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2011 Internet meme

Nyan True cat is a YouTube video uploaded in Apr 2011, which became an net meme. The video merged a Japanese pop song with an blithe cartoon cat with a Popular-Tart for a body flying through infinite and leaving a rainbow trail behind. The video ranked at number 5 on the list of most viewed YouTube videos in 2011.[1]

Origin

Animated GIF

On Apr 2, 2011, the GIF animation of the cat was posted past 25-twelvemonth-former Christopher Torres of Dallas, Texas, who uses the proper name "prguitarman", on his website LOL-Comics.[two] Torres explained in an interview where the idea for the blitheness came from: "I was doing a donation drive for the Cherry Cantankerous and in-betwixt drawings in my Livestream video chat, 2 unlike people mentioned I should draw a 'Pop Tart' and a 'cat'." In response, he created a hybrid image of a Pop-Tart and a true cat, which was developed a few days later on into the animated GIF.[3] The blueprint of Nyan Cat was influenced by Torres' pet cat Marty, who died in November 2012 from feline infectious peritonitis.[4] [5]

Song

The original version of the vocal "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" was uploaded past user "daniwell"[6] to the Japanese video site Niconico on July 25, 2010.[7] The song features the Vocaloid virtual singer Hatsune Miku. The Japanese word にゃ (nya) is onomatopoeic, imitating the phone call of a true cat (equivalent to English "meow").[1] The song was later included in the rhythm game Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA F, released past Sega in August 2012.[eight]

On January thirty, 2011, a user named "Momomomo" uploaded a cover of "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" featuring the UTAU voice Momone Momo.[9] [x] The voice source used to create the Momone Momo vocalization was a Japanese woman named Momoko Fujimoto.[xi]

YouTube video

YouTube user "saraj00n" (whose real name is Sara June)[12] combined the cat animation with the "Momomomo" version of the vocal "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!", and uploaded it to YouTube on Apr 5, 2011, iii days after Torres had uploaded his animation, giving it the championship "Nyan Cat".[1] [three] The video rapidly became a success after beingness featured on websites including G4 and CollegeHumor. Christopher Torres said: "Originally, its name was Pop Tart Cat, and I will continue to phone call it so, but the Internet has reached a decision to name it Nyan Cat, and I'thou happy with that choice, too."[iii]

In March 2019, ownership of the YouTube channel hosting the original Nyan True cat video was transferred to Means TV, a worker-endemic video streaming service.[xiii]

Remastering and sale every bit an NFT

In February 2021, it was reported that the gif's original creator, Chris Torres, had created an updated version and sold it as a non-fungible token (NFT) for 300 ether, the equivalent of US$587,000 at the time of auction.[fourteen]

Reception

The Nyan True cat music video reached ninth place in Business concern Insider 's acme ten viral videos of April 2011, with 7.2 1000000 total views.[15] The original YouTube video has received over 180 one thousand thousand views equally of August 5, 2020[update]. Nyan Cat won a Webby Laurels in 2012 for "Meme of the Year".[sixteen]

Due to the video'south popularity, many new remixes and cover versions have been fabricated, some several hours long. There are as well ringtones, wallpapers and applications created for operating systems and devices, including a progress bar substitute for Windows which would show up in various places such as the file transfer progress indicator in Windows Explorer, following a request on the subreddit "Somebody Make This".[17] [18] [19] Video games were adult for iPhone, iPad,[20] Symbian,[21] Android,[22] Windows Phone,[23] and HP webOS,[24] and a variety of wink games such as "Snake" replicas using the cat's rainbow tail.[25] "Nyan Cat Gamble", by 21st Street Games, is an officially licensed game.[12] [26] An officially licensed cryptocurrency entitled "Nyancoin" with the domain proper name nyanco.in (later nyan-coin.org) was launched in Jan 2014.[27]

Website

Christopher Torres initially criticized the website www.nyan.true cat, which originally featured a like-looking cat with the pop tart replaced by a slice of toast,[28] and the same background music. The site, which uses the .cat sponsored top-level domain, was described by Torres every bit "plagiarized".[29] [30] Since 2012 the website has been operated by Torres, and shows the authentic version of the true cat.[12]

Temporary DMCA takedown

On June 27, 2011, the original YouTube video was taken downwards from the site post-obit a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint from someone claiming to be Torres. Torres immediately issued a argument on his website LOL-comics denying that he was the source of the complaint, and contacted Saraj00n and daniwell, who hold the copyright for the video and the song, in order to file a counter-complaint to YouTube. During the period that the video was unavailable for viewing, Torres received numerous abusive eastward-mails from people who wrongly believed that he had filed the DMCA complaint. On June 28, 2011, the Nyan Cat video was restored to YouTube.[31]

Lawsuit

In May 2013, Christopher Torres and Charles Schmidt, the creators of Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat respectively, jointly sued 5th Cell and Warner Bros. for copyright infringement and trademark infringement over the advent of these characters without permission in the Scribblenauts series of video games. Torres and Schmidt have registered copyrights on their characters and have pending trademark applications on the names.[32] [33] Torres released a statement saying that he had tried to obtain compensation from 5th Cell and Warner Bros. for commercial use of the grapheme, but was "disrespected and snubbed" multiple times.[34] [35] The suit was settled in September 2013, with Torres and Schmidt being paid for the use of the characters.[36]

See too

  • Robot Unicorn Assail
  • Techno Kitten Adventure
  • Cats and the Internet
  • List of Internet phenomena

References

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  25. ^ "nyake" – Internet Archive
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  30. ^ "Huy Hong: so tremendously humbled, thank yous. Lies and thievery". prguitarman.tumblr.com. Archived from the original on Apr 26, 2012. Retrieved Nov 13, 2011.
  31. ^ "I did NOT file a Youtube Copyright Complaint". prguitarman.com. June 27, 2011. Archived from the original on September viii, 2012. Retrieved Nov thirteen, 2011.
  32. ^ "Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat creators sue Warner Bros". BBC News. 2013-05-02. Archived from the original on 2013-05-04. Retrieved 2013-05-02 .
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  35. ^ Phillips, Tom (2013-05-03). "Warner Bros. and 5th Prison cell targeted past Keyboard Cat, Nyan True cat lawsuit • News •". Eurogamer.net. Archived from the original on 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2013-06-27 .
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External links

  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata
  • Nyan Cat on LOL-Comics, the original GIF animation by prguitarman (Christopher Torres), April two, 2011.
  • Nyan Cat, saraj00n (April five, 2011) on YouTube

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