| Big Floppa | |
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| File:Big Floppa.jpg | |
| Vital statistics | |
| Gender | {{{gender}}} |
| French | Grosse Disquette |
| Spanish | flop grande |
| German | große Floppa |
| Japanese | ビッグフロッパ |
| Italian | Grande Floppa |
| Korean | {{{korean}}} |
| Arabic | {{{arabic}}} |
| Chinese | 大弗洛帕 |
| Species | {{{species}}} |
| Date Created | {{{datecreated}}} |
| Origin | {{{origin}}} |
| Family | Andrey Bondarev Elena Bondareva Prozhony (Previous Owner) |
| Friends | Justin |
On December 23rd, 2019, Instagram user prozhony posted a photograph of his pet caracal named Gosha (Гоша) and another cat lying on a window. The image received over 16,600 views in six months (driven largely by its meme popularity).
Meme "Big Floppa" originated in reference to the caracal's distinctive large tufted ears.
Gosha was born on December 21, 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine. In April 2018, he was adopted by Andrey Bondarev and Elena Bondareva from Moscow. Andrey and Elena also own a housecat named Justin (Russian: Жора, Zhora), who is 4 years older than Gosha and shares a room with him. Gosha enjoys eating shrimp and mice and is very active around his apartment.
In 2020, Gosha had surgery to remove a tumour from behind his ear, but subsequently recovered.
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many social media websites and services have been banned in Russia, including Instagram, where Gosha's owners typically post. In response to this, a post was made on their instagram page which read "Dear friends, today Instagram will be blocked in Russia, but we remain with you!". Soon after this announcement, they also announced the creation of a YouTube channel and a Telegram channel. Gosha's YouTube channel, called 'Big Floppa Official.
l' hosts livestreams of Gosha with various webcams around Andrey and Elena's house. As of March 2022, Gosha's channel has 17.2k subscribers.
| Big Floppa is apart of a series on Internet Cats | ||
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| Memes | Basement Cat • Big Floppa • Bikecat • Business Cat • Cat Gasp • Cat throwing a brick • Cathulhu • Ceiling Cat • Gravity Cat • Grumpy Cat • Happy cat • Longcat • Maxwell Cat • NEDM • Nyan Cat • Speedycat • Tac Nayn • Thurston Waffles • Zippocat • Runni cats | |