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Song?

We are forgetting something important: What song was Fatso "playing"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.57.224.185 (talk) 22:12, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good question. It could just be something Charlie Schmidt made up. dogman15 (talk) 10:28, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Charlie wrote the song himself. The shirt was just something he had, he does not have a son.

Origin

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought 4chan was the originator of this meme? If not why is there no citation or reference to the originator? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.208.121 (talk) 19:39, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It didn't start on 4chan, per se, it was already gaining popularity and being linked by other forums by the time it got to 4chan. It's real surge in popularity didn't come until the original was featured by YouTube, which triggered a hundred or so parodies. By that point it had gone 'legitimately viral'. I should know, I posted the original video. But, regardless, there are cited sources stating otherwise already up on the article. 4chan's influence was relatively minimal.--75.85.11.43 (talk) 01:00, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Must we use the term "meme?" It somehow doesn't feel that encyclopedic to throw around hip words that will undoubtedly be forgotten next month. SergioGeorgini (talk) 13:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The term "meme" was first used in Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, first published in 1976. A meme is a unit of cultural information, analogous to a gene, which is a unit of genetic information. I think it is reasonable to use it in this context, and that the word probably will still be around in a month. Jamamala^{talk to me} 14:28, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, "meme" is a well-established word for referring to this sort of thing. Johnleemk | Talk 22:14, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well-established terminology; I expect this meme itself will die out long before the terminology. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 12:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, when the chans die the ""memes" die. —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 12:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, "meme" is a hip word to be forgotten soon? Play SergioGeorgini off, Keyboard Cat. JBsupreme (talk) 08:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is funny that someone accused the word and concept of a meme of itself being a meme. Ninahexan (talk) 08:03, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Appearances on television

Should it perhaps be noted somewhere that this has also shown up on the G4 network's "Attack of the Show"? They had a small segment which showed art / a tiny mechanism (an orange robotic cat hitting notes on a fake keyboard, while playing the keyboard cat song) that had been created regarding this meme. 97.90.63.183 (talk) 06:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Would we then be added trivial material to this encyclopedia article? That is the question you should ask yourself. If we merely note that Keyboard Cat showed up on another television show without being able to cite a third party publication which has documented such an appearance, are we not permitting original research, thus violating our no original research (WP:NOR) policy? JBsupreme (talk) 06:48, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deceased? Really?

It consists of footage from 1984 of "Fatso", a cat (now deceased)...

No? Gee, and here I was thinking the cat was 26 years old and still going strong. Thank you, Captain Obvious. Tualha (Talk) 00:28, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Don't know if anyone cares at this late date, but I apologize for the snark. Tualha (Talk) 11:30, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

kind of unrelated but dose anyone know how the cats died? 68.170.223.155 (talk) 03:24, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Some cats have lived to be older than 26. [[1]] Lily20 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC).[reply]

I tried to remove that bit of silliness and I was reverted. If we don't know when the cat died, the information is completely useless. It's like talking about some 19th century person and saying that they are "now deceased". Well, of course they are—that's biology for you. If we found out the cat died in a certain year, or even a certain decade, then sure, add that. But it's useless to just say the cat died. If you disagree, ask yourself: at what point would the information become useless? In 40 years? 100 years? If a cat was alive in 1984, then the automatic assumption is that the cat is dead in 2010. If not, then you'd expect to see something like: "Fatso is noted as an exceptionally long lived cat, as he is still alive as of 2010." Everyking (talk) 04:20, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've rewritten the lead so that it is clear the original video was posted after the cat died (it is possible for cats to live 20 years, so its useful to explain that Fatso had passed away before all this) but to take the recentism out of the death aspect. --MASEM (t) 14:05, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Appearance on Mad

Fatso appeared on the premiere episode of Mad.--DrWho42 (talk) 04:55, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Pistachio commercial

What about the currently running Keyboard Cat commercial for Wonderful Pistachios? Should it be in the broadcast section? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.201.144.231 (talk) 04:48, 1 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lede

Does anyone have any idea what the second paragraph in the lede means? DES (talk) 20:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fatso

According to this interview that Charlie Schmidt did with lovemeow.com - http://lovemeow.com/2009/09/exclusive-interview-on-fatso-the-keyboard-cat-with-charlie-schmidt/ - Fatso was about a year old when the video was originally made. The source from The Guardian says Fatso died in 1987 and from the video Fatso looks much older than three human years. I wanted to use it as a source but there's something in the back of my mind about the interview that is stopping me... NKTP (talk) 14:28, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That doesn't look like a reliable source, particularly compared with other sources in place. --MASEM (t) 14:36, 21 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As I thought. I'll leave it out. Thank you for your input, my friend :) NKTP (talk) 14:26, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Format of “Broadcast appearances” section

At the moment, the section "Broadcast appearances" is rendered as a single long paragraph. Because almost none of the sentences are related to each other, this format strikes me as excessively hard to read. I think the section would probably be easier to follow if refactored into a bulleted list, preferably in chronological order, with one bullet entry for each appearance. — Jaydiem (talk) 21:45, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done. I need to find the chronological order out before I rearrange them though. NKTP (talk) 15:27, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

We favor prose as much as possible, so this really isn't appropriate. We can rewrite the statements to group television appearances, video game appearances, and others to split the para better. --MASEM (t) 15:33, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I'll try and figure something out. NKTP (talk) 15:35, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I just worked out the split, it should read better now. --MASEM (t) 15:36, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not bad :) NKTP (talk) 15:43, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How is it done?

Are those his real arms or a prop?Robinrobin (talk) 06:30, 7 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Internet and cats

Please swing by and help improve this new article! :D--Coin945 (talk) 03:30, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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