To have a good time Worldwide Cat Day, YouTube is paying homage to the animal that made it a family identify: the noble feline.
Go to the YouTube homepage at the moment and you may see a cotton candy-colored kitty exchange the YouTube brand, hypnotizing you in an anime-inspired sequence. Click on on the cat and a blue banner will seem. Choose “Discover” on that banner and you may then be taken to a playlist of YouTube’s most iconic cat movies.
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The checklist begins in 2007 with Keyboard Cat and revisits 20 others, from Grumpy Cat and Nyan cat, to more moderen favorites like Pusheen, Bongo Cat, and the “Cat Vibing To levan Polkka” meme. The newest video on the checklist is a 2022 tribute to Maru, a Japanese kitty who has been on YouTube for 14 years.
For many individuals, watching early animal content material on YouTube was their first time taking part within the form of collective on-line expertise we now participate in day-after-day. These movies helped us perceive what was humorous, not simply to us personally, however to tens of millions of others. The movies are an endearing reflection on web tradition and — as I found whereas rewatching them — are simply as foolish and pleasant at the moment as after they have been first posted to YouTube.
