted to Reddit in the end of 2012, and became very famous on Reddit and 9GAG.
Origin
Grumpy Cat was born in Morristown, Arizona on April 4th, 2012 to her owner Tabatha Bundesen. The original photos of Grumpy Cat were posted to the R/pics subreddit by Bundesen’s brother Bryan on September 23rd, 2012. the image below is the original picture taken.
FIRST DAY ONLINE
The Reddit post was instantly met with photoshopped parodies, reaching the front page with more than 25,300 up votes in the first 24 hours. Meanwhile, the Imgur page gained nearly 1,030,000 views in the first 48 hours. The same day, three video clips of the cat playing indoors were uploaded to YouTube by Bundesen the same day.
But the name grumpy Cat has been associated with pictures of scornful looking cats prior to this instance, mainly through the LOLcat image macro series X is not amused and Serious Cat.
Within 48 hours of the original post, more than 300 posts associated with the keyword “Grumpy Cat” were submitted to Reddit.
One of the most popular meme on the Grumpy Cat is the one with ( i had fun once… it was awful) with more than 22000 share on quickmeme.com
In early 2013, more than 30 artists in residence at the Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment art center in Huntsville, Alabama launched The Grumpy Cat Art Project, a multimedia art exhibition that consists of various artworks inspired by Tardar Sauce, including sculptures, paintings, stained glass, chain-mail art, papercraft and soap carvings. According to one of the event organizers Dustin Timbrook, the exhibition aims to show the world that “art can elevate even the sillest subject”.
TARDAR and HOLLYWOOD
On May 30th, 2013, Hollywood news site Deadline reported that Broken Road Productions has obtained the rights to make a family comedy film based on Grumpy Cat’s persona. According to the report, the film will be produced by Todd Garner, who has previously worked on dozens of films like XXX, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Jack and Jill. Although little is known about the plot-line, production crew or cast, Garner told Deadline that Tardar Sauce will be given a speaking role, in similar vein to Hollywood’s live action adaptations of American cartoon series Garfield.
