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In 2004, 17-year-old Steve Ibsen took photos of his cat Kayla and realized that if he animated the images, he could make it look like his cat was dancing. In one take, he recorded a song to accompany the animation: “Cat! / I’m a kitty cat! / And I dance, dance, dance / And I dance, dance, dance.”
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YouTube didn’t exist yet, so he uploaded the animation to his website, and then-popular flash animation sites like Albino Blacksheep reached out asking to share his work. Kitty Cat Dance was arguably one of the first viral videos of the era, but as it grew in popularity, it also became easier to steal people cropped out Ibsen’s watermark and added their own. In the Wild West of early social media, he couldn’t prove his ownership of the Kitty Cat Dance, even though he had all the original files, not to mention his cat, Kayla, a creature blissfully unaware of her own virality. He saw people on the streets wearing T-shirts they bought at Hot Topic, which feat
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Steve Ibsen’s cat Kayla was the star of an internet meme called “Kitty Cat Dance,” created in 2004. (Screenshot via YouTube)
Seventeen years ago, Steve Ibsen was getting ready to leave his house when he noticed his cat, Kayla, sprawled on the bed. Amused at her dance-like pose, Ibsen snapped a series of photographs of the cat.
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