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(October 2022)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:White_cat_watching_Wikipedia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/White_cat_watching_Wikipedia.jpg/220px-White_cat_watching_Wikipedia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/White_cat_watching_Wikipedia.jpg/330px-White_cat_watching_Wikipedia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/White_cat_watching_Wikipedia.jpg/440px-White_cat_watching_Wikipedia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Cat viewing the Wikipedia article "<a href="/wiki/Dwarf_planet" title="Dwarf planet">Dwarf planet</a>"</figcaption></figure> Images and videos of <a href="/wiki/Cat" title="Cat">domestic cats</a> make up some of the most viewed content on the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a>. <a href="/wiki/Thought_Catalog" title="Thought Catalog">ThoughtCatalog</a> has described cats as the "unofficial mascot of the Internet".<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> The subject has attracted the attention of various scholars and critics, who have analysed why this subject has reached iconic status. Although it may be considered frivolous, cat-related Internet content contributes to how people interact with media and culture.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> Some argue that there is a depth and complexity to this seemingly simple content, with a suggestion that the <a href="/wiki/Animal-assisted_therapy" title="Animal-assisted therapy">positive psychological effects that pets have on their owners</a> also hold true for cat images viewed online.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> Research has suggested that viewing online cat media is related to positive emotions, and that it even may work as a form of digital therapy or stress relief for some users. Some elements of research also shows that feelings of guilt when postponing tasks can be reduced by viewing cat content.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> Some <a href="/wiki/Individual_cats" class="mw-redirect" title="Individual cats">individual cats</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Grumpy_Cat" title="Grumpy Cat">Grumpy Cat</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lil_Bub" title="Lil Bub">Lil Bub</a>, have achieved popularity online because of their unusual appearances and funny cat videos. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> Humans have a longstanding <a href="/wiki/Human_interaction_with_cats" title="Human interaction with cats">relationship with cats</a>, and the animals have often been a subject of short films, including the early silent movies <a href="/wiki/Boxing_Cats" class="mw-redirect" title="Boxing Cats">Boxing Cats</a> (1894) and <a href="/wiki/The_Sick_Kitten" title="The Sick Kitten">The Sick Kitten</a> (1903).<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Harry Pointer (1822–1889) has been cited as the "progenitor of the shameless cat picture".<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> Cats have been shared via email since the Internet's rise to prominence in the 1990s.<a href="#cite_note-auto-7">[7]</a> The first cat video on <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> was uploaded in 2005 by YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, who posted a video of his cat called "Pajamas and Nick Drake".<a href="#cite_note-auto-7">[7]</a> The following year, "Puppy vs Cat" became the first viral cat video; uploaded by a user called Sanchey (a.k.a. Michael Wienzek);<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> as of 2015<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit">[update]</a> it had over 16 million views on YouTube.<a href="#cite_note-auto-7">[7]</a> In a <a href="/wiki/Mashable" title="Mashable">Mashable</a> article that explored the history of cat media on the Internet, the oldest entry was an <a href="/wiki/ASCII_art" title="ASCII art">ASCII art</a> cat that originated on <a href="/wiki/2channel" title="2channel">2channel</a>, and was a pictorial representation of the phrase "Please go away."<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> The oldest continuously operating cat website is sophie.net, which launched in October 1999 and is still operating.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> described cat images as "that essential building block of the Internet".<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> In addition, 2,594,329 cat images had been manually annotated in flickr.com by users.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> An interesting phenomenon is that many photograph owners tag their house cats as "tiger".<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami started the website <a href="/wiki/I_Can_Haz_Cheezburger" class="mw-redirect" title="I Can Haz Cheezburger">I Can Haz Cheezburger</a> in 2007, where they shared funny pictures of cats. This site allowed users to create <a href="/wiki/Lolcat" title="Lolcat">LOLcat</a> <a href="/wiki/Internet_meme" title="Internet meme">memes</a> by placing writing on top of pictures of their cats. This site now has more than 100 million views per month and has "created a whole new form of internet speak".<a href="#cite_note-auto-7">[7]</a> In 2009, the humour site Urlesque deemed September 9 "A Day Without Cats Online", and had over 40 blogs and websites agree to "[ban] cats from their pages for at least 24 hours".<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> As of 2015<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit">[update]</a>, there are over 2 million cat videos on <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> alone, and cats are one of the most searched keywords on the Internet.<a href="#cite_note-auto-7">[7]</a> CNN estimated that in 2015 there could be around 6.5 billion cat pictures on the Internet.<a href="#cite_note-jeffyang-15">[15]</a> The Internet has been described as a "virtual cat park, a social space for cat lovers in the same way that dog lovers congregate at a dog park".<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> The Daily Telegraph deemed <a href="/wiki/Nyan_Cat" title="Nyan Cat">Nyan Cat</a> the most popular Internet cat,<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> while NPR gave this title to Grumpy Cat.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> The Daily Telegraph also deemed the best cat video on YouTube as "Surprised Kitty (Original)", which currently has over 75 million views.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> Buzzfeed deemed <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cattycake&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cattycake (page does not exist)">Cattycake</a> the most important cat of 2010.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> In 2015, an exhibition called "How Cats Took Over The Internet" opened at the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_the_Moving_Image_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Museum of the Moving Image (New York City)">Museum of the Moving Image</a> in New York.