Today, the video of Januhas accumulated more than 185 million views □. A repeated miaow, a wtf hybrid cat – the recipe for a mythical meme. “Nyan” is the Japanese equivalent of our “Miaow”. Screenshot of the video “Know Your Meme: Nyan Cat”Ī few days later, the cat is animated and put on Youtube by user saraj00n who adds the Japanese song “Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!” ( published in 2010) to it. This cat is also inspired by his cat Marty, who died in 2012. In an interview on the Pop Goes The Week website, Torres recounts how the idea for the Nyan Cat came about: “I was doing a fundraiser for the Red Cross and between two drawings in my Livestream video chat two different people mentioned that I should draw a “Pop Tart” and a “Cat”. Again, these videos accumulate a bewildering number of views.īut the original version of this cat comes from the illustrator Chris Torres (under the nickname who, on April 2, 2011, published the first Nyan Cat on his LOL-COMICS site. A viral phenomenon, “Nyan Cat” is taken up by dozens of Internet users who extend its initial version from 3 minutes 36 to 10, then 24 hours. In just a few days, the video reached several million views.
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