Cat Frazier

Catherine Frazier (April 5, 1991 – June 29, 2026) was an American graphic designer and blogger. She is best known for AnimatedText, a blog where she posted original animated text GIFs made on request. Frazier lived in Oakland, California, and worked as a designer for California's Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

Her inspirations included Jeremy Bailey, Paula Scher, and Dominique Falla. She was black and openly queer.

Career Frazier graduated from Pratt Institute in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Critical and Visual Studies. She worked for a variety of companies as a designer, one being California's Pacific Gas and Electric Company.

She began her Tumblr blog, AnimatedText, in fall 2012. Her first GIF to go viral was a spinning, serif font text that read "lol nothing matters". In March 2013, Frank Ocean reblogged her GIF of the text "ur not gucci lol", greatly increasing her follower base. Frazier realized that she was dissatisfied with the principles of graphic design she had learned in her career (e.g. clean, legible, generic), so she embraced the unapologetic tackiness of the old-Internet graphics that she felt created an "empowerment-through-DIY" via their personalization and non-requirement of design expertise.