By: Vickie J. Rubinson
According to TIME magazine, the Internet may have officially run out of ideas. These days, people only use the Internet to search for pictures of adorable animals. Unfortunately, most of them are cats.
There's Lolcats, Rolcats, Garfield Minus Garfield and Maru, the cat with a blog. And now, thanks to a clip of a humiliated feline forced to play the piano, there is another one to add to the mix: the website called Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat.
Corey Johnson, a 29-year-old computer programmer, says he and his friends have a knack for picking the next Internet sensation. If they encounter something good on the Internet, they like to "call" whether or not it's going to take off. Then Johnson saw a particularly hilarious clip of someone falling down and then being "played off stage" by a cat with a keyboard. "I said this is going to be big." he says. "My friends were like, 'Nah, it's just a cat.'"
But Johnson knew something his friends didn't: the Internet LOVES cats. Especially cats who are dressed in embarassing outfits and forced to perform human activities (such as eating dinner with a fork). Suddenly, keyboard cat started popping up all over YouTube.
The musical feline had become a star and Johnson decided to aggregate its videos on a blog. Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat is barely a month old but it already has over 30 videos and gets about 20,000 hits a day. Meow! Take that, Morris.
According to TIME magazine, the Internet may have officially run out of ideas. These days, people only use the Internet to search for pictures of adorable animals. Unfortunately, most of them are cats.
There's Lolcats, Rolcats, Garfield Minus Garfield and Maru, the cat with a blog. And now, thanks to a clip of a humiliated feline forced to play the piano, there is another one to add to the mix: the website called Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat.
Corey Johnson, a 29-year-old computer programmer, says he and his friends have a knack for picking the next Internet sensation. If they encounter something good on the Internet, they like to "call" whether or not it's going to take off. Then Johnson saw a particularly hilarious clip of someone falling down and then being "played off stage" by a cat with a keyboard. "I said this is going to be big." he says. "My friends were like, 'Nah, it's just a cat.'"
But Johnson knew something his friends didn't: the Internet LOVES cats. Especially cats who are dressed in embarassing outfits and forced to perform human activities (such as eating dinner with a fork). Suddenly, keyboard cat started popping up all over YouTube.
The musical feline had become a star and Johnson decided to aggregate its videos on a blog. Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat is barely a month old but it already has over 30 videos and gets about 20,000 hits a day. Meow! Take that, Morris.
1 comment:
great internet fad. It's really amazing because this thing has been on pretty much every news network and keyboard cat even has its own dedicated website.
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