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Standing Cat is a tabby cat named Rocky who was filmed continuing upright on his hind legs on a bed. Months afterward it was uploaded to YouTube, the prune went viral in April 2010 for its display of an animal in a human being-like stance, garnering much attention on the French web.

Origin

On November 6th, 2009, French YouTuber DaisYannou^[1] uploaded a 37 2d video of her cat, Rocky, continuing on his hind legs in order to go a meliorate look at something off photographic camera. Although the viewer never sees what Rocky is looking at, he exhibits anthropomorphic behavior by standing like a biped and fifty-fifty raising his front correct paw a couple of times nigh as if he were gesturing. Paired with Yoko Kanno'due south song "Cats on Mars"^[8] from the soundtrack of anime series Cowboy Bebop, the video gained over 7.2 million views and 4,600 comments over the side by side eight years.

Precursor: Bipedal Cats

Despite Rocky being deemed "standing true cat," at that place are dozens of videos featuring bipedal cats on YouTube, with some of the earliest instances being segments from Japanese Idiot box shows uploaded as early as 2006. In Apr 2010, Urlesque^[9] compiled a series of 10 other videos of cats standing in this manner.

Spread

The video initially was express to existence shared amid French net users on Facebook, gaining over one-half a million views in the first four months. Standing True cat was start exposed to a larger global audience months later on on Apr quaternary, 2010 when the video was re-posted to BuzzFeed.^[2] From there, the YouTube prune was retweeted and shared via Facebook, eventually receiving coverage from a number of other internet culture blogs including The Daily What^[3], Huffington Postal service^[iv], Geekologie^[x] and Boing Boing^[5], amongst others. On Apr 8th, a Facebook fan page^[11] for Rocky was created, gaining 1500 likes past Nov 2012.

The same month, Standing Cat attracted some mainstream attention from the French news site Le Post ^[half-dozen], where the uploader, Daisy, was interviewed well-nigh the video. She stated that Rocky, who was 2 years old at the fourth dimension, was attempting to await at the birds perched just outside the window, and that she and the cat's co-owner Yann did not teach the cat how to stand.

Interview with Daisy

In 2010, Know Your Meme's database moderator Tomberry interviewed Daisy, who explained the creation of the video every bit well as her response to it going viral.

Q: Let'south get back in time to November 2009, shall we. You take already given a lot of data in the "Le Post" commodity but would y'all please put it back into context? What motivated your desire to motion picture your cat, Rocky, in such an awkward pose and, particularly, to post information technology to YouTube afterward? The same way, what were your spectators' reactions at that fourth dimension?

A: I filmed my cat simply because I found his pose amusing. I had done hundreds of photos of him, and lots of videos besides, so actually information technology wasn't something out of the ordinary for me to film him, even at that moment. But when he began to stand on his back legs, I wanted to take it on camera at whatever cost, because I thought it was very unusual. I so showed the video to my friends and family unit and they adored it, too as they were amazed by it.

Q: Last April, your video got a nifty flux of visitors and viewers, following its repost on Buzzfeed, entitled Standing True cat is Watching You. What was your reaction as a upshot of this sudden fame and web interest in your video?

A: It was sorta unbelievable. The video had already been posted for a somewhat short catamenia of fourth dimension on Youtube, just I didn't really reference information technology as rightly as I wanted to, and so at that place were very few visits, and not as often. And suddenly, a large fizz! Information technology was kind of cool. I especially enjoyed people'due south comments on it, mainly those regarding their "concern" near a cat species' evolution and and so forth! Then, chop-chop, French and strange TV stations started dissemination my video, which was as much unbelievable!

Q: Practise you know about LOLcats? Exercise you recall it can take been of whatsoever influence, either to you and the filming process with your cat, especially apropos the music rails (Cats on Mars – CowBoy BeBop OST) you lot added which kind of embodies the weird state of affairs and cats, or to the people interest in it?

A: Yep, I do know most that website, and I really like the pictures, being myself a true cat lover. Simply I don't think information technology would have influenced me because my chief hobby is to have my cat doing foreign things on photographic camera! Cats have that special souvenir to do funny things without them knowing it! If I added a music track, information technology'due south because, without sound, a video is less funny. So I searched for a track that would requite a more than offbeat side to the video, and my brother gave me a hand by saying "Hey, do you lot remember about that CowBoy BeBop track?". I establish it to be a perfect fit for the video, and I quickly realized that, reading the Youtube's comments, it was indeed a good pick!

Q: Yous must have noticed. Your video gave nascence to a smashing amount of parodies, picturing your cat as "Super Kitty", making him explode or having him every bit a Musketeer and many other things. What do yous think almost those parodies? Do you encounter them every bit a tribute to your video?
The same manner, You asked Youtube to take downwardly at least 3 of these parodies, for the time being, due to copyright claims coming from you lot. Can you lot add together some more detail apropos it?

