There’s also this thing called meme economics. As cat memes rose to fame, an entirely new industry was born that capitalized on this. Meme creators can finally get paid for memes by using social media platforms in combination with ad revenue, sponsorships and merchandise.
And you better believe that cats have cewebrity status. We’ve all heard of Grumpy Cat and Nyan Cat. Then there’s that one cat being yelled at by a woman, polite cat, heavy breathing cat, crying cat… you get the gist. Just like monorail cat, ceiling cat and the other classics, these too now are household names among memesters (and closed work groups with not enough to do so they create emojis using cat memes).
According to statistics, there are somewhere between 600 million and 1 billion cats in the world. Between the 480 million cats that are strays and the 373 million who have forever homes, that is a lot of meme potential.
We’re gonna circle back and say that cats rule the internet. And so you can continue on the virtual feline path and check out more listicles from Bored Panda–namely about people who found cats that weren’t theirs in their houses.
If you’re calling it a night, at least leave a comment and an upvote to restore balance to the earth. Or something.
