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Images, videos andmemes ofdomestic cats make up some of the most viewed content on theWorld Wide Web.Thought Catalog has described cats as the "unofficial mascot of the Internet".[1]

The subject 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.[2] Some argue that there is a depth and complexity to this seemingly simple content, with a suggestion that thepositive psychological effects that pets have on their owners also hold true for cat images viewed online.[3]

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 show that feelings of guilt when postponing tasks can be reduced by viewing cat content.[4]

Someindividual cats, such asGrumpy Cat andLil Bub, have achieved popularity online because of their unusual appearances and funny videos.

An image of Lil Bub, feline celebrity superstar, from 2013
Lil Bub in 2013

History

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Humans have a longstandingrelationship with cats, and the animals have often been a subject of short films, including the early silent moviesBoxing Cats (1894) andThe Sick Kitten (1903).[5] Harry Pointer (1822–1889) has been cited as the "progenitor of the shameless cat picture".[6] Cats have been shared via email since the Internet's rise to prominence in the 1990s.[7] The first cat video onYouTube was uploaded in 2005 by YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, who posted a video of his cat called "Pajamas andNick Drake".[7] The following year, "Puppy vs Cat" became the first viral cat video; uploaded by a user called Sanchey (a.k.a. Michael Wienzek);[8] as of 2015[update] it had over 16 million views on YouTube.[7] In aMashable article that explored the history of cat media on the Internet, the oldest entry was anASCII art cat that originated on2channel, and was a pictorial representation of the phrase "Please go away."[9] The oldest continuously operating cat website is sophie.net, which launched in October 1999 and is still operating.[10]

The New York Times described cat images as "that essential building block of the Internet".[11] In addition, 2,594,329 cat images had been manually annotated in flickr.com by users.[12] An interesting phenomenon is that many photograph owners tag their house cats as "tiger".[13]

Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami started the websiteI Can Haz Cheezburger in 2007, where they shared funny pictures of cats. This site allowed users to createLOLcatmemes by placing writing on top of pictures of their cats. By 2015, the site had more than 100 million views per month and had "created a whole new form of internet speak".[7] 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".[14] As of 2015[update], there are over 2 million cat videos onYouTube alone, and cats are one of the most searched keywords on the Internet.[7] CNN estimated that in 2015 there could be around 6.5 billion cat pictures on the Internet.[15] 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".[16]The Daily Telegraph deemedNyan Cat the most popular Internet cat,[17] while NPR gave this title to Grumpy Cat.[18]The Daily Telegraph also deemed the best cat video on YouTube as "Surprised Kitty (Original)", which currently has over 75 million views.[19] Buzzfeed deemed Cattycake the most important cat of 2010.[20]

In 2015, an exhibition called "How Cats Took Over The Internet" opened at theMuseum of the Moving Image in New York.[21] The exhibition "looks at the history of how they rose to internet fame, and why people like them so much".[7] There is even a book entitledHow to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity: A Guide to Financial Freedom.[22] The annualInternet Cat Video Festival celebrated and awards the Golden Kitty to cat videos.[23] According toStar 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".[24]The Daily Telegraph had an entire article devoted to International Cat Day.[25] EMGN wrote an article entitled "21 Reasons Why Cats And The Internet Are A Match Made in Heaven".[26]

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.[27] Cats made up 16% of views in YouTube's "Pets & Animals" category, compared to dogs' 23%.[28] The YouTube videoCats vs. Zombies merged the two Internet phenomena of cats and zombies.[29] Data from BuzzFeed and Tumblr has shown that dog videos have more views than those of cats, and less than 1% of posts onReddit mention cats.[30] While dogs are searched for much more than cats, there is less content on the Internet.[31] The Facebook page "Cats" has over 2 million likes while Dogs has over 6.5 million.[32] In an Internet tradition,The New York Times Archives Xaccount posts cat reporting throughout the history of the NYT.[33][34] The Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima launched an online Cat Street View, which showed the region from the perspective of a cat.[35][36]

Abigail Tucker, author ofThe 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".[37][38]

Psychology

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Jason Eppink, curator of theMuseum of the Moving Image's showHow Cats Took Over the Internet, has noted the "outsized role" of cats on the Internet.[39]Wired magazine felt that the cuteness of cats was "too simplistic" an explanation of their popularity online.[30]

