What is the hot search on the cat's paw cup? Cats are Internet tyrants.

A cherry red cat claw cup stirred the spring water of the Internet. Seeing that someone forgot to eat and sleep for it, but also fighting for it, the onlookers shouted: I didn't expect it.

But think about it, since the birth of the Internet, various forums and social platforms have long been virtual paradise for cat slaves, and pet cats have also been honored as "unofficial mascots of the Internet" because of their face value and traffic. It seems that in nature, cats have superior reproductive ability and adaptability, and also take the lead in staking on the Internet to conquer social platforms, animation websites and video platforms. The cross-border strength of cats in nature and culture is really a claw that covers the sky.

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Net bully cat

Cats occupied the Internet, even the inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners Lee, said: I didn't expect it. How did they leave an indelible footprint on the Internet?

In fact, in the 1990s, cat content was the main content of e-mail sharing. In the new century, on Youtube, a well-known video platform, the videos of pajamas and Nicholas Rodney Drake, which are as long as 3 1 second, have become the oldest cat videos on the platform. The publisher is steve chen, the founder of Youtube, and the release date is May 22nd, 2005. The following year, "Puppies and Cats", in which a group of puppies besieged a black cat, became the first viral cat video (as of the beginning of March 20 19, the number of views reached160,000).

In nature, the first person takes the initiative, and it is also a process for cats to become cyber bullies. The original picture of the cat is called "LOLcats", which was first spread in 4Chan community where technical elites gathered in 2005. At that time, a weekly "Cat Festival" was set up to celebrate by distributing pictures of cats with words. However, at first, teasing cats was not a gathering for all cat lovers, but more to show the interests of small evils through pictures of cats.

But then these cats successfully jumped out of the elite circle and went to the sea of Wang Yang.

| "Cheeseburger Funny Cat" became the pioneer of the first wave to conquer the Internet.

This accidental opportunity happened to a man named Eric Nakagawa in Hawaii. June 5438+October 2007 10, after a bad day, Eric asked his friends to send him something to make him happy, so his good friend Kari Unebasami sent him some funny pictures of cats. Eric posted one of the photos with the words "Can I have this cheeseburger" on his website, but he didn't expect to get 375,000 hits in just three months. The following year, after the website was sold to media entrepreneur Ben Hugh, the number of registered people reached 8,000 and the number of hits reached 2 million every day.

At this point, the cat content quickly found the target group. At first, middle-aged women were enthusiastic but not proficient in technology, and later they were "waste wood". The latter has become the productivity of the crazy growth of the cat map. As a result, cat content is in full swing, all over Twitter, animation and Youtube；; Celebrities come forth in large numbers all over the world. After funny cats, there are violent cats, Lil Bub cats, Maru cats, colonel cats and so on.

| Tada sauce is a female cat who has become an "internet celebrity" because of her violent expression.

By 20 15, the content of cats has reached its peak, and there are 2 million videos related to cats on Youtube, with an average of 12000 views, exceeding other platforms; Flickr.com, a well-known photo sharing platform, has 2.5 million pictures of cats with the theme of "Tiger". From the internet to reality, there is a craze for raising cats everywhere. Online celebrity cats sign movie agreements and donate money to charity. Their furry appearance occupies the internet and shelves to promote their own clothing and coffee brands. The New York Times has discovered that the cat map has become an important wall brick of the Internet; After counting 6.5 billion pictures of cats, a wave of CNN editors who love dogs wrote an angry title: "The net cat never dies".

Useless cat

The story of online cat culture is exactly the same as that of domestic cats. They have superior counter-measures ability, ranking first in the world. The size of nearly 600 million cats makes this wave of pop culture bring its own traffic-almost everyone who uses the Internet is related to cats to some extent. Perhaps Eric's "Cheeseburger Cat" in his blog is accidental, but it is undeniable that cat culture does have a solid and broad mass base.

The internet makes cats winners. With the popularity of cameras and social networks, human society has captured the image of pet cats on the largest scale. In Britain, 6.5438+0.4 million selfie photos are uploaded to the Internet every day, and 3.8 million cat photos are uploaded.

In reality, urbanization also benefits cats. Cities are not only diligent in making garbage every day, stray cats no longer have to risk their lives to prey on a mouse, and domestic cats are increasingly adapting to the carefree life indoors. If they go outdoors to hide, they often come and go without a trace, which is not only difficult to observe, but also difficult to take pictures.

These are not enough to explain why humans are fascinated by cats. And whether people control cats or cats control people?

Although the answers to these questions are always inconsistent, it is generally believed that when cats gradually faded away from wildness and humans stopped nomadic, cats first came into our lives out of a very practical and ancient Covenant-because cats can kill mice and protect granaries. In exchange, they live a comfortable life in human homeland and will not be harassed by the enemy like other predators.