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> The exhibition "looks at the history of how they rose to internet fame, and why people like them so much".<a href="#cite_note-auto-7">[7]</a> There is even a book entitled How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity: A Guide to Financial Freedom.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> The annual <a href="/wiki/Internet_Cat_Video_Festival" title="Internet Cat Video Festival">Internet Cat Video Festival</a> celebrated and awards the Golden Kitty to cat videos.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> According to Star Tribune, the festival's success is because "people realized that the cat video they'd chuckled over in the privacy of their homes was suddenly a thousand times funnier when there are thousands of other people around".<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> The Daily Telegraph had an entire article devoted to International Cat Day.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> EMGN wrote an article entitled "21 Reasons Why Cats And The Internet Are A Match Made in Heaven".<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> In 2015, there were more than 2 million cat videos on YouTube, with an average of 12,000 views each – a higher average than any other category of YouTube content.<a href="#cite_note-nymyrick-27">[27]</a> Cats made up 16% of views in YouTube's "Pets & Animals" category, compared to dogs' 23%.<a href="#cite_note-samanthagrossman-28">[28]</a> The YouTube video Cats vs. Zombies merged the two Internet phenomena of cats and zombies.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Data from BuzzFeed and Tumblr has shown that dog videos have more views than those of cats, and less than 1% of posts on <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a> mention cats.<a href="#cite_note-wired-30">[30]</a> While dogs are searched for much more than cats, there is less content on the Internet.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> The Facebook page "Cats" has over 2 million likes while Dogs has over 6.5 million.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> In an Internet tradition, The New York Times Archives X account posts cat reporting throughout the history of the NYT.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a><a href="#cite_note-auto1-34">[34]</a> The Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima launched an online Cat Street View, which showed the region from the perspective of a cat.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> Abigail Tucker, author of The Lion in the Living Room, a history of domestic cats, has suggested that cats appeal particularly because they "remind us of our own faces, and especially of our babies ... [they're] strikingly human but also perpetually deadpan".<a href="#cite_note-How_Cats_Evolved_to_Win_the_Internet-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-The_Lion_in_the_Living_Room:_How_House_Cats_Tamed_Us_and_Took_Over_the_World-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Psychology">Psychology</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Psychology">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Jason_Eppink" title="Jason Eppink">Jason Eppink</a>, curator of the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_the_Moving_Image_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Museum of the Moving Image (New York City)">Museum of the Moving Image</a>'s show How Cats Took Over the Internet, has noted the "outsized role" of cats on the Internet.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> <a href="/wiki/Wired_(magazine)" title="Wired (magazine)">Wired</a> magazine felt that the cuteness of cats was "too simplistic" an explanation of their popularity online.<a href="#cite_note-wired-30">[30]</a> A scientific survey found that the participants were happier after watching cat videos.<a href="#cite_note-auto-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> The researcher behind the survey explained "If we want to better understand the effects the Internet may have on us as individuals and on society, then researchers can't ignore Internet cats anymore"<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> and "consumption of online cat-related media deserves empirical attention".<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> The Huffington Post suggested that the videos were a form of procrastination, with most being watched while at work or ostensibly studying,<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> while IU Bloomington commented "[it] does more than simply entertain; it boosts viewers' energy and positive emotions and decreases negative feelings".<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> <a href="/wiki/Business_Insider" title="Business Insider">Business Insider</a> argues "This falls in line with a body of research regarding the effects that animals have on people."<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> A 2015 study by Jessica Gall Myrick found that people were more than twice as likely to post a picture or video of a cat to the Internet than they were to post a <a href="/wiki/Selfie" title="Selfie">selfie</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nymyrick-27">[27]</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Maria_Bustillos&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maria Bustillos (page does not exist)">Maria Bustillos</a> considers cat videos to be "the crystallisation of all that human beings love about cats", with their "natural beauty and majesty" being "just one tiny slip away from total humiliation", which Bustillos sees as a mirror of the <a href="/wiki/Human_condition" title="Human condition">human condition</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> When the creator of the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee" title="Tim Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a>, was asked for an example of a popular use of the Internet that he would never have predicted, he answered, "Kittens".<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> A 2014 paper argues that cats' "unselfconsciousness" is rare in an age of <a href="/wiki/Hyper-surveillance" title="Hyper-surveillance">hyper-surveillance</a>, and cat photos appeal to people as it lets them imagine "the possibility of freedom from surveillance", while presenting the power of controlling that surveillance as unproblematic.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> magazine felt that cat images tap into viewers nature as "secret voyeurs".<a href="#cite_note-samanthagrossman-28">[28]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Cheezburger_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheezburger Network">Cheezburger Network</a> considers cats to be the "perfect canvas" for human emotion, as they have expressive facial and body aspects.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> <a href="/wiki/Mashable" title="Mashable">Mashable</a> offered "cats' cuteness, non-cuteness, popularity among geeks, blank canvas qualities, personality issues, and the fact that dogs just don't have 'it'" as possible explanations to cats' popularity on the Internet.