Side-by-side meme of a tuxedo cat and an orange heterochromatic cat with the captions 'My cat with homophobia in her eyes' and 'beautiful cat with homophobia'.

Beautiful Cat With Homophobia

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Published October 23, 2026

An image macro series that sets photos of heterochromia-eyed cats alongside the caption "homophobia in its eyes," turning a mix-up of "heterochromia" and "homophobia" into a love-struck tag. A 2021 Reddit joke on r/aww resurfaced in June 2024 when an X user applied the line to a stray cat with mismatched eyes, after which posters started attaching the caption to anime characters and HBO's Aemond Targaryen.

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Overview

Posts in the series place a heart emoji next to a close-up photo of an animal, or sometimes a person, with two different-colored eyes, written as if the poster has confused "heterochromia" with "homophobia"12. The joke works because the misreading sounds sincere, so a cat with blue-and-yellow eyes is announced to have "homophobia in its eyes ♥" the way someone might call a pet star-eyed. Early posts stuck to real cats found outside or in shelters, with the line used as a love-struck compliment.

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By mid-2024, the format moved past real animals and into fictional characters whose designs include mismatched eyes, including anime figures, K-pop idols wearing heterochromia-styled contacts, and HBO's one-eyed Targaryen prince45. Beautiful Cat With Homophobia keeps the exact phrasing from the Reddit original, including the trailing heart, which is part of what makes the misread sound earnest rather than hostile.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (r/aww) / X (viral spread)
Key People
@NotWurrmm
Date
2021

On April 3, 2021, Reddit user @NotWurrmm posted a photo of a white cat with one blue eye and one yellow eye to r/aww under the title "A cat with homophobia in its eyes ♥"1. The post sat as a small inside joke for over two years before anyone copied the phrasing. In early June 2024, X user @lovesickdoe revived the exact wording to describe a stray cat they had seen outside, which had one orange eye and one blue eye2. That version collected over 10.8 million views and more than 500,000 likes within 20 days4.

How It Spread

Within days of @lovesickdoe's viral post, other X users copied the format. On June 6, 2024, @rodd__serling posted a short clip of two white ragdoll cats, each with a green right eye and a blue left eye, following an off-camera toy; the video earned roughly 230 likes in three weeks3. By late June, the caption left the cat world entirely.

On June 21, 2024, X user @alysgoth applied the line to a close-up still of Aemond Targaryen from HBO's House of the Dragon, whose sapphire prosthetic replaces one eye and gives him two mismatched eyes5. After the Targaryen version, fans attached the phrasing to anime characters and K-pop idols whose looks involved heterochromia or two-tone contacts4.

Timeline

2021-04-03

Reddit user @NotWurrmm posts a white cat with blue and yellow eyes to r/aww under the title "A cat with homophobia in its eyes ♥".

2024-06

X user @lovesickdoe reuses the exact caption on a stray orange-and-blue-eyed cat, drawing over 10.8 million views and 500,000 likes within 20 days.

2024-06-06

X user @rodd__serling posts a clip of two heterochromia-eyed ragdoll cats tracking an off-camera toy with the same caption.

2024-06-21

X user @alysgoth applies the caption to Aemond Targaryen from House of the Dragon, moving the format off real cats.

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How to Use This Meme

Posters typically combine a photo of someone or something with two different-colored eyes with the caption "a [subject] with homophobia in its eyes ♥," written as if the author mistook "heterochromia" for "homophobia." Common convention includes the heart emoji from the Reddit original and reads the line as a sincere compliment, so the format works best when the subject actually has mismatched eyes, whether a real cat, an anime character or a House of the Dragon still5.

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