A scientific survey found that the participants were happier after watching cat videos.[7][40] 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"[41] and "consumption of online cat-related media deserves empirical attention".[42] TheHuffington Post suggested that the videos were a form of procrastination, with most being watched while at work or ostensibly studying,[43] while IU Bloomington commented "[it] does more than simply entertain; it boosts viewers' energy and positive emotions and decreases negative feelings".[44]Business Insider argues "This falls in line with a body of research regarding the effects that animals have on people."[45] 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 aselfie.[27]

Maria Bustillos 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 thehuman condition.[46] When the creator of theWorld Wide Web,Tim Berners-Lee, was asked for an example of a popular use of the Internet that he would never have predicted, he answered, "Kittens".[47] A 2014 paper argues that cats' "unselfconsciousness" is rare in an age ofhyper-surveillance, 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.[48]Time magazine felt that cat images tap into viewers nature as "secret voyeurs".[28]

TheCheezburger Network considers cats to be the "perfect canvas" for human emotion, as they have expressive facial and body aspects.[49]Mashable 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.[50] 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".[relevant?][51]

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. [sic]"[34][52]Jason Kottke considers cats to be "easier to objectify" and therefore "easier to make fun of".[53] Journalist Jack Shepherd 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 "cool, and effortless, and devoid of any concern about what you might think about it. It is art for art's sake".[54]

Cats have historically been associated withmagic, 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,[15] such as thebakeneko.Vogue 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 theriver crab andgrass-mud horse due to double-meanings of their names allowing them to "subvert government Internet censors".[55]

Cute cat theory of digital activism

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Main article:Cute cat theory of digital activism
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
Lolcat images are often shared through the same networks used by online activists.

The cute cat theory of digital activism is atheory concerningInternet activism,Internet censorship, and "cute cats" (a term used for any low-value, but popular online activity) developed byEthan Zuckerman in 2008.[56][57] It posits that most people are not interested in activism; instead, they want to use the web for mundane activities, including surfing forpornography andlolcats ("cute cats").[58] The tools that they develop for that (such asFacebook,Flickr,Blogger,Twitter, and similar platforms) are very useful tosocial movement activists, who may lack resources to develop dedicated tools themselves.[58] 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.[58]

Celebrities

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Because of the relative newness of this industry, most owners of famous cats found themselves stumbling into Internet stardom without intentionally planning it.[59]

Grumpy Cat

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Main article:Grumpy Cat
Grumpy Cat, a pet made famous through animage macro, on stage atVidCon 2014

Tardar Sauce (born April 4, 2012 – May 14, 2019),[60][61] better known by her Internet name "Grumpy Cat", was a cat andInternet celebrity known for her grumpyfacial expression.[62][63][64] Her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, says that her permanently grumpy-looking face was due to anunderbite andfeline dwarfism.[62][65][66] Grumpy Cat's popularity originated from a picture posted to Reddit by Bundesen's brother Bryan on September 22, 2012.[62][67][68] It was made into animage macro with grumpy captions. As of December 10, 2014[update], "The Official Grumpy Cat" page onFacebook has over 7 millionlikes.[69] Grumpy Cat was featured on the front page ofThe Wall Street Journal on May 30, 2013, and on the cover ofNew York magazine on October 7, 2013.[64][70][71] In August 2015 it was announced that Grumpy Cat would get her own animatronic waxwork atMadame Tussauds in San Francisco.[72]The Huffington Post wrote an article exploring America's fascination with cats.[73]

Lil Bub

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Main article:Lil Bub

Lil Bub (Lillian Bubbles) (June 21, 2011 – December 1, 2019)[74] was anAmerican 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 toTumblr in November 2011 then taken off after being featured on Reddit.[75] "Lil Bub" onFacebook has over two millionlikes.[76] Lil Bub stars inLil Bub & Friendz, adocumentary premiered at theTribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2013, that won the Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film.[77][78][79]

Maru

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Main article:Maru (cat)

Maru (まる, Japanese:circle orround) (May 24, 2007 - September 6, 2025[80]) was a maleScottish Fold (straight variety[81]) cat inJapan who became popular onYouTube. As of September 2025[update], videos with Maru have been viewed over 578 million times.[82] Videos featuring Maru have an average of 800,000 views each, and he is mentioned often in print and televised media discussing Internet celebrities.[83] Maru is the "most famous cat on the internet."[84]

Maru's owner posts videos under the account name 'mugumogu'. His owner is almost never seen in the videos, although the video titled"Maru's ear cleaning".YouTube. December 18, 2008. 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.

