The other, non-official, Twitter account - has more than 300,000 followers. People started circulating the photo and slapping funny text on top of it and then Bryan started. The rest, as they say, is Internet history. "She was lying in my lap and she looked extremely grumpy so I decided to put it on Reddit," Bryan told ABC News at the festival. RELATED: SXSW in Photos: Lines, Cats and More Craziness from Austin A couple of months later, Bryan decided to put the always-mad cat on Reddit just for fun. Tabatha adopted Tard's mother and on April 4, 2012, Grumpy Cat was born. That's done by her owners - Bryan and Tabatha Bundesen. Of course, the cat, whose real name is Tardar Sauce (or Tard, for short) herself doesn't do the talking or tweeting. She has become the face of a popular Internet meme and has amassed thousands of Twitter followers with snarky and complaint-filled 140-character updates. Grumpy Cat, for those who don't know about the latest Internet fun, is a cat with a bit of a sour face, she always looks, well, grumpy. Why, though? Why would people wait hours just to see one cat? Because she is one of the biggest cats on the Internet. While that furry and very cute feline sat in a small bed in Mashable's dry and warm tent here at SXSW, hundreds of people waited in line in the pouring rain just to get a photo and quick look at her. AUSTIN, Texas - The cat is out of the bag here at SXSW, or out of the Internet.
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