Some famous internet animals aren't even real, like the Bongo Cat. Although the GIF originated on Twitter, it soon spread online to other social media platforms. Essentially, Bongo Cat personified everything good about the internet. As Ellen Scott wrote for Metro, "It brings happiness to all, even in the trashfire year that was 2018."
If we're talking about animated viral cats, how can we forget Nyan Cat? The iconic 8-bit animated feline with a pop tart for a torso and a rainbow trail behind it took the internet by storm in 2011. Its creator Christopher Torres had said that its original name was Pop Tart Cat. "I will continue to call it so, but the internet has reached a decision to name it Nyan Cat, and I'm happy with that choice, too," he told Pop Goes The Week in 2011.
If you weren't a teenager in the early 2010s, you might not know what a chokehold the screaming goat memes had on everybody online. They were parodied with Taylor Swift songs, inserted into the Frozen soundtrack, and just went viral on their own. What made them so funny was that their voices kind of fit, as their yells sounded strangely similar to those of humans.
