Miette

About

Miette is the name of the cat owned by poet Patricia Lockwood. One of Lockwood's tweets about Miette, written in Miette's imagined voice, became a copypasta online, reading, "you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!"

Origin

On March 19th, 2019, Patricia Lockwood tweeted^[1] a scenario in which she has to move her cat, Miette, with her foot, and Miette reacts in a scandalized manner. The tweet reads:

me, lightly touching miette with the side of my foot: miette move out of the way please so I don’t trip on you
miette, her eyes enormous: you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

Her tweet gained over 26,000 retweets and 60,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

The post began growing popular as a copypasta on Tumblr in the ensuing years. For example, on April 13th, 2020, Redditor Early-Corgi0 posted a screenshot from Tumblr to /r/tumblr^[2] referencing Lockwood's post, gaining over 2,200 points (shown below, left). The post also inspired Tumblr users to write about their own cats in the style of Miette. For example, on February 15th, 2020, Tumblr user froody^[3] posted a text post in which they removed a cat from their laptop and the cat responds, "Father is…evil? Father is unyielding? Father is incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household." The post gained over 640,000 notes, as users compared it to the "Miette" post (shown below, right).

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