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> A paper entitled ""I Can Haz Emoshuns?" – Understanding Anthropomorphosis of Cats among Internet Users" found that Tagpuss, an app that showed users cat images and asked them to choose their emotion "can be used to identify cat behaviours that lay-people find difficult to distinguish".[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Stay_on_topic" title="Wikipedia:Writing better articles">relevant?</a>]<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Jason Eppink, curator of the "How Cats Took Over the Internet" exhibition, explained: "People on the web are more likely to post a cat than another animal, because it sort of perpetuates itself. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. [<a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a>]"<a href="#cite_note-auto1-34">[34]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> <a href="/wiki/Jason_Kottke" title="Jason Kottke">Jason Kottke</a> considers cats to be "easier to objectify" and therefore "easier to make fun of".<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> Journalist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Shepherd_(journalist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jack Shepherd (journalist) (page does not exist)">Jack Shepherd</a> suggested that cats were more popular than dogs because dogs were "trying too hard", and humorous behavior in a dog would be seen as a bid for validation. Shepherd sees cats' behavior as being "<a href="/wiki/Sprezzatura" title="Sprezzatura">cool, and effortless, and devoid of any concern</a> about what you might think about it. It is art for art's sake".<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> Cats have historically been associated with <a href="/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Magic (paranormal)">magic</a>, and have been revered by various human cultures, the ancient Egyptians worshipping them as gods and the creatures being feared as demons in ancient Japan,<a href="#cite_note-jeffyang-15">[15]</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/Bakeneko" title="Bakeneko">bakeneko</a>. <a href="/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a> magazine has suggested that the popularity of cats on the Internet is culturally-specific, being popular in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. Other nations favor different animals online, Ugandans sharing images of goats and chickens, Mexicans preferring llamas, and Chinese Internet users sharing images of the <a href="/wiki/River_crab_(Internet_slang)" class="mw-redirect" title="River crab (Internet slang)">river crab</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grass-mud_horse" class="mw-redirect" title="Grass-mud horse">grass-mud horse</a> due to double-meanings of their names allowing them to "subvert government Internet censors".<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism">Cute cat theory of digital activism</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cute cat theory of digital activism">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cute_cat_theory_of_digital_activism" title="Cute cat theory of digital activism">Cute cat theory of digital activism</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Censorshiplolcat.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A picture of a striped cat in an apparent seated position with its legs spread, looking at the camera. In the upper left corner is the text "Why U Wanna Censor Me?" in white capital letters" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Censorshiplolcat.jpg/220px-Censorshiplolcat.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Censorshiplolcat.jpg/330px-Censorshiplolcat.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Censorshiplolcat.jpg/440px-Censorshiplolcat.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lolcat" title="Lolcat">Lolcat</a> images are often shared through the same networks used by online activists.</figcaption></figure> The cute cat theory of digital activism is a <a href="/wiki/Theory" title="Theory">theory</a> concerning <a href="/wiki/Internet_activism" title="Internet activism">Internet activism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship" title="Internet censorship">Internet censorship</a>, and "cute cats" (a term used for any low-value, but popular online activity) developed by <a href="/wiki/Ethan_Zuckerman" title="Ethan Zuckerman">Ethan Zuckerman</a> in 2008.<a href="#cite_note-fa-56">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt-57">[57]</a> It posits that most people are not interested in activism; instead, they want to use the web for mundane activities, including surfing for <a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">pornography</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lolcat" title="Lolcat">lolcats</a> ("cute cats").<a href="#cite_note-wch-58">[58]</a> The tools that they develop for that (such as <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flickr" title="Flickr">Flickr</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blogger_(service)" title="Blogger (service)">Blogger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, and similar platforms) are very useful to <a href="/wiki/Social_movement" title="Social movement">social movement</a> activists, who may lack resources to develop dedicated tools themselves.<a href="#cite_note-wch-58">[58]</a> This, in turn, makes the activists more immune to reprisals by governments than if they were using a dedicated activism platform, because shutting down a popular public platform provokes a larger public outcry than shutting down an obscure one.<a href="#cite_note-wch-58">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Celebrities">Celebrities</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Celebrities">edit</a>]</div> Because of the relative newness of this industry, most owners of famous cats found themselves stumbling into Internet stardom without intentionally planning it.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grumpy_Cat">Grumpy Cat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Grumpy Cat">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Grumpy_Cat" title="Grumpy Cat">Grumpy Cat</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grumpy_Cat_(14556024763)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Grumpy_Cat_%2814556024763%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Grumpy_Cat_%2814556024763%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Grumpy_Cat_%2814556024763%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Grumpy_Cat_%2814556024763%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Grumpy_Cat_%2814556024763%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Grumpy_Cat_%2814556024763%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1118" data-file-height="1546" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Grumpy_Cat" title="Grumpy Cat">Grumpy Cat</a>, a pet made famous through an <a href="/wiki/Image_macro" title="Image macro">image macro</a>, on stage at <a href="/wiki/VidCon" title="VidCon">VidCon</a> 2014</figcaption></figure> Tardar Sauce (born April 4, 2012 – May 14, 2019),<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> better known by her Internet name "Grumpy Cat", was a cat and <a href="/wiki/Internet_celebrity" title="Internet celebrity">Internet celebrity</a> known for her grumpy <a href="/wiki/Facial_expression" title="Facial expression">facial expression</a>.