A Michael Broad Blog
“A good cat video is one with a tragic ending, a devastating one. The reason is, firstly, because I wanted to amuse myself; to put the cats in crazy situations. I also saw that sad videos generate more engagement because they elicit the compassion of viewers.” – Charles, a creator of tragic-ending anthropomorphized (humanized) …
You may have heard that there is a new meme on the Internet and it concerns Taylor Swift’s song August. The song is currently trending and I guess people know that she likes cats and lives with them so they are grabbing their cat under the armpits and spinning around while capturing the “fun” …
I have never seen this before and it is very cute only it does bring to mind the wrong kind of mental image. Sorry if that upsets some people. I have a called it a new cat meme. What is a meme? It is this: ‘an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous …
NEWS AND COMMENT: The Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard defamation trial which is being broadcast to the world from the court room in Fairfax County, Virginia is perfect material for imaginative video makers who’ve used it to create videos of all kinds including using domestic cats to mock this unseemly contest between two high-profile …
Do domestic cats protect hens’ eggs because they know that they are fragile? The videos on TikTok might give this impression when you push the egg partly underneath them as we see in the video on this page. The videos can be interpreted in different ways depending on your beliefs. They are ambivalent. In …
Bingus is a Sphynx or a Don Sphynx, both hairless cats which went viral back in March of 2020, thanks to an Instagram video. Bingus is far more likely to be a Sphynx, a breed with its origin in Canada. The Don Sphynx comes from Russia. That answers the question and I could stop …
‘Cartoon Cat’ is a modern creation. We don’t know whether he’s masculine or feminine so the character is probably an “it”. I’m gonna say he’s masculine. A conventional approach. As he’s a cartoon character he has to be fake in that sense because he only exists in cartoons, on the Internet. But he is …
It has become the currency of internet social media: the liquid cat meme. If you are unfamiliar with it, here is a crash course. A ‘meme’ in my words is a trend by internet users who like to repeat something that they like the look of or sound of. They enjoy republishing the image …
