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The soft chewy grime that peels off when you scrape the bottom of the barrel after you've poured out all the memes.
Monday, September 18, 2017
How much does the new iPhone X cost? An Arm and a Leg, that is how much!
Thursday, July 20, 2017
Continued: Why Cats Are So Popular On The Internet?
- Quoted from Cheezburger
"It's July 2017, and when you type the words 'cat video' into YouTube, there are 90,000,000 hits. 90,000,000. That's more than one cat video for every person living in Germany. It seems like an impressive number of videos – until, just as a comparison, you type in 'dog video' and discover that there are 141,000,000 dog videos. Suddenly the 90,000,000 cat videos don't seem quite as remarkable. And yet, cute as dog videos are, it's images and videos of cats that go viral. It's cats that cause the most hype, cats that fill our Facebook feeds – but why? Why do we enjoy cat videos and memes so much?"
Cats cheer us up
According to a
study carried out in 2015 by Jessica Gall Myrick of the Media School
at Indiana University, in which nearly 7,000 people took part, many
participants reported feeling less
anxiety, sadness, and annoyance after watching cat videos. This
seems reasonable, as seeing a cat get a box stuck on its head or get
spooked by a cucumber is clearly enough to cheer anyone up,
especially in an era in which global updates of atrocities such as
terror attacks, natural disasters, and shootings fill our Facebook
feeds and news apps minutes after they happen. Everyone needs a
little light relief and for many people, that relief is found in
watching cat videos – but if it were only a case of improving one's
mood, then a video of a rabbit in a hammock or a dog in a dress could
potentially do the job just as well. There must be something more,
then, that makes cat videos stand out from videos of other funny or
cute animals.
The acrobatic nature of cats
In comparison to animals such as dogs or rabbits, cats are significantly more acrobatic and agile. Whether you're watching in awe as a cat leaps onto and balances on a curtain pole or collapsing in hysterics as you watch a cat trying desperately to run fast enough to stay on a treadmill, watching these creatures cavort around is amusing in a way that, somehow, little else is. Perhaps many cat videos are so entertaining because often the cats just happen to be photographed or filmed while they are simply doing their thing – they're not
performing for the camera.
A spot of schadenfreude?
Cats are not only
unlikely to perform for the camera, they are also unlikely to do
anything they don’t want to – and if you do something they don’t
like, you'll probably know all about it. Perhaps the fact that cats
are often aloof and somewhat snooty is actually part of the reason
why making them into silly memes and videos is such fun. If you go
away for two weeks for a holiday in the sun, you may well come back
to a cat that gives you the cold shoulder and is undeniably
disgruntled that you left him for so long. Dogs, on the other hand,
are more likely to bound right up to you and lick you all over,
simply happy to see you home. Could this fundamental difference
between the two animals be part of the reason why watching a cat get
stuck in a box or fall off a table is that little bit more pleasing
than seeing a dog do the same? Could it be that there is an element
of schadenfreude in watching a cat get itself into a sticky
situation, that there is some little part of us that is pleased to
see this somewhat haughty creature taken down a peg or two? A cat's
attempt to then shake it all off, to pretend that they meant to
fall in the bath or down the back of the sofa as part of a plan that
you are too stupid to understand, somehow makes it even funnier.
Cats' facial expressions and body language
There's no way
around it: cats make the best faces. Whether they're looking at you
with comically large round eyes or appearing to turn up the corner of
their mouth at you in disdain, cats' expressions make them
wonderfully photogenic. The millions upon millions of results that a
Google search for 'cat meme' brings up confirms this. There are
photos of cats looking guilty, cats looking happy, cats looking
grumpy – this one goes without saying! – and
cats with every other expression under the sun. The fact that they're
so expressive it is, of course, part of the reason why it's such fun
to add text or a voiceover to give them a voice – preferably a
comical one. The juxtaposition of the cool, aloof nature of a cat and
a silly caption or overly dramatic commentary is a priceless
combination.
