In July 2011, New York University student introduced a javescript bookmarklet allowing the browser user to summon Nyan Cat at anytime and anywhere online.The Nyan Cat, first installed by MIT hackers in Lobby 7 in the fall of 2011, is now on permanent display in the MIT SHASS "Great Ideas" exhibit in the lobby of Building 14. However, because of Youtube's interface update on July 5th, the custom seek bar has been removed. On June 28, 2011, YouTube restored the video after having confirmed that Prguitarman had not filed a claim, and restored everything from the original video including the custom Nyan Cat seek bar. Saraj00n, Daniwell, and Youtube have been contacted and I am just now waiting for each of their replies so we can work on getting the video back up. Good job.Īnyway, I’ve been working at this for about two or three hours and have done the most I can for now. Meanwhile, people are flagging my videos on Youtube and giving me death threats just like upstanding Internet citizens usually do. FUN TIMES! But seriously, there is a lot of work involved here and it’s pretty stressful. On June 24th, 2011 InstantElevatorMusic released Nyan Cat Progress Bar, a modification for Windows default progress bars.Īlso, on 19th of July 2011, Nikos Lykousas released NyanSliders for jailbroken apple devices, a tweak which aims at replacing any slider in iOS with an animating Nyan Cat leaving rainbow trail, just like the original YouTube progress bar.įunny how someone can easily make a complaint but to actually prove it the owner has to jump through all of these hoops. On 5th of July 2011, YouTube made a global update on video player user interface and to everyone's disappointment the Nyan Cat custom progress bar was permanently removed.Īlso quite remarkable are the efforts made by some developers to recreate YouTube's progress bar and integrate it to different operating systems as a fancy replacement for some user interface elements. A screen shot was posted to Reddit the same day. On June 16th, 2011, YouTube enabled a custom flash player for the original Nyan Cat video that showed an animated mini Nyan Cat flying across the progress bar with a rainbow trail. The comment instructed other YouTubers to play the Nyan Cat video and hardcore rock band Slipknot's "Psychosocial" music video simultaneously in sync, which virtually resulted in a Nyan Cat audio dub YouTuber xDaZJMx commented on the original Nyan cat video by saraj00n telling viewers to watch Slipknot’s Psychosocial (muted) with the Nyan cat song playing in the background. Nyan Cat has been also briefly seen on Sprint's Nexus 4G "Cats" commercial, which featured a number of popular cat video clips. There are several remixes and spinoff variations of the original video circulating on YouTube, many of them customized with alternative characters and background music. On April 12th, the Tosh.0 blog posted the Nyan Cat video, as did CollegeHumor] and G4TV. On April 10th, the Nyan Cat video was picked up by popular blogs and social networking sites, including Memebase, BuzzFeed, Tumblr, and Facebook among others. The GIF animation was also reblogged via Tumblr on April 2nd, 2011, accumulating more than 3,000 notes (likes & reblogs) in its first two weeks: Prior to the Pop-Tart Cat, prguitarman had already gained a relatively large audience with a few other instances of comics circulating on the web. The original drawing was based on his own Russian Blue cat, Marty, and was drawn after receiving two separate suggestions for a cat and a pop tart during a Red Cross charity drawing event on Livestream. The Pop-Tart Cat animation was posted on the daily comics site LOL-COMICS run by illustrator Chris Torres, also known as prguitarman, on April 2nd, 2011. While absurd themes like flying kittens and pastry cats have been around for some time, the surreal humor behind this particular combination has captivated YouTubers and online art communities, spawning fan illustrations as well as user-interface designs and homebrew games across multiple platforms. Nyan Cat, also known as Pop Tart Cat, is an 8-bit animation depicting a cat with the body of a cherry Pop-Tart flying through outer space.
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