A cat wearing a short tie plays music on a cat-shaped keyboard ("Pancake Meowsic Video," 185,459 views). A woman performs sun salutations with a cat on her back ("Cat Loves Yoga," 1,539 views). A man slaps two cats on an ironing board to the beat of "Atmosphere" ("Cat Slap Joy Division," 357,605 views; watch this one). (Now, I mean.) Kittens try to keep up with an accelerating treadmill ("Treadmill Kittens," 3.4 million views). A fat cat walks on an underwater treadmill ("Fat Cat Walking on Underwater Treadmill," 133,434 views). Two cats cuff at a treadmill in perplexed inquisition ("Cats Try to Understand Treadmill," 1.9 million views). Search YouTube for "cat treadmill" and see how many results there are. Or, actually, don't.
\n\nWriting that paragraph took more than an hour. To continue the catalog for a page would've taken weeks. But if one has set out to say something definitive about the relationship between cats and the internet, it's important not to be delayed indefinitely by internet cats.
\n\nThe obvious place to begin an inquiry into the internet cat is with Maru, the most famous feline on the internet. Maru's shtick, in brief: Maru gets into a box ("大きな箱とねこ," 8.1 million…
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