Colonel Meow

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Main article:Colonel Meow

Colonel Meow (adopted October 11, 2011[Note 1] – January 29, 2014)[85] was a maleHimalayanPersiancrossbreed cat, who holds the 2014Guinness world record for the longest fur on a cat (9 in (230 mm)).[86] He became anInternet celebrity when his owners posted pictures of his scowling face toFacebook andInstagram.[87][88] 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".[88]

Oh Long Johnson

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"Oh Long Johnson" redirects here. For the 2019 album by Miss Caffeina, seeOh Long Johnson (album).

This unnamed cat was featured in the first place-winning video "Cat's Got a Tongue"[89] from Season 10, Episode 20 ofAmerica's Funniest Home Videos. In the video, the cat makes aggressive noises at another.[90] 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", "All the live long day", and "Oh that long long Johnson". "[91] The video first appeared on the Internet in 2006[90] 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.[92]

By 2012, the video of the cat had been viewed 6.5 million times.[93] 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.[94]

The video was referenced in theSouth Park episode "Faith Hilling".[95]

Jorts

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Main article:Jorts (cat)

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.[96]

Brünnhilde

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A black-and-white profile photograph of a cat wearing miniature scale armor and a winged helmet. The photograph is labeled with the name "Brünnhilde".
A sepia-toned portrait photograph of a cat wearing miniature scale armor and a winged helmet. The photograph is labeled with the name "Brünnhilde".
Both photographs of Brünnhilde in 1936.

Brünnhilde was a female tabby cat known from two 1936 photographs of her wearing a costume ofher namesake fromDer Ring des Nibelungen, an opera cycle byRichard Wagner. She became notable in 2022 for her inclusion inNot an Ostrich: & Other Images from America's Library, an exhibit of historical photographs hosted by the United StatesLibrary of Congress.[97]

Brünnhilde was owned by a man named Adolph Edward Weidhaas, who adopted her as a stray. He took two photographs of her in costume, wearing miniature scale armor and a winged helmet. The photographs were put on display at the Snapshot Store, a photography store in New York City, as advertisements.[98] Both photographs are now in the collection of the Library of Congress. Initially, only one of the photographs was available online (showing Brünnhilde from the side), and the Library of Congress described it as "one of [their] most beloved free-to-use photos". In January 2023, the Library of Congress digitized the second photograph (which shows Brünnhilde from the front) and released it onTwitter, at which point it became viral.[99] TheAssociated Press noted that the photographs of Brünnhilde were similar to many modern comedic cat photographs, saying that "at least one aspect of photography hasn't changed much in 150 years".[100]

Belle (Clone Kitty)

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Belle (born 2021), better known by her internet nameClone Kitty, is a cat and internet celebrity recognized as the most well-known cloned cat on social media. Cloned from her owner’s late cat, Chai, Belle’s story has attracted global attention for its emotional, scientific, and ethical dimensions, sparking widespread discussions about pet cloning.[101]

Belle has been featured in major international media outlets includingGood Morning America,The Washington Post, and theBBC, which have covered her unique bond with her owner and the ethical questions surrounding pet cloning.[102][103]

Internet memes

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Lolcat

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Main article:Lolcat

A lolcat (pronounced/ˈlɒlkæt/LOL-kat) is animage macro of one or morecats. The image's text is oftenidiosyncratic and grammatically incorrect. Its use in this way is known as "lolspeak" or "kitty pidgin".

"Lolcat" is acompound word of theacronymic abbreviation for "laugh out loud" (LOL) and the word "cat".[104][105] A synonym for "lolcat" iscat macro, since the images are a type ofimage macro.[106] Lolcats are commonly designed forphoto sharingimageboards and otherInternet forums.