<a href="#cite_note-about-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-nymag-64">[64]</a> Her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, says that her permanently grumpy-looking face was due to an <a href="/wiki/Malocclusion" title="Malocclusion">underbite</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dwarf_cat" title="Dwarf cat">feline dwarfism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-about-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-foxnews-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-abc-66">[66]</a> Grumpy Cat's popularity originated from a picture posted to the social news website <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a> by Bundesen's brother Bryan on September 22, 2012.<a href="#cite_note-about-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-cnn-67">[67]</a><a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> It was made into an <a href="/wiki/Image_macro" title="Image macro">image macro</a> with grumpy captions. As of December 10, 2014<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit">[update]</a>, "The Official Grumpy Cat" page on <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> has over 7 million "<a href="/wiki/Like_button" title="Like button">likes</a>".<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> Grumpy Cat was featured on the front page of <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a> on May 30, 2013, and on the cover of <a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a> magazine on October 7, 2013.<a href="#cite_note-nymag-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-wsj2-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> In August 2015 it was announced that Grumpy Cat would get her own animatronic waxwork at <a href="/wiki/Madame_Tussauds_San_Francisco" title="Madame Tussauds San Francisco">Madame Tussauds</a> in San Francisco.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> The Huffington Post wrote an article exploring America's fascination with cats.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lil_Bub">Lil Bub</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Lil Bub">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Lil_Bub" title="Lil Bub">Lil Bub</a></div> Lil Bub (Lillian Bubbles) (June 21, 2011 – December 1, 2019)<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> was an <a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">American</a> celebrity cat known for her unique appearance. She was the runt of her litter. Her owner, Mike Bridavsky, adopted her when his friends called to ask him to give her a home. Her photos were first posted to <a href="/wiki/Tumblr" title="Tumblr">Tumblr</a> in November 2011 then taken off after being featured on the social news website <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">reddit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-dailybeast-75">[75]</a> "Lil Bub" on <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> has over two million <a href="/wiki/Like_button" title="Like button">Likes</a>.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> Lil Bub stars in <a href="/wiki/Lil_Bub_%26_Friendz" title="Lil Bub & Friendz">Lil Bub & Friendz</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Documentary" class="mw-redirect" title="Documentary">documentary</a> premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Tribeca_Film_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribeca Film Festival">Tribeca Film Festival</a> on April 18, 2013, that won the Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film.<a href="#cite_note-friendz-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-tribecafilm-78">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-tff-winners-79">[79]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maru">Maru</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Maru">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Maru_(cat)" title="Maru (cat)">Maru (cat)</a></div> Maru (まる, Japanese: circle or round; born May 24, 2007<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a>) is a male <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Fold" title="Scottish Fold">Scottish Fold</a> (straight variety<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a>) cat in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> who has become popular on <a href="/wiki/Social_impact_of_YouTube" title="Social impact of YouTube">YouTube</a>. As of April 2013<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit">[update]</a>, videos with Maru have been viewed over 200 million times.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> Videos featuring Maru have an average of 800,000 views each and he is mentioned often in print and televised media discussing Internet celebrities.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> Maru is the "most famous cat on the internet."<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> Maru's owner posts videos under the account name 'mugumogu'. His owner is almost never seen in the videos, although the video titled <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Q1QCr6b98">"Maru's ear cleaning"</a>. <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>. December 18, 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=YouTube&rft.atitle=Maru%27s+ear+cleaning&rft.date=2008-12-18&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D20Q1QCr6b98&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACats+and+the+Internet" class="Z3988"> is an exception. The videos include title cards in English and Japanese setting up and describing the events, and often show Maru playing in cardboard boxes, indicated by "I love a box!" in his first video. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colonel_Meow">Colonel Meow</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Colonel Meow">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Colonel_Meow" title="Colonel Meow">Colonel Meow</a></div> Colonel Meow (adopted October 11, 2011<a href="#cite_note-85">[Note 1]</a> – January 29, 2014)<a href="#cite_note-Youtube-86">[85]</a> was a male <a href="/wiki/Himalayan_(cat)" class="mw-redirect" title="Himalayan (cat)">Himalayan</a>–<a href="/wiki/Persian_(cat)" class="mw-redirect" title="Persian (cat)">Persian</a> <a href="/wiki/Crossbreed" title="Crossbreed">crossbreed</a> cat, who holds the 2014 <a href="/wiki/Guinness_world_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Guinness world record">Guinness world record</a> for the longest fur on a cat (9 in (230 mm)).