The posting of cat videos is kind of a joke around the nonexistent Videogum water cooler. It's funny because I don't really love being around cats (just due to allergies, OMG gross TMI!) but I do love cat videos, and also because it's funny and weird that posting cat videos is a large part of anyone's job. I think of the occasional cat video on this site as a service to those who like cute things, but not all the time. Like if Videogum was orange juice, and cute things were pulp, we would be "some pulp." But in honor of the end of the year, here are the 10 Best Cat Videos that were posted on this site in 2008. There are some controversial choices, in as much as a controversial choice of cat videos can exist, but I re-watched them all, and these were the best ten. Yay for cats:
There's this site going around (but it's hard to tell how old it is) called Cute Things Falling Asleep (dot ORG). It's extremely self-explanatory. This is my favorite, and at nearly a million views, this kitten is more famous than, like, the guy who played Gunther on Friends:
What scares me is the number of those I'd already seen before. (Via Young Manhattanite.)
Normally, there would be a Friday Fight right now, but it's hard to have an IM fight with a person who is on an airplane, and Gabe's furious, violent typing would probably alert an air marshal, so it's really best for everyone if I share a cat. This is a cat named Charley and he has Cerebellar Hypoplasia. If you don't go "awww" when he gets into his little bed, well, stop reading this, ROBOTS:
Awww! Please also appreciate the somber, HBO original documentary/PSA tone of this YouTube video. If you see a cat like Charley, grab it and love it forever!
I'm often asked by someone whose initials are "G.D.": "Does it ever pain you intellectually to post so many cat videos?" To which I reply: "If only you knew how many cat videos I did not post." It's like a Zen Koan, and also no conversation like that has ever occurred. NEW BOX CAT YOU GUYS:
I'm sorry, it's funny. The little legs coming out the other side! The metaphor for perseverance and determination in the face of universal condescension! It's like The Wrestler, maybe, or something. Box Cat Lives!
Tipster Louis just pointed out this video from 1894, created by Thomas Edison, of two cats boxing in a ring. Thomas Edison made crazy cat videos in 1894. Mind officially blown:
The YouTube commenters are debating whether or not this stunt constituted cruelty to animals, in their beside-the-point adorable YouTube commenter way, but I'm more concerned with how much CUTER and less busted-looking cats have become in the past 114 years. We're very lucky to have the cats, and the cat videos, we have today.
Our montage of the best viral videos of 2008 was made before we were introduced to Death Metal Puppy, and the rules excluded pets, but I'm going to fight hard for him to be grandfathered in for the 2009 montage (let's just pretend it's January). Death Metal Puppy rules. (Headphones up, sound down, for real, but it's soooo worth it.):
With nearly half a million views in less than a week, the broccoli-loving kitten known imaginatively as "Broccoli Kitten" is hands-down the Kitten Of The Week. But what's BK's real talent, other than that cute little noise he makes?:
And why is he named "Captain Pugwash"? Did he lick a pug while they were both on some sort of small-animal boat toy? And do people really get together and sit on the floor with cats (a gecko was also mentioned) and paparazzi them while saying new-agey things like "I told Anna last night that the photos when I'm with her or thinking about her seem to be much cuter than average." Get out of my morning kitten video, Shirley MacLaine! Also, as evidenced by the YouTube related videos section, LOTS of kittens like broccoli. Stop being famous just for being famous, Captain Pugwash, if that is your real military rank.
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