Cat Standing In Front Of Girls Face Ai Art Redraw

2024Redraw challenge / art protest trenddead

Also known as: AI Cat Girl Redraw · Cat Eye Redraw Challenge

"Cat Standing In Front Of Girl's Face" AI Art Redraw is a 2024 art trend where hundreds of artists redrew an AI-generated image of a black cat covering a red-headed girl's eye, turning the exercise into a viral protest against AI-generated artwork. The original image was posted to X by @RogerHaus on July 2, 2024, and the redraw wave that followed became one of the summer's biggest pro-artist rallies on social media.

Overview

The meme centers on a specific piece of AI art: a painting-style image of a red-headed girl with blue eyes wearing a polka-dot shirt, with a black cat positioned so its yellow eye lines up over her left eye. The composition is simple but visually striking, which made it an ideal target for artists looking to prove a point about human creativity versus machine output. Rather than mocking the image, most participants recreated the same pose and framing with their own artistic styles or swapped in beloved fictional characters, turning each redraw into a small statement about the value of hand-made art.

On July 2, 2024, X user @RogerHaus, who regularly posted AI-generated artworks, shared the cat-and-girl image1. The piece picked up massive engagement on its own, pulling in over 146,000 likes and 15,000 reposts within its first week. The comments, however, quickly split between people appreciating the image and artists frustrated that AI work was racking up numbers that human illustrators rarely see. That tension set the stage for the redraw wave.

Origin & Background

Platform
X / Twitter (original AI image and redraw trend)
Key People
@RogerHaus, community artists
Date
2024

On July 2, 2024, X user @RogerHaus, who regularly posted AI-generated artworks, shared the cat-and-girl image1. The piece picked up massive engagement on its own, pulling in over 146,000 likes and 15,000 reposts within its first week. The comments, however, quickly split between people appreciating the image and artists frustrated that AI work was racking up numbers that human illustrators rarely see. That tension set the stage for the redraw wave.

How It Spread

The redraws started within 48 hours. On July 4, 2024, artist @hachimitsx posted their version with the caption "fvck IA" (IA being the Spanish/Portuguese abbreviation for artificial intelligence), collecting over 82,000 likes in a week. The same day, @brunofobia shared a redraw captioned "SUPPORT REAL ARTISTS" with middle-finger emojis, which outperformed the original AI post at over 157,000 likes. By July 5, @Dokinyy's take had crossed 197,000 likes with a similar anti-AI message.

The trend shifted from straight redraws to creative reinterpretations starting around July 6. @guiol_ reimagined the girl as Coraline from the 2009 stop-motion film, and that version blew past everything before it with over 400,000 likes in five days. On July 7, @glouwinn turned the pair into Muriel Bagge and Courage from *Courage the Cowardly Dog*, earning 162,000 likes in four days.

The crossover versions kept escalating. On July 9, @M4rsArt posted a Shrek-and-Puss-in-Boots redraw that hit 118,000 likes in two days. The next day, @mossacannibalis brought the trend to the imageboard-adjacent corner of X with a Cobson and Chudjak version, pulling 50,000 likes in a single day. The range of redraws, from sincere artistic showcases to shitpost-tier edits, showed how the trend had spread across every pocket of art Twitter within a single week.

How to Use This Meme

The format is straightforward: recreate the composition of the original AI image using your own art style. The standard approach involves drawing a girl (or any character) looking at the viewer with a cat (or any second character) positioned to cover one eye. Most participants kept the close-cropped framing and the eye-alignment detail that made the original distinctive.

Common variations include: - Faithful redraws that match the original's color palette and composition, meant to showcase technical skill - Character swaps that replace both subjects with recognizable fictional duos (Coraline, Shrek, Courage the Cowardly Dog, etc.) - Style flexes where the artist uses a radically different medium or aesthetic (watercolor, pixel art, manga-style)

Captions typically include an anti-AI art message, though later entries dropped the protest angle and treated it as a standard art challenge.

Cultural Impact

The redraw trend tapped directly into the ongoing tension between AI art generators and working illustrators. By mid-2024, tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion had become a flashpoint in online art communities, and the @RogerHaus post became a convenient rallying point. The fact that multiple redraws outperformed the original AI image in raw engagement numbers (with @guiol_'s Coraline version nearly tripling the original's likes) gave pro-artist advocates concrete ammunition in the debate.

The trend also demonstrated a pattern that would repeat throughout 2024: artists turning AI-generated content into opportunities to showcase human skill rather than simply arguing against it. Instead of just complaining about AI art, participants proved their point by doing.

Fun Facts

The most-liked redraw (@guiol_'s Coraline version at 400,000+ likes) received nearly three times more engagement than the original AI image that started it all.

Several of the biggest redraws used Spanish and Portuguese anti-AI captions, reflecting how the trend spread heavily through Latin American art communities on X.

The trend burned through its entire lifecycle in roughly ten days, from the original post on July 2 to the last wave of viral redraws around July 10.

@RogerHaus's original post inadvertently became one of the biggest advertisements for human-made art in 2024, the exact opposite of its intent.

