Grumpy Cat, the face of thousands of internet memes, has died.
Grumpy's rise to fame began when the brother of her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, posted a picture to Reddit in 2012. It was later remixed and turned into thousands of memes on social media sites, with captions such as:"I HAD FUN ONCE... IT WAS AWFUL."
The cat's unusual appearance was not in fact due to her temperament but an unusual combination of an underbite and feline dwarfism, a form of genetic mutation.Such was Grumpy Cat's fame that her owners began a full-time publicity operation to fulfill demand for personal appearances.Grumpy Cat attends a book event in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in 2013.The official Grumpy Cat shop lists 883 items for sale, including books, T-shirts, calendars and temporary tattoos.
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