An online community
Since most cat
owners find their cats so entertaining, it is understandable that
they want to share their stories, photos, and videos with like-minded
people. As most cat owners don't put their cats on a leash and take
them out into the big wide world, it makes sense that they need at
least a virtual space in which to do this. As BuzzFeed's Jack
Shepherd put it, 'The
internet is one giant, virtual cat park' – a space in which cat
owners and fans can come together in the same way that dog owners
might meet in a dog park. With that in mind, it's not surprising that
cats are more popular online than dogs – dog enthusiasts have both
a physical and a virtual outlet for their passion, but cat fans have
just the one!
A complex issue
Understanding why cats have taken over the internet is not as straightforward as it might seem, then. There are various feasible explanations, but none of them is really any more convincing or enlightening than the others. The answer is probably out there somewhere, protected by feline guards who, one day, when the time is right, will step aside and reveal to their adoring public the details of their impressive online reign.
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
How many cats is too much?
How Many Cats Makes You Crazy Cat Lady?
There is certainly a point in which cat ownership takes a crazy turn. But it doesn't happen over night.Usually, cats are brought in from the street or rescued from a shelter, and repeat. A fairly common situation is that a woman turns into a Crazy Cat Lady as she collects more and more cats out of the kindness of her heart, but it turns into a hoarding situation with 35 cats living in a tiny house and the neighbors complaining that it smells.
So how many cats is to much?
The general consensus on this matter is that if you have to ask, then it is probably too much. If you have 7 cats, but are able to easily handle it, you won't really ask many people if you have too many cats. But if you have 7 cats and handling just 1 is too much for you, then yes, 7 is too much. Back it down a bit.
Depends on the cat, depends on the person
Just like no two people are alike, no two cats are alike either. Some require much more attention and care than others. Some are very easy going while some scratch and hiss at everything. Cats can be like that too :)
So stop worrying about it, and if you are worried about it, then you probably have too many cats.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Why Are There So Many Cats on the Internet?
It is a good question. Why are there so many cats on the internet? Seems that when you research most SEO topics, the examples are provided in the form of cats.
Gizmodo has an interesting article stating that cat owners use the internet like dog owners use dog parks. As dogs get walked around the neighborhood and provide a bit of a social anchor to their owners, cats stay at home and do nothing, usually hiding from when company is over and generally being cats at everything they do. So suddenly being able to share a pic of your cat is the only way to share the pet owning experience.
While this simple answer sort of explains why dogs don't rule the internet, it doesn't really answer as to why so many people without cats enjoy staring at their videos and pics.
Some studies speculate that because humans act very self conscious around any camera, because of understanding how it ends up on the internet. On the other hand, cats really have no clue on the internet, so watching their free and unrestricted behavior is a refreshing exploration of emotions that we can't get otherwise.
Users who spent a few minutes watching cat videos seem to be in a better mood than prior and more prone to happiness the hours after.
Cat videos have become so synonymous, that when someone is wasting time on the internet, they can be said to just be "watching cat videos" and everyone knows what that means.
So why do cats rule the internet. Maybe they know and just don't care to tell us.
Gizmodo has an interesting article stating that cat owners use the internet like dog owners use dog parks. As dogs get walked around the neighborhood and provide a bit of a social anchor to their owners, cats stay at home and do nothing, usually hiding from when company is over and generally being cats at everything they do. So suddenly being able to share a pic of your cat is the only way to share the pet owning experience.
While this simple answer sort of explains why dogs don't rule the internet, it doesn't really answer as to why so many people without cats enjoy staring at their videos and pics.
Some studies speculate that because humans act very self conscious around any camera, because of understanding how it ends up on the internet. On the other hand, cats really have no clue on the internet, so watching their free and unrestricted behavior is a refreshing exploration of emotions that we can't get otherwise.
Users who spent a few minutes watching cat videos seem to be in a better mood than prior and more prone to happiness the hours after.
Cat videos have become so synonymous, that when someone is wasting time on the internet, they can be said to just be "watching cat videos" and everyone knows what that means.
So why do cats rule the internet. Maybe they know and just don't care to tell us.
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