<a href="#cite_note-87">[86]</a> He became an <a href="/wiki/Internet_celebrity" title="Internet celebrity">Internet celebrity</a> when his owners posted pictures of his scowling face to <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram">Instagram</a>.<a href="#cite_note-CNN-88">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-TODAY-89">[88]</a> He was known by his hundreds of thousands of followers as an "adorable fearsome dictator", a "prodigious Scotch drinker" and "the angriest cat in the world".<a href="#cite_note-TODAY-89">[88]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oh_Long_Johnson">Oh Long Johnson</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Oh Long Johnson">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Oh Long Johnson" redirects here. For the 2019 album by Miss Caffeina, see <a href="/wiki/Oh_Long_Johnson_(album)" title="Oh Long Johnson (album)">Oh Long Johnson (album)</a>.</div> This unnamed cat was featured in the first place-winning video "Cat's Got a Tongue"<a href="#cite_note-90">[89]</a> from Season 10, Episode 20 of <a href="/wiki/America%27s_Funniest_Home_Videos" title="America's Funniest Home Videos">America's Funniest Home Videos</a>. In the video, the cat makes aggressive noises at another.<a href="#cite_note-nzh-91">[90]</a> The noises sound like human words and phrases such as "Oh my dog", "Oh Long John", "Oh Long Johnson", "Oh Don piano", "Why I eyes ya", and "All the live long day."<a href="#cite_note-youtube_201203-92">[91]</a> The video first appeared on the Internet in 2006<a href="#cite_note-nzh-91">[90]</a> during a compilation video on YouTube featuring cats producing human-like sounds, and other standalone videos were later uploaded. The full clip shows a second, younger-looking cat in the room.<a href="#cite_note-Talking_cat_says_Oh_Long_Johnson-93">[92]</a> By 2012, the video of the cat had been viewed 6.5 million times.<a href="#cite_note-94">[93]</a> The clip was included in the 2019 Cat Video Fest which was held at the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver on April 20. There were to be five consecutive screenings of the videos.<a href="#cite_note-95">[94]</a> The video was referenced in the <a href="/wiki/South_Park" title="South Park">South Park</a> episode "<a href="/wiki/Faith_Hilling" title="Faith Hilling">Faith Hilling</a>", where Johnson's speech pattern ended up causing several deaths related to "Oh Long Johnsoning".<a href="#cite_note-96">[95]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Jorts">Jorts</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Jorts">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Jorts_(cat)" title="Jorts (cat)">Jorts (cat)</a></div> Jorts is an office cat that was the centre of a December 2021 dispute between staff. Self-reporting of the dispute on a subreddit of Reddit attracted significant attention.<a href="#cite_note-97">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Internet_memes">Internet memes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Internet memes">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lolcat">Lolcat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Lolcat">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Lolcat" title="Lolcat">Lolcat</a></div> A lolcat (pronounced <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈlɒlkæt/</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">LOL-kat</a>) is an <a href="/wiki/Image_macro" title="Image macro">image macro</a> of one or more <a href="/wiki/Cat" title="Cat">cats</a>. The image's text is often <a href="/wiki/Idiosyncrasy" title="Idiosyncrasy">idiosyncratic</a> and grammatically incorrect. Its use in this way is known as "lolspeak" or "kitty pidgin". "Lolcat" is a <a href="/wiki/Compound_(linguistics)" title="Compound (linguistics)">compound word</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Acronymic" class="mw-redirect" title="Acronymic">acronymic</a> abbreviation for "laugh out loud" (<a href="/wiki/LOL" title="LOL">LOL</a>) and the word "cat".<a href="#cite_note-wsj1-98">[97]</a><a href="#cite_note-Silverman-99">[98]</a> A synonym for "lolcat" is cat macro, since the images are a type of <a href="/wiki/Image_macro" title="Image macro">image macro</a>.<a href="#cite_note-beacon-100">[99]</a> Lolcats are commonly designed for <a href="/wiki/Photo_sharing" class="mw-redirect" title="Photo sharing">photo sharing</a> <a href="/wiki/Imageboard" title="Imageboard">imageboards</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Internet_forums" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet forums">Internet forums</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nyan_Cat">Nyan Cat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Nyan Cat">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nyan_Cat" title="Nyan Cat">Nyan Cat</a></div> Nyan Cat is the name of a <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> video, uploaded in April 2011, which became an <a href="/wiki/Internet_meme" title="Internet meme">Internet meme</a>. The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon <a href="/wiki/Cat" title="Cat">cat</a> with the body of a <a href="/wiki/Pop-Tart" class="mw-redirect" title="Pop-Tart">Pop-Tart</a>, flying through space, and leaving a <a href="/wiki/Rainbow" title="Rainbow">rainbow</a> trail behind it. The video ranked at number 5 on the list of most viewed YouTube videos in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-ranking-101">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Keyboard_Cat">Keyboard Cat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Keyboard Cat">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Keyboard_Cat" title="Keyboard Cat">Keyboard Cat</a></div> Keyboard Cat is another <a href="/wiki/Internet_phenomenon" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet phenomenon">Internet phenomenon</a>. It consists of a video from 1984 of Fatso, a cat wearing a blue shirt and appearing to play an upbeat rhythm on an <a href="/wiki/Electronic_keyboard" title="Electronic keyboard">electronic keyboard</a>. The video was posted to <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> under the title "charlie schmidt's cool cats" in June 2007. Schmidt later changed the title to "Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat (The Original)".<a href="#cite_note-102">[101]</a> Fatso (who died in 1987)<a href="#cite_note-103">[102]</a> was owned (and manipulated in the video) by Charlie Schmidt of <a href="/wiki/Spokane,_Washington" title="Spokane, Washington">Spokane, Washington</a>, US, and the blue shirt still belonged to Schmidt's cat Fatso. Later, Brad O'Farrell, who was the syndication manager of the video website <a href="/wiki/My_Damn_Channel" class="mw-redirect" title="My Damn Channel">My Damn Channel</a>, obtained Schmidt's permission to reuse the footage, appending it to the end of a <a href="/wiki/Blooper" title="Blooper">blooper</a> video to "play" that person offstage after the mistake or gaffe in a similar manner as getting the hook in the days of <a href="/wiki/Vaudeville" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a>.