2-7), the popularity of it in video form could be seen as an unconventional kind of art movement of the virtual world. While memes have been established as a complex and creative product that emerged in the era of media convergence (Shifman, 2014 p. While the origin of this particular rendition might be more obscure, those who had seen it before somewhere, and wanting to share it with their colleague would go to various possible social media sites where they would have to try to search for it among other irrelevant animated cat visuals, or they could possibly go to a platform that caters towards similar humorous preferences, like 9Gag. Afterwards, there had been various remixes, including one where the animated cat is tapping a yellow cartoon buttocks figure, along with Bruno Mars’ tune (9Gag, 2018). Sometime in May 2018, a Twitter user responded to a fellow Twitter user by sharing a GIF of a cartoon cat slapping a table, which was edited into a short video, while putting in a picture of a bongo as well as adding Super Mario World soundtrack as its music (Caldwell, 2018).
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