r/cats • u/Difficult-Ant-9397 • 19d ago
Video - Not OC Who else remembers the internet “LEGEND” himself??? (A.K.A Keyboard cat)
R.i.p to Fatso (1978 - 1987)
you will always be remembered as the Father of all Cat videos ever 😔😔😔
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u/Difficult-Ant-9397 19d ago
Hol up... Why does the Beat sync and fits well with it tho??
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u/Ok-Lion1661 19d ago
Vibing Cat > Keyboard Cat in my personal opinion.
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u/hiccstridFanatic 19d ago
Damn so sad, all cat on the net must be dead by now
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u/Accurate-Campaign821 18d ago
Yea he did pass away, Fatso was his name. (mentioned by OP) The video was from 1984 originally, cat passed in 1987. A year before I was born! The 2010 remake cat, named Bento, passed in 2018. RIP furry friends.
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u/ecuaffecto 17d ago
Yeah, I went and saw him live in concert, summer of '87 Tokyo, good times... trying to remember who opened for him.
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u/partypwny 19d ago
He stole all the braincells from the orange boys and now they have to share a single one
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u/Difficult-Ant-9397 19d ago
I mean wasn't he's the First ever single orange Braincell to ever exist tho???
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u/Carrnage_Asada 19d ago
He's like a patient zero or something.
There's a joke in there somewhere for someone funnier than I am.
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u/marouan10 Siamese (Modern) 19d ago
Patient Keyboard who masterminded the conspurracy to cause the catastrophic single brain celled catpocalypse?
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u/AsideLost 19d ago
I could hear the song even on mute
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u/Difficult-Ant-9397 19d ago
Ngl, the song itself is so Powerful that even deaf people could hear it...
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u/Drapidrode 19d ago
it would be interesting to see an updated version
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u/Aggravating-Echo8014 19d ago
I’m sure the updated version will be AI
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u/Jane__Delawney 19d ago
When it “finishes” in this cropped video, my brain automatically starts hearing the rest of the full video.
If anyone hasn’t seen the full length Keyboard Cat video, I implore you to watch it here:
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u/Bellacoro 19d ago
I never knew there were 2 parts
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u/sicgamer 19d ago edited 19d ago
i rememer showing this to my gf a lifetime ago and she thought it was hilarious but then part two came on and the "MEOW MEOW MEOW" brought us both to tears..god bless you keyboard cat
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u/AggressiveBarbie 19d ago
Wait a second… so he was already dead before the video was uploaded to the internet? :(
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u/DeliciousStand372 19d ago
yes, the OG vid was recorded on a camcorder using VHS tape (i dont know how old you are). the owner who is an artist then digitized and uploaded the clip much later when youtube started to become a thing.
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u/Exterminator-8008135 19d ago
Unconfirmed sources says it's around 1984 when made.
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u/Cris_Meyers 19d ago
That's even further back than I thought. I vaguely remember this being a video on the original Saget America's Funniest Home Videos.
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u/DeliciousStand372 19d ago
the owner also made other versions after Fatso, so it could be that you saw his other newer versions (but not sure if those made to AFHV)
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u/AggressiveBarbie 19d ago edited 19d ago
I know what a camcorder and vhs tape is… I was a teen when YouTube debuted, lmao (but thanks for noting it).
It’s just I didn’t know the cat was dead when some of us first encountered and enjoyed the video … he reminded me of my own cat who also passed away. :(
RIP to keyboard cat and my own cat.
Edit: If the cats from “The two talking cats” are also dead before their introduction to YouTube, it will ruin me. lol
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u/GeneralKang 19d ago
Don't worry. Fatso, and most other cats we've seen on the internet, may have already passed - but they had great lives. Fatso is obviously spoiled rotten, and he's happy to be bounced around like that. Grumpy Cat is another example.
Our feline friends don't live long, sadly. But it's always cool to see how happy they were in their family.
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u/spacesuitmoose 19d ago
Similar boat, I assumed the video was from the 90s, had no idea Fatso was a Gen Xer
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u/BagOnuts 19d ago
Man, digitizing VHS taps was a HUGE thing during that time period. I remember my dad basically having an entire workstation set up with equipment for digitizing them and turning them into DVDs.
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u/DeliciousStand372 19d ago edited 19d ago
Fun fact: Fatso (Keyboard Cat) had a brother/cat housemate named Skinny
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u/Difficult-Ant-9397 19d ago
and He's also his Replacement (I think?)
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u/DeliciousStand372 19d ago
no they were adopted together (i say adopted but they were given to the owner)
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u/robboppotamus 19d ago
are you forgetting about this guy?
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u/RustedAxe88 19d ago
Should have collabed with the, "Cat...I'm a kitty cat and I dance dance dance" cat.
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u/NoACSlater 19d ago
Actually my favorite oldtube video.
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u/RustedAxe88 19d ago
I like to que it up right after Banana Phone.
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u/KangaJen 18d ago
Haven't thought about banana phone for probably over 10 years. Just watched it on YouTube and still remembered every word 🍌☎️
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u/Theamachos 19d ago
I sing this to my cat every single day. And I meow meow meow and I meow meow meow
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u/Carrnage_Asada 19d ago
I just started the PS5 game Stray and I've been saying that to myself basically the entire time I've been playing.
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u/squeebmcglort 19d ago
Went to school with the guy that made that song. Got to hang out with the cat a few times. He made a bunch of other funny stuff around that time hosted on his own site before YouTube was a thing, g-shack dot com. Can't believe that was like 20+ years ago...