<a href="#cite_note-104">[103]</a> The appending of Schmidt's video to other blooper and other <a href="/wiki/Viral_video" title="Viral video">viral videos</a> became popular, with such videos usually accompanied with the title Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat or a variant. "Keyboard Cat" was ranked No. 2 on <a href="/wiki/Current_TV" title="Current TV">Current TV</a>'s list of 50 Greatest Viral Videos.<a href="#cite_note-105">[104]</a> In 2009 Schmidt became owner of Bento, another cat that resembled Fatso, and which he used to create new Keyboard Cat videos, until Bento's death in March 2018.<a href="#cite_note-106">[105]</a> Schmidt has adopted a new cat "Skinny" or "Keyboard Cat 3.0", which has yet to become popular. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cats_that_Look_Like_Hitler">Cats that Look Like Hitler</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Cats that Look Like Hitler">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cats_That_Look_Like_Hitler" title="Cats That Look Like Hitler">Cats That Look Like Hitler</a></div> Cats That Look Like Hitler is a satirical website featuring photographs of cats that bear an alleged resemblance to <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Finkelstein-107">[106]</a> Most of the cats have a large black splotch underneath their nose, much like the dictator's stumpy <a href="/wiki/Toothbrush_moustache" title="Toothbrush moustache">toothbrush moustache</a>. The site was founded by Koos Plegt and Paul Neve in 2006,<a href="#cite_note-popmatters-108">[107]</a> and became widely known after being featured on several television programmes across Europe<a href="#cite_note-popmatters-108">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-110">[109]</a> and Australia.<a href="#cite_note-111">[110]</a> The site is now only run by Neve. As of February 2013<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit">[update]</a>, the site contained photographs of over 8,000 cats, submitted by owners with digital cameras and Internet access and then approved by Neve as content.<a href="#cite_note-112">[111]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Everytime_you_masturbate..._God_kills_a_kitten">Everytime you masturbate... God kills a kitten</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Everytime you masturbate... God kills a kitten">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Every_time_you_masturbate..._God_kills_a_kitten" title="Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten">Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten</a></div> "Every time you <a href="/wiki/Masturbate" class="mw-redirect" title="Masturbate">masturbate</a>... God kills a kitten" is the caption of an image created by a member of the website <a href="/wiki/Fark" title="Fark">Fark</a> in 2002.<a href="#cite_note-fark-113">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-114">[113]</a> The image features a <a href="/wiki/Kitten" title="Kitten">kitten</a> (subsequently referred to as "Cliché Kitty") being chased by two <a href="/wiki/Domo_(NHK)" title="Domo (NHK)">Domos</a>, and has the tagline "Please, think of the kittens". <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="I_Can_Has_Cheezburger">I Can Has Cheezburger</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: I Can Has Cheezburger">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/I_Can_Has_Cheezburger%3F" title="I Can Has Cheezburger?">I Can Has Cheezburger?</a></div> It was created in 2007 by <a href="/wiki/Eric_Nakagawa" title="Eric Nakagawa">Eric Nakagawa</a> (Cheezburger), a blogger from <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, and his friend Kari Unebasami (Tofuburger).[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The website is one of the most popular Internet sites of its kind. It received as many as 1,500,000 hits per day at its peak in May 2007.<a href="#cite_note-sxsweek-115">[114]</a><a href="#cite_note-businessweek-116">[115]</a> ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal-based <a href="/wiki/Image_macro" title="Image macro">image macros</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lolspeak" class="mw-redirect" title="Lolspeak">lolspeak</a> into mainstream usage and making <a href="/wiki/Internet_memes" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet memes">Internet memes</a> profitable.<a href="#cite_note-phoenix-117">[116]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brussels_lockdown">Brussels lockdown</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Brussels lockdown">edit</a>]</div> In 2015, the atmosphere among the community of Brussels, Belgium was tense when the city <a href="/wiki/Brussels_lockdown" class="mw-redirect" title="Brussels lockdown">was put under the highest level state of emergency</a> immediately following the <a href="/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks" title="November 2015 Paris attacks">Paris attacks</a>; however, Internet cats were able to cut the tension by taking over the Twitter feed #BrusselsLockdown.<a href="#cite_note-118">[117]</a> The feed was designed to discuss operational details of terrorist raids, but when police asked for a social media blackout the hashtag was overwhelmed by Internet users posting pictures of cats to drown out serious discussion and prevent terrorists from gaining any useful information.<a href="#cite_note-119">[118]</a> The use of cat images is a reference to the Level 4 state of emergency: the French word for the number 4, quatre, is pronounced similarly to the word "cat" in English.<a href="#cite_note-120">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pusheen">Pusheen</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Pusheen">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Pusheen" title="Pusheen">Pusheen</a></div> Pusheen is another <a href="/wiki/Internet_phenomenon" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet phenomenon">Internet phenomenon</a> about a cartoon cat. Created in 2010 by <a href="/wiki/Claire_Belton" class="mw-redirect" title="Claire Belton">Claire Belton</a>, the popularity of using emoji and <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> stickers led to a rise in Pusheen's popularity. She now has 9 million followers. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bongo_Cat">Bongo Cat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Bongo Cat">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bongo_Cat" title="Bongo Cat">Bongo Cat</a></div> Bongo Cat is another <a href="/wiki/Internet_meme" title="Internet meme">Internet meme</a> about a cartoon cat that originated on May 7, 2018, when an animated cat <a href="/wiki/GIF" title="GIF">gif</a> made by <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> user "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/StrayRogue">@StrayRogue</a>"<a href="#cite_note-122">[121]</a> was edited by Twitter user "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/DitzyFlama">@DitzyFlama</a>"<a href="#cite_note-123">[122]</a> to include bongos and the music "Athletic" from the <a href="/wiki/Super_Mario_World" title="Super Mario World">Super Mario World</a> soundtrack. This cat has since been edited to many other songs, and many different instruments. