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Your birthday arrives and the only person who remembers is a calendar notification, sent at 7am, which you read in bed with the expression of someone being told their warranty has expired.

Someone has put candles on a cake and is now singing at you across a table. You hold perfectly still and wait for it to end. The song has a second verse nobody warned you about.

A colleague asks if you're doing anything nice. You say "just a quiet one". It is the quietest one you have ever had, and you did not choose it, the quiet chose you.

The group chat sends a flurry of "happy birthday!!" messages, then a pun, then a gif of a dancing banana. You reply "thanks all" to forty people and feel exactly one year older.

Why it caught on: the picture shows a Scottish Fold cat with folded ears and a sorrowful face, sitting at a table in a little striped top behind a cake with lit candles. Nobody needs to know the cat's name or where the photo came from: it looks like a creature at its own party and not enjoying it. People captioned it with birthday greetings, mostly cat puns like "purrthday" and "are you kitten me", and it spread because it suits every birthday message, sincere or sarcastic, and the cat's face makes the wish sound slightly like a threat.

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