History Main / TheInternetIsForCats

This can be due to SmallReferencePools of {{meme|tic mutation}}s. While it's true many Internet memes are animal related, most actually aren't. That being said, this is very much TruthInTelevision, and albeit not to the extent it once was; cute animals (including, but not limited to, cats) are always popular on the Internet, and while no longer the mainstay of memes and Website/YouTube they once were, they are still incredibly popular. Relatedly, there are few things that get internet denizens more [[InternetCounterattack riled up]] than [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals animal abusers]].

* Some anti-virus bots in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' are bowing to a video of a cat on Website/YouTube.

* ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' sees Ralph enter an {{expy}} of Website/YouTube and marveling at the high volume of cat videos.

** When customizing the Laptop furniture item, the [[https://dodo.ac/np/images/9/99/Laptop_NH_Pattern_3.png "Web Browsing"]] screen variant depicts a Website/YouTube video showing a house cat playing with a toy (and consequently inducing FurryConfusion given that anthropomorphic cats can move into the player's town).

* ''Webcomic/{{Gronk}}'' demonstrated this with Dale introducing Gronk to Website/{{Youtube}} cat videos.

** In "At the Car Wash", Dr. Doofenshmirtz briefly interrupts his exposition to Perry the Platypus to show some funny cat pictures he discovered on the Internet.

** In "Mind Share", Doof gets defensive about people lying on the Internet by saying, "You don't think that cat really eats cheeseburgers, do ya?" and also "Oh, come on! You don't think that cat really plays the piano, do ya?!"

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "At the Car Wash", Dr. Doofenshmirtz briefly interrupts his exposition to Perry the Platypus to show some funny cat pictures he discovered on the Internet.
-->'''Doofenshmirtz:''' Look! "Invisible cheeseburger"! ''(beat)'' No, huh? Well, it's not for everyone. I just think they're funny.

* In the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "Prendrick's Planetary Parlour", when Murdoch looks into Prendrick's cellular telegraphy instant messaging system, Julia asks what sort of things the VictimOfTheWeek used it for:

* In ''Film/KimPossible'', Drakken tags a photo on Villainstagram with "''[=#CUTECATS=]". The photo itself, however, has nothing to do with cats.

* In the ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' episode on the ''Franchise/{{Spiderman}}: Virtual Mortality'' this gets referenced. After the comic (which is from the 1990s) comments about how 'cyberspace' has no boundaries and has infinite potential and possibility, Linkara says "The capacity for pornography, cat videos, and harassment is infinite!"

* At one point in ''VideoGame/CustomRobo Arena'', Dennis, one of the player's teammates, is nervous before a [[FictionalSport Custom Robo tournament]], so he looks up cat pictures online to help him calm down.

This can be due to SmallReferencePools of {{meme|tic mutation}}s. While it's true many Internet memes are animal related, most actually aren't. That being said, this is very much TruthInTelevision, and albeit not to the extent it once was; cute animals (including, but not limited to, cats) are always popular on the Internet, and while no longer the mainstay of memes and Website/YouTube they once were, they are still incredibly popular.

* ''WesternAnimation/KizaziMotoGenerationFire'': In "Mukudzei", the protagonist is hoping that his online video will beat the current number one, which is shown to star a cat.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheInternetIsForPorn Beats the alternative.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[LiterallyMinded This is exactly what we're talking about.]]]]

* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' has a clothing item called the "meme shirt" in-game. It's a t-shirt with a suitably ridiculous design of a cat's head shooting lasers out of its eyes, obviously based off this trope.

A ShallowNewsSiteSatire will often show plenty of cute animals. Contrast with TheInternetIsForPorn for the other kind of pussy you're likely to find online (unless both can overlap if you're looking for ''[[{{Yiff}} cat porn]]'' videos). CatGirl could possibly be a SisterTrope to both if your curiosity is morbid enough. Compare and contrast to BuffoonishTomcat, where these cats aren't meme-related when characterized by humor, but rather slapstick humor and buffoonery as well.

* The Spanish film ''Toc Toc'' contains a scene in which five OCD sufferers have been awaiting a world-famous therapist--that can supposedly cure them in only one session-- for ''hours'' and are beginning to find his secretary's various excuses for him a bit suspicious. This is confirmed when she was supposed to be trying to fix the system that automatically scheduled all their appointments at the same time instead of one by one, but she is actually watching a video of kittens doing funny things.