woman yelling at a cat

Woman yelling at a cat is an Internet meme first used in a post by Twitter user @MISSINGEGIRL on May 1, 2019. It juxtaposes two images: on the left, a screen capture of "Malibu Beach Party from Hell", an episode from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, depicting cast member Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing (held back by Kyle Richards); and a picture uploaded to Tumblr in June 2018, depicting a cat from Ottawa, Ontario, Smudge, sitting at a dinner table behind a salad with a seemingly confused expression. Images used The image on the left of the meme image is a screenshot of "Malibu Beach Party From Hell", an episode of the second season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2010–present); the episode depicts a beach party gone awry when housewives Taylor Armstrong and Camille Grammer feud over the latter's gossip regarding Armstrong's former husband Russell, who died of suicide following what she claimed to be an abusive relationship. The still is of the episode's most heated moment, where a tearful Armstrong screams and points at an attendee while being restrained by Kyle Richards; it went viral following its inclusion on a Daily Mail article published a day after the episode's airing. Armstrong went on to work at domestic violence shelters and, in October 2019, said she was now in a more positive marriage. The picture on the right of the meme image is of a cat from Ottawa, Ontario, named Smudge, whom Miranda Stillabower owned since 2015. According to Stillabower, he was very antisocial around humans at home, and disliked not having a chair to sit on when relatives filled up space at the dinner table. At one dinner in 2018, as a guest left his chair that had salad in front of it, the cat quickly took it over and had a seemingly confused expression on his face; as someone who took pictures of her pets and posted them on Tumblr, Stillabower shot a picture of the moment and uploaded it to the site in June 2018. Although Stillabower had no expectations of her Tumblr post going viral, it nonetheless garnered 50,300 notes and reposts within a year, which Business Insiders Paige Leskin suggested was due to the caption's use of internet jargon.