I’ll admit my title is a little clickbait-y. There is more fascinating stuff here besides the suffragette part, and I guess the lure of sending cat pictures has been with people for much longer than I thought!
That’s cool. I often hear people talk like “memes” are a new thing, but nope, not really.
very interesting and fun.
Fascinating article but not enough pictures of suffragette kitties. 4/5.
Really enjoyed the handwringing about whether postcards signaled the doom of good writing. We really are great at yelling dooooomed! about new things.
Memes are as old as memekind itself.
There’s nothing new under the sun.
The OGs of the genre was Harry Wittier Frees in the photography studio and Louis Wain in the printshop. Louis famously descended into schizophrenia (or maybe just autism plus dementia), while Frees indulged in animal cruelty. Although Frees did let his kitties jump on the Suffragette bandwagon too:
On the other side of the sun, however, is an exact duplicate of Earth:
Is that technically “under the sun”? And it isn’t new, it’s been there forever. Only new to us.
Exact duplicate, except they allow cats the vote.
I always get a kick out of the factoid that H.M.S. Pinafore was the Seinfeld or Simpsons of its day. (For a good while, you couldn’t even say the word “never” without some wag answering 
“What, never?”)
Well, hardly ever.
I’m sorry, this thread always make me go “wat bat thank you cat/suffragette kitty!”
Though it is good to see turn of the century cats were just as cute as modern cats.
“Memetics is a theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the meme as the unit of culture.”
Cause people think memes need video and involve hashtags. The Norman Arch is a meme as well as Doric columns.