Derivatives & Variations

Coraline redraw

by @guiol_: the single biggest version at 400,000+ likes, reframing the subjects as characters from the Laika film

Courage the Cowardly Dog redraw

by @glouwinn: swapped in Muriel and Courage, mixing nostalgia with the protest angle

Shrek and Puss in Boots redraw

by @M4rsArt: a comedic take that paired the ogre with the Shrek franchise's cat character

Cobson and Chudjak redraw

by @mossacannibalis: an imageboard-influenced edit using Soyjak-adjacent characters

Frequently Asked Questions

Cat Standing In Front Of Girls Face Ai Art Redraw

2024Redraw challenge / art protest trenddead

Also known as: AI Cat Girl Redraw · Cat Eye Redraw Challenge

"Cat Standing In Front Of Girl's Face" AI Art Redraw is a 2024 art trend where hundreds of artists redrew an AI-generated image of a black cat covering a red-headed girl's eye, turning the exercise into a viral protest against AI-generated artwork. The original image was posted to X by @RogerHaus on July 2, 2024, and the redraw wave that followed became one of the summer's biggest pro-artist rallies on social media.

Overview

The meme centers on a specific piece of AI art: a painting-style image of a red-headed girl with blue eyes wearing a polka-dot shirt, with a black cat positioned so its yellow eye lines up over her left eye. The composition is simple but visually striking, which made it an ideal target for artists looking to prove a point about human creativity versus machine output. Rather than mocking the image, most participants recreated the same pose and framing with their own artistic styles or swapped in beloved fictional characters, turning each redraw into a small statement about the value of hand-made art.

On July 2, 2024, X user @RogerHaus, who regularly posted AI-generated artworks, shared the cat-and-girl image1. The piece picked up massive engagement on its own, pulling in over 146,000 likes and 15,000 reposts within its first week. The comments, however, quickly split between people appreciating the image and artists frustrated that AI work was racking up numbers that human illustrators rarely see. That tension set the stage for the redraw wave.

Origin & Background

Platform
X / Twitter (original AI image and redraw trend)
Key People
@RogerHaus, community artists
Date
2024

On July 2, 2024, X user @RogerHaus, who regularly posted AI-generated artworks, shared the cat-and-girl image1. The piece picked up massive engagement on its own, pulling in over 146,000 likes and 15,000 reposts within its first week. The comments, however, quickly split between people appreciating the image and artists frustrated that AI work was racking up numbers that human illustrators rarely see. That tension set the stage for the redraw wave.

How It Spread

The redraws started within 48 hours. On July 4, 2024, artist @hachimitsx posted their version with the caption "fvck IA" (IA being the Spanish/Portuguese abbreviation for artificial intelligence), collecting over 82,000 likes in a week. The same day, @brunofobia shared a redraw captioned "SUPPORT REAL ARTISTS" with middle-finger emojis, which outperformed the original AI post at over 157,000 likes. By July 5, @Dokinyy's take had crossed 197,000 likes with a similar anti-AI message.

The trend shifted from straight redraws to creative reinterpretations starting around July 6. @guiol_ reimagined the girl as Coraline from the 2009 stop-motion film, and that version blew past everything before it with over 400,000 likes in five days. On July 7, @glouwinn turned the pair into Muriel Bagge and Courage from *Courage the Cowardly Dog*, earning 162,000 likes in four days.

The crossover versions kept escalating. On July 9, @M4rsArt posted a Shrek-and-Puss-in-Boots redraw that hit 118,000 likes in two days. The next day, @mossacannibalis brought the trend to the imageboard-adjacent corner of X with a Cobson and Chudjak version, pulling 50,000 likes in a single day. The range of redraws, from sincere artistic showcases to shitpost-tier edits, showed how the trend had spread across every pocket of art Twitter within a single week.

How to Use This Meme

The format is straightforward: recreate the composition of the original AI image using your own art style. The standard approach involves drawing a girl (or any character) looking at the viewer with a cat (or any second character) positioned to cover one eye. Most participants kept the close-cropped framing and the eye-alignment detail that made the original distinctive.

Common variations include: - Faithful redraws that match the original's color palette and composition, meant to showcase technical skill - Character swaps that replace both subjects with recognizable fictional duos (Coraline, Shrek, Courage the Cowardly Dog, etc.) - Style flexes where the artist uses a radically different medium or aesthetic (watercolor, pixel art, manga-style)

Captions typically include an anti-AI art message, though later entries dropped the protest angle and treated it as a standard art challenge.

Cultural Impact

The redraw trend tapped directly into the ongoing tension between AI art generators and working illustrators. By mid-2024, tools like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion had become a flashpoint in online art communities, and the @RogerHaus post became a convenient rallying point. The fact that multiple redraws outperformed the original AI image in raw engagement numbers (with @guiol_'s Coraline version nearly tripling the original's likes) gave pro-artist advocates concrete ammunition in the debate.

The trend also demonstrated a pattern that would repeat throughout 2024: artists turning AI-generated content into opportunities to showcase human skill rather than simply arguing against it. Instead of just complaining about AI art, participants proved their point by doing.

Fun Facts

The most-liked redraw (@guiol_'s Coraline version at 400,000+ likes) received nearly three times more engagement than the original AI image that started it all.

Several of the biggest redraws used Spanish and Portuguese anti-AI captions, reflecting how the trend spread heavily through Latin American art communities on X.

The trend burned through its entire lifecycle in roughly ten days, from the original post on July 2 to the last wave of viral redraws around July 10.

@RogerHaus's original post inadvertently became one of the biggest advertisements for human-made art in 2024, the exact opposite of its intent.

Derivatives & Variations

Coraline redraw

by @guiol_: the single biggest version at 400,000+ likes, reframing the subjects as characters from the Laika film

Courage the Cowardly Dog redraw

by @glouwinn: swapped in Muriel and Courage, mixing nostalgia with the protest angle

Shrek and Puss in Boots redraw

by @M4rsArt: a comedic take that paired the ogre with the Shrek franchise's cat character

Cobson and Chudjak redraw

by @mossacannibalis: an imageboard-influenced edit using Soyjak-adjacent characters

Frequently Asked Questions