BIG FLOPPA - CASE FILE No. 001
BIG FLOPPA - CASE FILE No. 001
SUBJECT IS NOT A CAT
БОЛЬШОЙ ШЛЁПА
Subject was first recorded on a windowsill in Moscow beside a housemate — Justin, a Maine Coon, one of the largest domestic breeds there is. Placed in frame for scale. Subject dwarfed him anyway. No further explanation has ever been offered by anyone.
All recovered material depicting the subject. Select an exhibit to enlarge. Use ← → to move through the file.
All images are community-created. Original photographs © @prozhony.
Eight external records. Every one of them predates any coin by years. This is not a small meme.
In February 2021 the subject was rebuilt from roughly four hundred triangles in Blender and posted. The crop took 52,700 likes in four days. Reduced to almost nothing, subject remains unmistakably himself.
The original photograph works because there is a normal cat next to him. Every Floppa meme is, structurally, a scale reference. Enter your own height to complete the exhibit.
All three shown at full upright height. On all fours the house cat stands 25 cm at the shoulder and the subject stands 40–50 cm — but by mass he is four times the cat, which is the figure the original photograph was making. Head-body lengths and weights from the Caracal record.
Impact. White fill. Black outline. The only correct way. Pick an exhibit or upload your own.
Every entry sourced to Know Your Meme. Where material has been lost, the report records that it has been lost rather than inventing it.
prozhony posts Gosha on a windowsill beside Justin, the household Maine Coon. The image gathers 16,600 views, almost all of it retroactive. source ↗
Ironic Instagram accounts begin editing the photograph. Material lost — posts deleted. This office cannot recover them.
young.taxi coins it. No vote was held. It simply held. source ↗
“FLOP Exclusive” — the oldest surviving item of evidence in this file. source ↗
“HOW THE F—K IS IT SO SOFT”. 38,100 views in three months. source ↗
Subject leaves Instagram for Twitter, then r/aww. Spread can no longer be tracked. source ↗
r/bigfloppa founded. Nineteen days later Know Your Meme opens a file of its own. source ↗
Russian-language adoption as Большой Шлёпа. A beverage is placed beside the subject; the subject names it with an added -er. Fanta becomes Fanter. Pepsi becomes Pepser. Vodka becomes Vodker. Cause undetermined. source ↗
Rebuilt from ~400 triangles. 52,700 likes in four days, then 17,000 upvotes on r/blursedimages. source ↗
Subject has not been informed and would not care. Subject remains large.
He is a caracal named Gosha. He lives in Moscow with two ordinary cats for roommates and no idea that any of this happened. He sat on a windowsill in December 2019 and was, undeniably, LARGE.
CASE REMAINS OPEN