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Peepee_the_Cat">Peepee the Cat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Peepee the Cat">edit</a>]</div> Peepee the cat was the star of a <a href="/wiki/Copypasta" title="Copypasta">copypasta</a> popularized on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>. The post, "i Amn just........... a litle creacher. Thatse It . I Canot change this" was posted on September 18, 2018, and has garnered over 38,000 likes.<a href="#cite_note-124">[123]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vibing_Cat/CatJam">Vibing Cat/CatJam</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Vibing Cat/CatJam">edit</a>]</div> In April 2020, a video of a white cat from Québec, Canada named Minette bobbing her head as if dancing went viral.<a href="#cite_note-The_Daily_Dot_2020-125">[124]</a> In addition to its popularity on social media sites like Youtube and TikTok, the cat was widely shared on livestreaming platform <a href="/wiki/Twitch_(service)" title="Twitch (service)">Twitch.tv</a>, where it was enabled as a emote through third-party service BetterTTV on over 200,000 channels.<a href="#cite_note-BetterTTV-126">[125]</a> In December 2020, the official YouTube Channel of the <a href="/wiki/International_Cricket_Council" title="International Cricket Council">International Cricket Council</a> posted a video named "Vibing cricketers, vibing cat" showing edited footage of the cat alongside various cricketers dancing to music.<a href="#cite_note-Hindustan_Times_2020-127">[126]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Zoom_Cat_Lawyer/I'm_Not_a_Cat">Zoom Cat Lawyer/I'm Not a Cat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Zoom Cat Lawyer/I'm Not a Cat">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Zoom_Cat_Lawyer" title="Zoom Cat Lawyer">Zoom Cat Lawyer</a></div> It refers to a viral video taken from a live stream of a <a href="/wiki/Civil_forfeiture" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil forfeiture">civil forfeiture</a> hearing, and being held on the video conferencing application <a href="/wiki/Zoom_(software)" title="Zoom (software)">Zoom</a> in <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>' 394th Judicial District Court. The video features attorney Rod Ponton, who is struggling to disable a cat filter that shows a white kitten mask over his face, resulting in it appearing as if a cat is speaking.<a href="#cite_note-128">[127]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Floppa">Floppa</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Floppa">edit</a>]</div> Big Floppa is a <a href="/wiki/Caracal" title="Caracal">caracal</a> from Russia (real name Gregory or Gosha for short) who gained popularity as an internet meme after being posted by his owner on Instagram.<a href="#cite_note-129">[128]</a> Floppa can also more generally refer to a collection of images either portraying Big Floppa (also referred to as Gosha or Shlepa) or any caracals. The collection of images do not portray to a specific theme per se, but always hold Floppa as a centerpoint or personification of something.<a href="#cite_note-130">[129]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Catloaf">Catloaf</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Catloaf">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cute_cat_in_loaf_position.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Cute_cat_in_loaf_position.jpg/220px-Cute_cat_in_loaf_position.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Cute_cat_in_loaf_position.jpg/330px-Cute_cat_in_loaf_position.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Cute_cat_in_loaf_position.jpg/440px-Cute_cat_in_loaf_position.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1714" data-file-height="1097" /></a><figcaption>A cat "loafing" with its paws and tail tucked under its body</figcaption></figure> Catloaf (also spelled as cat loaf and sometimes known as hovercat,<a href="#cite_note-131">[130]</a> tugboat or loafing<a href="#cite_note-inverse-132">[131]</a>) is a term used to describe a cat's sitting position in which its paws and tail are tucked under the body, forming a <a href="/wiki/Loaf" title="Loaf">loaf</a>-like shape. A speculation for the sitting position indicates that the cat is relaxed and feels unthreatened, and therefore has no need to sit in a position where it would have to attack. Another potential reason for this sitting position is for the cat to maintain a comfortable body temperature without having to move.<a href="#cite_note-133">[132]</a> American cartoonist <a href="/wiki/B._Kliban" title="B. Kliban">B. Kliban</a> had noted the similarity between the shapes of cats and <a href="/wiki/Meatloaf" title="Meatloaf">meatloaves</a> as early as 1975.<a href="#cite_note-134">[133]</a> However, widespread popularity of the word had not gained peak popularity until the 2010s on social media sites such as Reddit and Twitter, as well as Facebook, where the sitting position is also known as "tugboat" in the "Tuggin'" <a href="/wiki/Facebook_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Facebook group">group</a>.<a href="#cite_note-135">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-inverse-132">[131]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cat_walking_on_the_Han_River">Cat walking on the Han River</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Cat walking on the Han River">edit</a>]</div> In South Korea, a 2021 news report's mention of a cat walking on the frozen <a href="/wiki/Han_River_(Korea)" title="Han River (Korea)">Han River</a> in <a href="/wiki/Seoul" title="Seoul">Seoul</a> became a meme in 2022.<a href="#cite_note-:0-136">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-137">[136]</a> In the video,<a href="#cite_note-138">[137]</a>: 0:48  a reporter says the phrase "꽁꽁 얼어붙은 한강 위로 고양이가 걸어 다닙니다" (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr> 'On top of the completely frozen Han River walks a cat.'). In 2024, the audio of the phrase was remixed into a song that became associated with a dance challenge.<a href="#cite_note-:0-136">[135]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-137">[136]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Banana_Cat">Banana Cat</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Banana Cat">edit</a>]</div> Banana Cat, a cat inside a <a href="/wiki/Banana" title="Banana">banana</a> skin, has been notably used by the Canadian <a href="/wiki/Ontario_New_Democratic_Party" title="Ontario New Democratic Party">Ontario New Democratic Party</a> in <a href="/wiki/TikTok" title="TikTok">TikTok</a> campaign ads. A series of videos titled "Banana Cat explains" describe "New Democats'" strategies for addressing issues such as healthcare, education and grocery costs.