By: Holly Bailey
Last
year a film festival at the Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center included a seventy
minute long that film that was strictly cat videos. These videos were taken
from clips found on the internet that had been submitted by people videotaping
their cats. The film festival was expecting a few dozen people to show up, but
what happened was 10,000 people arrived to watch this reel of cat videos. The
Walker Art Center wanted to project a giant movie screen on the lawn for a
night, and while people watched the cat videos they could submit which videos
were their favorites. The most popular cat video would then be chosen at the
end of the showing of the video. This seventy minute long video just shows how
these cat videos shown all over the internet are becoming famous over night.
For example, one picture of a dwarf cat that looks grumpy was put online and
the cat became viral on the internet and is now known as t
he famous “Grumpy Cat.” Cat videos are
now becoming more and more popular, resulting in many people videotaping their
cats to submit online and gain viewers. The popularity of these thousands of
cat videos shows how fast a 30 second youtube clip can become viral overnight.
In the article, Holly Bailey states, “He suspects that’s why the cat video
festival has been so popular - it’s a rare opportunity for cat people to
interact with each other and laugh at their pets.” This film festival is causing these “cat lovers” to come
together, so that they can now share their love for their pets with thousands
of other people. This article discusses how these film festivals are becoming
more popular each year, especially the cat video reel because it is attracting
viewer’s attention. Cat videos are going to become more popular each year, as
they are now bringing cat lovers together to express the love for their pets
through these film festivals.
he famous “Grumpy Cat.” Cat videos are
now becoming more and more popular, resulting in many people videotaping their
cats to submit online and gain viewers. The popularity of these thousands of
cat videos shows how fast a 30 second youtube clip can become viral overnight.
In the article, Holly Bailey states, “He suspects that’s why the cat video
festival has been so popular - it’s a rare opportunity for cat people to
interact with each other and laugh at their pets.” This film festival is causing these “cat lovers” to come
together, so that they can now share their love for their pets with thousands
of other people. This article discusses how these film festivals are becoming
more popular each year, especially the cat video reel because it is attracting
viewer’s attention. Cat videos are going to become more popular each year, as
they are now bringing cat lovers together to express the love for their pets
through these film festivals.
(Rachael Cummings)
Wow. As much as I love cats (and the ridiculous things they do) this sounds slightly insane! But maybe it's a good thing. If more people watched cat videos maybe the world would be a better place. Also I heard about a town in Alaska with a CAT FOR A MAYOR??!!? Seriously: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/cat-mayor-alaska-town-15-years-204423536.html
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