Egyptians more than 3,000 years ago should be the ancestors of today's Internet "cat worship". At that time, the Egyptian government issued a law prohibiting annoying cats, and even more prohibiting insulting cats. When the Egyptians were in famine, they would rather starve than eat cats. If there is a fire, the Egyptians will save the cat first and then grab the furniture. If the cat at home dies, the whole family will shave their eyebrows and mourn for the cat for 70 days. They also mummified cats in the hope that they would live forever.

The goddess basta, who symbolizes fertility, reproduction and family protection, is an upright cat. At the peak, 700,000 people went to the temple to pay their respects.

History is always strikingly similar. Even if the cat's life is over, you can still see the cat god online.

After several years of investigation, Abigail Tucker, a popular science writer, found that the relationship between people and cats cannot be completely considered from practicality. Compared with dogs, "we first domesticated dogs because they can warn, transport and hunt." Moreover, with our life changing from nomadic life to farming life and later urban life, the role of dogs has also changed from hounds and sheepdogs to guide dogs, war dogs, comfort dogs and rescue dogs.

Colonel, cats are not for fighting.

So, what about cats? Abigail found that, except for "Indonesians use cats to beg for rain" and "a musical instrument made of cat skin is popular in Japan", their practical value is not worth mentioning at all.

In this case, why can cats be tolerated by villagers in the Stone Age, worshipped by ancient Egyptians, and still be popular on the Internet today after 1980s and 1990s? Why can useless cats stand the test of time?

Masterpiece cat

Leonardo da Vinci said that every cat is a masterpiece, as if every cat is the smile of Mona Lisa.

Writers and poets of all ages, once they fell in love with cats, often consciously or unconsciously avoided the biological fact that cats are carnivorous cats and preferred aesthetic observation.

Therefore, in their works, the cat's eyes are deep, from which we can see the ancient wildness and religious mystery; A series of movements such as the rotation, positioning and tilting of cat ears are soft and magical; A cat's beard is necessary to make the cat more beautiful, proud and solemn; And the cat's gait. They always walk on their left legs first, and then use their right. This way of moving forward is very elegant. This elegance is a cowboy coming from the yellow sand in the western film; When walking and jumping suddenly changes, it is like an assassin walking at night in a martial arts movie.

Whether in the living room or cemetery, whether sleeping or walking, cats are not only a symbol of tenderness and tranquility, but also tenderness and tranquility itself. Don't compare cats to philosophers, because they know that great wisdom is stupid. Baudelaire, a senior cat lover, warned-don't complain that cats are wild and come and go without a trace, because cats only associate with mature humans; Don't complain that they don't smile at you, it's not human nature.

Without ordinary cats, it is as difficult to associate cats with ordinary people and followers as it is to associate cats with obedience and loyalty.

Therefore, the obsession with cats is not that cats are useful to humans, but that cats are so cute. The face of a cat has both the ferocity of a predator and the innocence of a child; Cats are omnipotent models, and the cat-loving groups at home and abroad are mainly women, which inspires their passion to take care of young children.

But since it's cute, why not just let human Mengbao be a cyber bully? Abigail finally found that the core of cats becoming winners in the competition lies in their wild hunter nature. The integrity of a dog's life benefits from its close interaction with human beings, while a cat's life does not. Just like in real life, they are still extremely isolated, wild and heartless. The cuteness of cute dogs lies in exertion, and the cuteness of cute cats lies in inaction.

Therefore, as soon as you open the door, there are a pair of lovely eyes at home, waiting for you to caress. In fact, through natural beauty and behavior evolution, you have a subtle control. As writer Montaigne said: When I play with mother cat, who knows whether it is killing my time or I am killing it?

Xianjue cat

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Influenced by the global cat-sucking phenomenon and the urbanization process in China, the number of cat slaves in China has also greatly increased, and the influence of "cat economics" related to cats has also extended from Japan and the United States to China. According to the report of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2065+06, the number of pet cats in China reached 5,865,438+million, second only to 80.6 million in the United States. Tencent Research Institute released the "Study on the Secondary Economic Phenomenon of Chinese Cats", which showed that the number of cat addicts in China reached 50 million in 2065438+2008. Although there is still a gap of170,000 with the number of dogs, raising cats is experiencing "rocket growth". Many people predict that cats will occupy China and its Internet after they have occupied developed countries such as the United States and Japan.

At this time, I always think of a story told by william faulkner, a senior cat slave: In the past, the rulers of this world were cats, and they had a so-called civilized government. But wars, famines, infectious diseases, injustice, stupidity, love of power and insatiable greed in the world make them unbearable. In order to find a solution, the cleverest cats got together and held a meeting, but they still couldn't find a solution, and finally they had to give up the throne to mankind. Cats retreat to a secondary position, but still enjoy their own territory and continue to look at human beings with eyes that they never forget.

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