Are you kidding me?
Hah! What's this?
It's so cute. It looks like a cat going and going and going!
It's got rainbow farts.
You like to kind of groove with the music.
I think I got the idea.
How long's this last?
Well, I keep waiting for something to happen. - Yeah.
Is it gonna keep going? Or does it change colors or anything?
Is this supposed to hypnotize me or something?
Is it a way for someone to test monitors to see how long it takes for something to break it?
It's like an old record that got the needle got stuck.
Please stop!
I can't take any more of this.
I love all the colors.
The music goes perfectly with the way he's walking!
Oh, I feel like that animal's my friend!
I don't get it!
So could you talk about what you just watched?
That was awful!
It's weird, that's what it is. - It looked like a Lego piece.
Well, it looked like a pixel kitty cat taking a long time getting nowhere.
It made me feel like the cat was my friend.
I thought like the cat loved me and-- oh, that's a good feeling!
Do you remember how the song went?
You're not gonna ask me to sing it.
Oh, it's just this annoying tone: Eee eee eee eee eee eee eee!
It was irritating after a while.
Can you break down what this image was that you kept seeing?
It's a gray kitty that has a strawberry pop-tart for a body...
In Japan, they have little figurines for each city.
And it would be something a lot looking like that.
If you close that, you'd have a pair of pliers - I don't see the pliers
That's because you're not a mechanic. - I know, I'm not.
I can't even tell you what it reminds me of because
I cannot relate to this stuff!
Did you like the video? - It got boring. It was too repetitive.
No. It was not exactly Snow White.
It was the same thing over and over again, but that's life, isn't it?
Maybe if I was 5 years old again.
But of course, when I was 5 years old, they didn't have stuff like this.
When you were a kid, do you think you would have liked this? - Oh, yeah!
When I was a kid, I was born in '32...
We liked everything new.
The original upload of this has over 70 million views. - Wow! You're kidding!
70 million views?!
That's a bunch of zombies out there with too much time and too much marijuana on their hands.
70 million. What do you think about that? - Is this X rated? What kind of language can I use?
- Whatever you want. - What ever language you want.
- They're all f**ked up! - [laughter]
You cannot call anything junk like they used to call rock-and-roll after it sold a million copies.
It may be junk to you, but it ain't junk to everybody.
Why is it so popular?
I think it's popular because it's different.
The music to it is very catchy.
The worse it is, the more popular it is.
I mean, look at the Kardashians. I mean, come on.
Have you heard of the term "viral video?"
- Of course. - Oh yeah. - I've heard the term.
What does that mean? - Oh, it's contagious.
Not by a professional that for some reason gets extremely popular.
MILLIONS and millions of people watching it. It went viral.
Just like the say with Justin Biebers?
Why do they call it a viral video, though?
It's not from the word "virus," 'cos that would be illness, uh...
But what does a virus do? - A virus spreads.
Oh!!! Wow, I learned something new!
And what about YouTube? What is YouTube?
Well, YouTube's where you can put on videos that you make.
There's videos, there's musicals, there's people making jokes, there's comedy...
Probably one of the greatest things to come along for social engineering.
I was encouraged to do this little episode because my kids said,
"Dad! YouTube, everybody sees it, go do it!"
And here I am.
And do you remember how you first found out about it? - No.
That's because I'm not sure what I had for dinner last night.
And what are your thoughts on YouTube, overall?
Well, I like it. No, it's good because you can see a lot of nice things out there.
It's a new way of doing things, and I'm all for new ways. I love it.
Coming from way back when transistor radio was like "the big thing."
It's just unimaginable to me because you can just go on there and you can see anything in the world.
The world has gotten so much smaller.
And YouTube is gonna be another way for our children to know everything that's going on.
I think that it's valuable source of communication.
Whether it's going to help our society to be a better society? I don't know.
A lot of people have made different versions of this after this became popular.
So now I'm going to show you a few of these different versions of this that other people have made.
- Oh, must you? Okay... - I must.
It's a Mario cat.
Okay.
That's for left wing people.
A heavy metal cat!
A waffle. Maybe I'll have waffles for dinner.
That's cool glasses on him.
Let them play that in nursing homes, it calms the people down.
"... nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan nyan..."
Jet-propelled version.
Jet propelled, alright.
It's like it's farting himself... It's funny.
Like there's smoke coming out of its butt there.
So why when something becomes popular then people want to then make their own version of it?
Well, you know, it's like a song, you know
You gotta cover a song but you might want to tweak it.
Ownership. Make my own. I mean, this is great, but I think I can maybe add something to it that more people are gonna watch.
I kinda do question that. Why not be original?
There is a version on YouTube of the first video that is 100 hours long of that same movie. - [sigh]
And there's over 13 millions views listed on that video. What do you think about that?
One hundred--? Say that again? It's a hundred hours long?
I hope there's some...
... redeeming social values in that.
You know, that's something that you'd have to smoke a lot of grass to watch that for 100 hours.
If someone told you when you were a kid that one day
way in the future, you're gonna be sat down, asked your opinion about
a cat with rainbows, flying through space, what would you have said?
What drugs are you on? - What are you talking about?
I would not have believed any of that stuff when I was a child.
Depends what era. In the 60s, they probably would have said, "Oh! Okay, cool."
Oh, I would have said, "Wow! I can't wait to see this!
"It's so gonna be so exciting and blow my mind!"
Finally, overall, what are your thoughts generally that THIS is one of the most famous things ever on the internet?
Well...
You know, it's kinda-- It's kinda sad, really.
I'm dumbfounded, you think people had better things to do with their lives.
Pretty typical... of you young folks!
People in my age group, we have a very difficult time keeping up with technology.
I don't understand it. And I'm a little afraid of it.
So are you a little afraid of this video?
This video? No.
A fact, I don't even know
what the hell
it's all about! Well, look at it!
- Thanks for watching. - I'll see you next time!
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Bye! - Take care.
- Bye! - And all I can say is...
Th- the- th- that's all, folks!