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A split-screen style meme showing blind Turkish street musician Bilal Göregen playing a tambourine on a park bench beside the animated Vibing Cat, a white cat rhythmically bobbing its head to the beat of Ievan Polkka.

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What is the Cat Vibing To Ievan Polkka meme?

Cat Vibing To Ievan Polkka is a video meme pairing Turkish street musician Bilal Göregen playing the Finnish folk song "Ievan Polkka" on a tambourine with the head-bobbing Vibing Cat animation synced to the beat. It expresses pure, unbothered enjoyment of music - or zoning out to a song stuck in your head.

Origin & History

The source audio comes from a June 2019 YouTube video of Bilal Göregen, a blind Turkish street musician, performing "Ievan Polkka" - a Finnish folk song that had already been an internet earworm since the 2006 Loituma Girl ("Leek Spin") animation. In mid-October 2020, Twitter users began editing the Vibing Cat - an animated white cat bobbing its head, originally popularized as the CatJAM Twitch emote - next to Göregen on his bench.

The edit exploded across Reddit's r/dankmemes and beyond, with Bilal Göregen himself embracing the meme and uploading an official version to his YouTube channel on November 1, 2020. The format turned into object-labeling memes and reaction videos where the cat "vibes" to anything from homework stress to 3 a.m. thoughts.

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Reacting to a song you cannot get out of your head
Describing your brain at 3 a.m. when you should be sleeping
Pairing two things that unexpectedly go well together
Wholesome posts about enjoying simple moments
Meme remixes where the cat vibes to a different song or situation

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