Layer #2

Matthew Bofenkamp

Once I saw the original Chairman Meow, the thought of grumpy cat represented as world leaders with bad reputations spoke to me on a personal level. For my recreation, my first thought went to Josef Stalin, though I couldn't think of a good pun about cats for the text. My thoughts then went to Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda, which could be Kitty Amin, but I thought he may not be well known enough for people to get the joke, and there weren't many good symbols about him that I could find, as the star represented Mao. Finally, I went to Hitler, whom I originally planned to parody as Catdolf Hitler, though this seemed clunky. Then I remembered memes in the past of Adolf Kitler, which I used.

In creating my meme, I made sure to use as many elements of the original Chairman Meow as possible, including the background, the specific shade of red of the star, the grumpy cat outline, the font of the text, the paw print, and the relative size and placement of everything, making the memes feel like they had continuity. The only difference was the shape of the symbol behind grumpy cat and the text.