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Chelsey Weber-Smith

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424 total appearances

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Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

And it's all very, very unsettling, I think, is the word that comes to mind.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

But also, if you are someone who seeks out the unsettling,

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

go ahead and go watch these videos or watch the Panic World version of this video and you'll get to see it.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I absolutely remember it.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

And we did an episode on Rotten.com.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

So I am pretty intimately connected to these memories because I relived them not so long ago.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I would say maybe around 12, 13, I think is like the era of that type of video.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I was born in 88.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

When were you guys born?

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Close.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Same as Taylor Swift.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

So I definitely was on these types of websites, unfortunately, and I'm sure that it marred me in ways I'll never fully understand.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

But yeah, Bonsai Kittens was definitely something that I thought was real at the time.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I don't know.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Did you guys see this when you were younger?

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

Oh, yeah.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

I really don't know.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

It's like maybe I just hadn't thought about it in a really, really long time until I got back into that world.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

But yeah, I don't know what you're saying makes total sense for sure about it's like looking back at the stuff that we watched.

Panic World
Why AI cat videos are becoming the internet’s newest weird obsession

It's almost like these.