"Happy Birthday Boots!"

This artifact is an unknown Instagram user's post celebrating her cat's birthday.

The submitter provided the following about the artifact’s history:
The owner posted a picture of her with her cat in a birthday hat in celebration of the cat’s 12th birthday.
This festive occasion shows the birthday celebration for her old cat, and the comments and caption help show both age and the community of friends around the cat (those who were there when the cat was born/adopted). The party hat in the image helps to show the occasion, and the hearts all over it show the love that the owner has for the cat. The emojiis in the comments also help show the enthusiasm and love friends of the owner have for the cat, and many directly address the cat instead of the owner in their well-wishes. The owner doesn’t use hashtags on this post, but clearly there is already a good following based off the number of likes and comments on this post.

Unknown

Instagram

Instagram

English

2000-2024

Instagram post

digital

Posted

Caption: “Happy birthday Boots! (5 red balloon emojis) and special thanks to @chattaway95 for documenting it 12 years ago xx love you!! (4 red heart emojis)”

On the left: A square picture showing a black and white cat in a festive birthday hat, in the arms of a smiling girl.
On the right: White space with the account name and profile image up top, a Follow button next to it and the caption and hashtags below followed by the comments section and number of likes and date posted tag.

Comments:
Commenter 1: (two heart eye emojis)
Commenter 2: (six red heart emojis, five crying cat emojis, four boot emojis)
Commenter 3: Festive af! HBD smol angel! (angel emoji)
Commenter 4: (three heart eye cat emojis)
Commenter 5: Omfg (heart eyes emoji) you 2 are 2 cute!
Commenter 6: Um, I was there too! (girl with hand raised emoji) (My mom helped Cocoa birth the kittens) Good times.

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Caitlin H, 11/19/17