About
Big Floppa or simply Floppa refers to a series of ironic memes based on photographs of a caracal named Gregory, and sometimes photographs of other medium-sized cats. Originally circulated among ironic Instagram meme accounts starting in late December 2019, the meme gained more widespread popularity online starting in May 2020.

Origin
On December 23rd, 2019, Instagram user prozhony posted a photograph of his pet caracal named Gregory (Гоша) and another cat lying on a window sill. The image received over 16,600 views in six months (largely due to its meme popularity).

In late December 2019, a collective of Instagram ironic meme accounts, including users big_sahnr and dogie.official started posting memes based on the image (posts no longer available), initially referring to the caracal as "sahnr" and "big sahnr" (coined by Instagram user pantothepizza). In late January 2020, now-inactive Instagram user young.taxi coined the name "Floppa" or "Big Floppa," posting memes featuring the caracal, with fellow accounts adopting the name.

On February 14th, 2020, Instagram[2] user tfosing (previously esoteric.irony) posted a demotivational poster based on the photograph captioned "FLOP Exclusive" (shown below, left), which is the earliest currently available meme based on the image of the caracal. The post received over 120 likes in four months and was reposted and modified by other ironic accounts on the same day, including posts by pantothepizza and floppa.official.