I posted a picture of my cat who was cooling off on a glass table on a hot summer day, and someone turned him into a meme called Existential Crisis Cat. Online, I was surprised to get some negative comments, such as one person saying I wasn’t taking care of my cat as he looked depressed. Offline, I got a lot of text messages for a couple months from people I know, saying “hey I saw your cat on such-and-such website!”

In the end, his 2 minutes of fame faded out, and its a fun story to tell, about the time our cat was a meme.