Nyan Cat

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Main article:Nyan Cat

Nyan Cat is the name of aYouTube video, uploaded in April 2011, which became anInternet meme. The video merged a Japanese pop song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" with an animated cartooncat with the body of aPop-Tart, flying through space, and leaving arainbow trail behind it. The video ranked at number 5 on the list of most viewed YouTube videos in 2011.[107]

Keyboard Cat

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Main article:Keyboard Cat

Keyboard Cat is anotherInternet phenomenon. It consists of a video from 1984 of Fatso, a cat wearing a blue shirt and appearing to play an upbeat rhythm on anelectronic keyboard. The video was posted toYouTube under the title "charlie schmidt's cool cats" in June 2007. Schmidt later changed the title to "Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat (The Original)".[108]

Fatso (who died in 1987)[109] was owned (and manipulated in the video) by Charlie Schmidt ofSpokane, Washington, US, and the blue shirt still belonged to Schmidt's cat Fatso. Later, Brad O'Farrell, who was the syndication manager of the video websiteMy Damn Channel, obtained Schmidt's permission to reuse the footage, appending it to the end of ablooper video to "play" that person offstage after the mistake or gaffe in a similar manner as getting the hook in the days ofvaudeville.[110] The appending of Schmidt's video to other blooper and otherviral videos became popular, with such videos usually accompanied with the titlePlay Him Off, Keyboard Cat or a variant. "Keyboard Cat" was ranked No. 2 onCurrent TV's list of 50 Greatest Viral Videos.[111]

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.[112]Schmidt has adopted a new cat "Skinny" or "Keyboard Cat 3.0", which has yet to become popular.

Cats that Look Like Hitler

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Main article:Cats That Look Like Hitler

Cats That Look Like Hitler is a satirical website featuring photographs of cats that bear an alleged resemblance toAdolf Hitler.[113] Most of the cats have a large black splotch underneath their nose, much like the dictator's stumpytoothbrush moustache. The site was founded by Koos Plegt and Paul Neve in 2006,[114] and became widely known after being featured on several television programmes across Europe[114][115][116] and Australia.[117] The site is now only run by Neve. As of February 2013[update], 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.[118]

Everytime you masturbate... God kills a kitten

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Main article:Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten

"Every time youmasturbate... God kills a kitten" is the caption of an image created by a member of the websiteFark in 2002.[119][120] The image features akitten (subsequently referred to as "Cliché Kitty") being chased by twoDomos, and has the tagline "Please, think of the kittens".

I Can Has Cheezburger

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Main article:I Can Has Cheezburger?

It was created in 2007 byEric Nakagawa (Cheezburger), a blogger fromHawaii, and his friend Kari Unebasami (Tofuburger).[121] 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.[122][123] ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal-basedimage macros andlolspeak into mainstream usage and makingInternet memes profitable.[124]

Brussels lockdown

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In 2015, the atmosphere among the community of Brussels, Belgium was tense when the citywas put under the highest level state of emergency immediately following theParis attacks; however, Internet cats were able to cut the tension by taking over the Twitter feed #BrusselsLockdown.[125] 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.[126] 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.[127][128]

Pusheen

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Main article:Pusheen

Pusheen is anotherInternet phenomenon about a cartoon cat. Created in 2010 byClaire Belton, the popularity of using emoji andFacebook stickers led to a rise in Pusheen's popularity. She now has 9 million followers.

Bongo Cat

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Main article:Bongo Cat

Bongo Cat is anotherInternet meme about a cartoon cat that originated on May 7, 2018, when an animated catgif made byTwitter user "@StrayRogue"[129] was edited by Twitter user "@DitzyFlama"[130] to include bongos and the music "Athletic" from theSuper Mario World soundtrack. This cat has since been edited to many other songs, and many different instruments.

Peepee the Cat

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Peepee the cat was the star of acopypasta popularized onTwitter. 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.[131]

Vibing Cat/CatJam

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In April 2020, a video of a white cat from Québec, Canada named Minette bobbing her head as if dancing went viral.[132] In addition to its popularity on social media sites like Youtube and TikTok, the cat was widely shared on livestreaming platformTwitch.tv, where it was enabled as a emote through third-party service BetterTTV on over 200,000 channels.[133] In December 2020, the official YouTube Channel of theInternational Cricket Council posted a video named "Vibing cricketers, vibing cat" showing edited footage of the cat alongside various cricketers dancing to music.[134]

Zoom Cat Lawyer/I'm Not a Cat

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Main article:Zoom Cat Lawyer

"Zoom Cat Lawyer", also known as "I'm Not a Cat", refers to a viral video taken from a livestream of acivil forfeiture hearing being held over the video conferencing applicationZoom inTexas' 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.[135]