A: I do not like seeing people copy my video as it is and reupload it on another Youtube account. Following the buzz, dozens of people stole my video and reposted information technology, some even claiming to ain the original one! I don't know what motivates people to practise this, and information technology deeply unnerves me. And so I forced the 1 I consider as being simply plagiarism to be taken down. Among those videos, there may have been some that pretended they were parodies, just I didn't encounter it that way.

Apropos the ones that take made a peachy work, like the musketeer one, here I'm gladly leaving it, because the creator is respecting the initial video. I don't know if we tin really talk about a "tribute" per se, but they are great videos anyhow, which make many people laugh, and then I don't see why I would ask for deleting them.

Q: In the "Le Post" article, you lot talked almost another video you were going to post, in which your cat is sitted in a weird manner. Can you lot tell the states more than about when that video is going to be posted? Do you lot think it will attract as much attention as your previous video?

A: Actually I near forgot near information technology! It'southward a video filmed at the aforementioned moment, unless in that case he is sitted, and one time over again information technology's hilarious. If I forgot, information technology'south mainly because, following the initial video'south fame, I have received and am still receiving solicitations everyday for interviews, or to reuse my video for TV shows and and then on… And information technology's a great painstacking process to be my cat'due south impresario!! On the other hand, I'm certain it won't go the same interest. I mean, yeah that video is funny also. Only, in the first one, what my cat was doing was more amazing, challenging the laws of physics as some comments pointed information technology out! But why not, I have to piece of work on information technology.

Q: Last but not to the lowest degree, a question that many people are asking themselves. What the hell is Rocky looking at throughout the window?

A: Ahah! Do I take to uncover that mystery?! In earnest, I don't know myself! In my humble opinion, birds! Really, Rocky is staring at a small window, too loftier on the wall for him to lookout man through it without doing some acrobatic maneuvers. And, because this window leads to a rooftop view, we tin can meet birds passing by, flying, which of course, captivate him so much!

Q: Give thanks you very much for your time and for answering these questions.

It was my pleasance ^^

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Diverse Examples

A handful of remixes of the original Standing True cat video can be found on YouTube, many of which photoshop clothes and other accessories on to the true cat to make him appear as if he is in the costume of a popular character or portraying a stereotypical fashion trend.

Puss In Boots

Among the most popular remixes of Continuing Cat was uploaded past YouTuber Freddie Wong, who revamped Rock into the Shrek graphic symbol Puss in Boots in CGI. The video has gained most 5 million views as of November 2012. Following the success of Wong's Puss in Boots video, Know Your Meme as well conducted an interview with the YouTuber most its creation.

Q: How did y'all find out nigh Standing Cat? Where & when did you showtime see it online?

A: I was linked to the video from the Somethingawful Forums nigh a week dorsum – more specifically this version of information technology. I like this version for the cut to the brighter closeup to punctuate the music. It sent chills down my spine.

Q: You give props to Adobe After Effects as choice of weapon; how long did information technology accept you to edit & publish this video? And how long have you been editing videos in full general?

A: Originally, we were simply going to put the boots on the cat, which just took twenty minutes. Then Brandon, the other guy behind my channel, suggested we add a chapeau. So a belt. Then a sword. Then to make the sword swing around. And and so to supplant the GTA poster with a cat meme. And so to add together ceiling cat. And then to get downstairs and catch my roommates cat to add him. So to go to Olvera St. in LA to buy a small-scale true cat guitar and pocket-sized cat hat (if you need cat sized, Mexican themed props, this is the place to go). We basically pulled an all nighter for a cat video, which we're more proud of than any terminal minute essay we fabricated for college.

Q: And your friend's cat, Plato (the mariachi cat). How did you work that into the video? …Is Plato capable of continuing on two feet as well?

A: We felt the video needed music, only at approximately ii in the forenoon, we decided some other cat should play that music. Plato is in fact capable of standing on his ii anxiety like a lemur, merely has never done it for as long as Continuing True cat has, who probably holds some kind of True cat World Record.

Q: Like you've mentioned in video description, those boots and mariachi aesthetics wait really appropriate with the standing cat. If y'all remember, how did this idea come up about? What were you thinking?

A: Someone commented on some other Standing Cat video asking the uploader to "add boots" to the cat, and a lot of people liked this comment. Nosotros looked around the internet and felt that the men for the task were the ones in the mirror. You gotta give the people what they want, similar that quote from Lawrence of Arabia: "The Turks pay me a golden treasure, even so I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!" …Then that was pretty much the thinking.

Q: Noticed there'south a couple of other internet-famous cats making guest appearance in the video. If you had to choice your "favorite LOLcat", which one would information technology be?

A: My favorite LOLcat isn't really a true cat, just the Bucket Walrus (*) is my favorite affair of all fourth dimension. Brandon is partial to the original "God kills a kitten" (*) cat.

Q: In all serious seriousness, we're talking about cats that can stand (and fifty-fifty walk) on their own, like people practice. Is this something we should be wary of? What are your thoughts on bipedal cats?