<a href="#cite_note-t877-139">[138]</a> During a 2024 speech by Ontario New Democratic leader <a href="/wiki/Marit_Stiles" title="Marit Stiles">Marit Stiles</a> about the governing <a href="/wiki/Ontario_Progressive_Conservative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Ontario Progressive Conservative Party">Ontario Progressive Conservative Party</a>'s legacy, Progressive Conservative <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Provincial_Parliament_(Canada)" title="Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada)">MPP</a> <a href="/wiki/Goldie_Ghamari" title="Goldie Ghamari">Goldie Ghamari</a> shouted in response "Your legacy is making cat videos on TikTok".<a href="#cite_note-a721-140">[139]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spoofs">Spoofs</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Spoofs">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten" title="Bonsai Kitten">Bonsai Kitten</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> website launched in 2000 that claims to provide instructions on how to grow a kitten in a jar, so as to mold the bones of the kitten into the shape of the jar as the cat grows, much like how a <a href="/wiki/Bonsai" title="Bonsai">bonsai</a> plant is shaped. It was made by an <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</a> university student going by the <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">alias</a> of Dr. Michael Wong Chang.<a href="#cite_note-declan-141">[140]</a> The website generated furor after members of the <a href="/wiki/General_public" class="mw-redirect" title="General public">public</a> complained to <a href="/wiki/Animal_rights" title="Animal rights">animal rights</a> organizations, who stated that "while the site's content may be faked, the issue it is campaigning for may create <a href="/wiki/Animal_abuse" class="mw-redirect" title="Animal abuse">violence towards animals</a>", according to the Michigan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA). Although the website in its most recent form was shut down, it still generates (primarily spam) <a href="/wiki/Petitions" class="mw-redirect" title="Petitions">petitions</a> to shut the site down or complain to its <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">ISP</a>. The website has been thoroughly debunked by <a href="/wiki/Snopes.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Snopes.com">Snopes.com</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Humane_Society_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="The Humane Society of the United States">The Humane Society of the United States</a>, among other prominent organizations. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cat_media_and_news_websites">Cat media and news websites</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Cat media and news websites">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Catnip_Times">The Catnip Times</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: The Catnip Times">edit</a>]</div> Founded by Laura Mieli in 2012, it has been running full time since 2017.<a href="#cite_note-142">[141]</a> It now has more than a million followers in over 100 countries.<a href="#cite_note-143">[142]</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[143]</a> It contributes articles to <a href="/wiki/American_Kennel_Club" title="American Kennel Club">American Kennel Club</a> affiliate, AKC Reunite.<a href="#cite_note-145">[144]</a><a href="#cite_note-146">[145]</a><a href="#cite_note-147">[146]</a> In July 2018, it sponsored the first ever "Meow Meetup" at the <a href="/wiki/Donald_E._Stephens_Convention_Center" title="Donald E. Stephens Convention Center">Stephens Convention Center</a> in Rosemont, Illinois. The event was held July 21–22,<a href="#cite_note-148">[147]</a> was estimated to attract around 3000 people. It was the largest cat conference in the Midwest.<a href="#cite_note-149">[148]</a><a href="#cite_note-150">[149]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="News_by_Cats">News by Cats</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: News by Cats">edit</a>]</div> Founded by Lithuanian-born Justinas Butkus who lives in <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, the site adds a cat element to news stories. Reporting on actual events, it changes the wording to a type of cat talk such as "kidney opurration" instead of kidney operation and "prepurr for major eruption" instead of prepare for major eruption. There were mixed reactions within the first week of the site's operation.<a href="#cite_note-151">[150]</a> NewsByCats.com has been defunct since some time after March 9, 2022.<a href="#cite_note-152">[151]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Purrington_Post">The Purrington Post</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Cats_and_the_Internet&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: The Purrington Post">edit</a>]</div> The Purrington Post publishes a newsletter. The first, Volume 1, Issue 1 came out on November 1, 2013.<a href="#cite_note-153">[152]</a> According to Natural Pet Science, The Purrington Post averages half a million page views per trimester.<a href="#cite_note-154">[153]</a> It was referred to in September 2018 as an award-winning cat blog by the <a href="/wiki/Dow_Jones_%26_Company" title="Dow Jones & Company">Dow Jones & Company</a> owned financial information service <a href="/wiki/MarketWatch" title="MarketWatch">MarketWatch</a>.<a href="#cite_note-155">[154]</a> Also that year it was rated No. 3 by KittyCoaching.com in a list of the 12 best cat blogs for that year.<a href="#cite_note-156">[155]</a> It was also highly rated by Cats.com in their Top 35 Cat Blogs You Should Know About list for 2018.<a href="#cite_note-157">[156]</a> The opinion of the Post on cat behavior has been valued enough to be quoted in articles.<a href="#cite_note-158">[157]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a 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href="/wiki/Chartreux" title="Chartreux">Chartreux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon_Li" title="Dragon Li">Chinese Li Hua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorpoint_Shorthair" title="Colorpoint Shorthair">Colorpoint Shorthair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornish_Rex" title="Cornish Rex">Cornish Rex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cymric_cat" title="Cymric cat">Cymric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devon_Rex" title="Devon Rex">Devon Rex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donskoy_cat" title="Donskoy cat">Donskoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Mau" title="Egyptian Mau">Egyptian Mau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Shorthair" title="European Shorthair">European Shorthair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exotic_Shorthair" title="Exotic Shorthair">Exotic Shorthair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foldex_cat" title="Foldex cat">Foldex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Rex" title="German Rex">German Rex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Himalayan_cat" title="Himalayan cat">Himalayan</a></li> <li><a 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