Floppa

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Big Floppa

Big Floppa is acaracal from Russia (real name Gregory or Gosha for short) who gained popularity as an internet meme after being posted by his owner on Instagram.[136] 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 themeper se, but always hold Floppa as a centerpoint or personification of something.[137]

Catloaf

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A cat "loafing" with its paws and tail tucked under its body

Catloaf (also spelled as cat loaf/cat-loaf and sometimes known as hovercat,[138] tugboat or loafing[139]) is a term used to describe a cat's sitting position in which its paws and tail are tucked under the body, forming aloaf-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.[140]

American cartoonistB. Kliban had noted the similarity between the shapes of cats andmeatloaves as early as 1975.[141] 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'"group.[142][139]

Cat Breading

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Cat breading (also known as "Breading Cats") is anInternet meme that involves cutting a hole in the center of a slice of bread and then putting the bread around a cat's neck.[143]

Cat walking on the Han River

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Main article:Kkongkkong
Kkongkkong, subject of the South Korean internet meme "cat walking on the Han River"

In South Korea, a 2021 news report's mention of a cat walking on the frozenHan River inSeoul became a meme in 2022.[144][145] In the video,[146]: 0:48  a reporter says the phrase "꽁꽁 얼어붙은 한강 위로 고양이가 걸어 다닙니다" (lit.'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.[98][145]

Banana Cat

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Banana Cat, a cat inside abanana skin, has been notably used by the CanadianOntario New Democratic Party inTikTok campaign ads. A series of videos titled "Banana Cat explains" describe "New Democats'" strategies for addressing issues such as healthcare, education and grocery costs.[147] During a 2024 speech by Ontario New Democratic leaderMarit Stiles about the governingOntario Progressive Conservative Party's legacy, Progressive ConservativeMPPGoldie Ghamari shouted in response "Your legacy is making cat videos on TikTok".[148]

Cat distribution system

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The cat distribution system, as it is known on the internet, is the ad-hoc, passive manner in which owners obtain their cats, and not necessarily on the initiative of the owner. Very often a friendly stray will simply move onto the owner's premises. Whereas people actively and carefully select the breed and individual dog that they want, often paying a sum of money, planning and volition are often absent in the process of acquiring a cat. The term "cat distribution system" came into common use on the internet in 2022 when TikTok user hermes.the.cynic described the process in which cats select their owners.[149][150]

Spoofs

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Bonsai Kitten was asatirical 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 abonsai plant is shaped. It was made by anMIT university student going by thealias of Dr. Michael Wong Chang.[151] The website generated furor after members of thepublic complained toanimal rights organizations, who stated that "while the site's content may be faked, the issue it is campaigning for may createviolence towards animals", 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)petitions to shut the site down or complain to itsISP. The website has been thoroughly debunked bySnopes.com andThe Humane Society of the United States, among other prominent organizations.

Cat media and news websites

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The Catnip Times

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Founded by Laura Mieli in 2012, it has been running full time since 2017.[152] It now has more than a million followers in over 100 countries.[153][154] It contributes articles toAmerican Kennel Club affiliate, AKC Reunite.[155][156][157]

In July 2018, it sponsored the first ever "Meow Meetup" at theStephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. The event was held July 21–22,[158] was estimated to attract around 3000 people. It was the largest cat conference in the Midwest.[159][160]

News by Cats

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Founded by Lithuanian-born Justinas Butkus who lives inWellington,New Zealand, 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.[161] NewsByCats.com has been defunct since some time after March 9, 2022.[162]

The Purrington Post

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The Purrington Post publishes a newsletter. The first, Volume 1, Issue 1 came out on November 1, 2013.[163] According toNatural Pet Science,The Purrington Post averages half a million page views per trimester.[164] It was referred to in September 2018 as an award-winning cat blog by theDow Jones & Company owned financial information serviceMarketWatch.[165] Also that year it was rated No. 3 by KittyCoaching.com in a list of the 12 best cat blogs for that year.[166] It was also highly rated by Cats.com in their Top 35 Cat Blogs You Should Know About list for 2018.[167] The opinion of thePost on cat behavior has been valued enough to be quoted in articles.[168]

See also

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Explanatory notes

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  1. ^According to the owners, October 11, 2011 is not the cat's birth date, but the date of his adoption. His birth date is unknown.

References

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