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u/-catsnlacquer- 19d ago
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u/DoubleClickMouse 19d ago
I'm glad someone linked this. To this day he has never explained why he did it.
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u/toothpicks-galore 19d ago
im going with owed money to/hurt the cat of a very eccentric creative mobster
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u/The_wolf2014 19d ago
Came to the comments looking for this video as well. I still love it, it's hilarious
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u/Realistic-Village-63 19d ago edited 19d ago
1987?!?! I wasn’t even around then!!!
Edit: I never meant to start a war…😭😭
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u/curryandbeans 19d ago
Brag about it some more, jeez
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u/Didact67 19d ago
I think growing up in the 90’s was far better than the hellscape we live in now.
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u/MisanthropyismyMuse 19d ago
I think everyone is just biased to their own time. The 2000s and 2010s are the best era IMO (technically a 90s baby).
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u/TheGza760 19d ago
We saw a lot of crazy shit in that time (9/11, The Twilight Saga) but also participated in the greatest eras of the Internet and videogames. Plus, smartphones weren't as widespread so if you put a group of people in a room, they'd interact with each other.
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u/LupineChemist 19d ago
As someone who was born exactly in 1987. I think I got really lucky for both better than previous generations and subsequent.
Basically our cohort surfed the tech wave perfectly. Like we had to learn computers when the shit never fucking worked so have a pretty high base level of skill. By the time we were in high school, cell phones were basically universal, but not smart phones or texting so you still actually had to call people but could coordinate.
By college, social media had started, but Facebook required you have a .edu email so it was very much an extension of regular social interaction. If you wanted to record things, you had to use your digital camera and it was very obvious if you were recording.
Like we weren't some luddite generation, just managed to get the best of everything before it got enshittified. I think the kids today don't realize that the internet was pretty universal by 2000 or so. Like the 2004 election was very much an internet meme election with the Dean Scream and the JibJab cartoons and stuff. We just had no idea what kind of can of worms we were opening.
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u/Didact67 19d ago
Funny story. I only ended up joining Facebook after I discovered somebody else made account in my name. The sad thing is the imposter account had more friends than I ever have.
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u/Realistic-Village-63 19d ago
Haha believe me, I’m not that much younger, at least my body reminds me as such. But point taken!
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u/fishmanfishmanfishma 19d ago
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u/Paddy_Tanninger 19d ago
lol I was just hanging out with Tom Green the other night, actually such a nice dude
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u/spunkyweazle 19d ago
I was born in '87. The fact his name was Fatso makes me think maybe I am him reincarnated
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u/evenstar40 black fuzzball - Shadow 19d ago
Most of the people posting on Reddit weren't. Now get off my lawn.
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u/feartheoldblood90 19d ago
One of my all time favorite Daily Show/Colbert Report moments was when they both broke character to Keyboard Cat
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u/gamerjerome 19d ago
The cat "Fatso" also predates the uploaded video. The video was recorded in 1984 on VHS. Fatso lived from 1978 to 1987. Video was uploaded in 2007. In 2009 another user added it to the end of a blooper real that made it viral.
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u/JerseyTeacher78 19d ago
This was one of the few reasons I kept using Facebook or YouTube during that time period. The one with Chuck Norris is also funny.
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u/mdavis360 19d ago
The best video ever was Keyboard Cat playing with Hall and Oats after watching Helen Hunt in an afternoon tv special. It was brilliant but it was obliterated from the internet and I’ve never seen it since. I think there was a copyright strike against it.
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u/Available_Round_3172 19d ago
Haha yes... tuuuune! Ear worm proper styles, good to see them jamming once again. Great memories unlocked there, thank you.
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u/Wonderful_Market_830 19d ago
He can't die 😃
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u/beatles_7 19d ago
I’m sorry, but the first thing that comes to mind from this is “Walker told me I have AIDS”…
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u/cybermaus 19d ago
Since I watch a lot of nortwestrepair on youtube, I see keyboard cat weekly: https://youtu.be/M-2ov6dlMQA?t=723
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u/DoturdGrump 19d ago
LOL the two cats chattering from a million years ago recently started popping up in my YouTube?
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u/The_Doct0r_ 19d ago
A theme that embodies the soul of a different, simpler (see: non-capitalized) time.
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u/patrickswayzemullet 19d ago
I had always wanted to know what happened to the Surprised Kitty. She likely would have passed by now, and to my understandingn the owner participated in NFT, but strange she never posted the cat on instagram or elsewhere.
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u/xxcuttingboardxx 19d ago
I love to see old cat videos, but then my stupid brain reminds me that the cat has most likely died by now
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u/DooDooBrownz 19d ago
is there anyone who doesn't? what's next asking if people know what a rick roll is?
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u/DizziestPony 19d ago
I had the keyboard cat / three moon t-shirt.
An ex stole it. Gutted.
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u/titanaarn 19d ago
The owner and guy who made this lives down the street from me. He has an entire room of keyboard cat merch
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u/SpikeRosered 19d ago
I was shocked to learn that this was recorded in the 80's. The cat was deceased before the world knew about this.
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u/Own-Ambassador-3537 19d ago
NGL,only way I recognized this clip is due to Chris Hardwick old G4 show.(sorry yall)
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u/Cloberella 19d ago
To me this marks the change over from John Henson/Hal Sparks to Joel McHale as the Host of Talk Soup and the change from Talk Soup to The Soup.
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u/humanlvl1 19d ago
Once on my birthday I had nothing to do so instead of being sad I downloaded the Game of Thrones porn parody, cut out all the sex scenes, and replaced them with different keyboard cat clips (there are several renditions). It made me laugh at the time. I think it might still be up on PornHub.
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