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Summary

Nyan Cat, a.k.a Pop Tart Cat, is an 8 bit animated GIF of a cat flying in a Pop Tart, leaving behind a rainbow as it flies.

Origins

• On April 2, 2011, Chris Torres (PRGuitarman) posted the original animated gif on LOL-COMICS, a comics site. Torres' drew inspiration from his own Russian Blue cat, Marty.

• On April 5, 2011, "saraj00n" posted a YouTube video of the image, set to Daniwell Aidn's UTAU song Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya. A popular theme on Japanese video sharing site Nico Nico Douga is to set anime figures bobbing to the song, which was uploaded January 31, 2010.

• Sometime afterward, Huy Hong created the Nyan Cat website, essentially a loop of Nyan Cat with Daniwell Aidn’s Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya.

Well, first of all, the actual cat itself is based off my own Russian Blue, named Marty (from Back to the Future) I love drawing cat comics on my site and wanted to do a special animated sprite similar to the one here The night before I posted it, I was doing a Red Cross charity drawing Livestream and asked a few people what they wanted. One person said "Cat" and the other said "Pop Tart!" so I combined the two and came up with this That night I pixelated it because I wanted it as an avatar. Posted it online without a second thought. A few days later I got word it was on Youtube and it exploded from there!

Current status

In just over three months, the YouTube video gained more than 25 million views. By November, 2011, the video had 50 million views.

Nyan Cat drama

Huy Hong and Chris Torres currently dispute the origins of the meme, with Hong claiming responsibility for the meme's popularity, and Torres claiming that Hong is "SINGLE HANDEDLY STEALING THE WORK OF OTHERS", proving, once again, that internet cats are serious business.

Fake DMCA filed

The original video was off YouTube on the morning of June 28, 2011, but it got put back up that afternoon. It turned out that someone had filed a fake DMCA against the video, claiming to be Torres. This resulted in RAGE from fans, and prompted this blog post from him, and he successfully counter-filed against the DMCA claim.

Facts

Images

	The video's YouTube page was modified so the regular slider and progress bar are replaced with Nyan Cat. This Easter egg remained until a troll filed a fake DMCA, claiming to be Torres.	The video's YouTube page was modified so the regular slider and progress bar are replaced with Nyan Cat. This Easter egg remained until a troll filed a fake DMCA, claiming to be Torres.	Dark side of the nyan
The video's YouTube page was modified so the regular slider and progress bar are replaced with Nyan Cat. This Easter egg remained until a troll filed a fake DMCA, claiming to be Torres.	Dark side of the nyan	Dark side of the nyan	The original Nyan Cat video
The original Nyan Cat video	Paula Deen rides Nyan Cat (from a specialty Tumblr)	Nyan Cat (8bit NES 2A03 REMIX)	Don't let this happen to you.
Don't let this happen to you.	Nyan whale	Nyan whale	Chris Torres in a Nyan Cat t-shirt
Nyan Cat Van	Nyan Cat is a formidable opponent
She's not modeling	Mark Zuckerberg, meet Nyan Cat	Mark Zuckerberg, meet Nyan Cat	nyan cat IRL
Mark Zuckerberg, meet Nyan Cat	Just in case you can read music	nyan cat IRL	The group LulzSec taunted PBS with this picture: "All Your Base Are Belong to LulzSec" complete with a Nyan Cat
Just in case you can read music	FurAffinity version.	The group LulzSec taunted PBS with this picture: "All Your Base Are Belong to LulzSec" complete with a Nyan Cat	Fanart by Sandwich Cat
FurAffinity version.	Fanart by Sandwich Cat	Fanart by Sandwich Cat

Videos

Related Pages

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