People Are Obsessed With This Really Big Cow Called Knickers

Social media is taken with a large steer in Australia.

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Forget being too tired to meme. Forget "grape surgery." Forget it all. The internet has a new obsession: a really big cow named Knickers. 

The Australian steer really is astoundingly large, towering over his fellow bovines at a height of 76 inches. (That's about 6 feet, 4 inches for the math-impaired.) Knickers tips the scale at 3,086 pounds. He's twice as heavy as the average cow of his breed and a solid 18 inches taller. According to ABC News, it's that size that saved him. 

LOOK how big this cow is pic.twitter.com/aybcxDchoD

— ma (@madisonspringg) November 27, 2018

"He was too big to go into the export plant's chain," farmer Geoff Pearson said. "We have a high turnover of cattle and he was lucky enough to stay behind."

One look at him and Twitter was in love. How could you not be when confronted with -- to quote a meme that feels older than Knickers 7 years -- the size of this lad? 

Check out a few of our favorite reactions to Knickers below:   

big cow https://t.co/DVqcsqqvbg

— Ryan (@ryangrof) November 27, 2018

Announcing that I will step down as leader of the "There Will Never Be a Big Large Cow" Party, effective immediately. This is due to recent developments that you may be aware of

— Naaman Zhou (@naamanzhou) November 27, 2018

Christ. We've been here all day just chilling and sharing pictures of the big cow and then the Americans wake up and decide it needs to be on the cover of the New York Times. Would yis relax

— ceebels (@ceebels) November 27, 2018

Let 👏me👏ride👏the👏big👏cow👏

— Evan (@evan7257) November 27, 2018

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