Chelsey Weber-Smith

But, you know, I just I think it's just easier to disprove something like that than it was back then.

I mean, think of the Blair Witch Project.

Okay, all right.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, really?

Yes.

My excitement is spelling.

Yeah, I mean, I think what it's bringing up for me is, like, one of the things I was originally going to research for our episode, but it just didn't end up going anywhere, was the history of cats and the internet.

And I think it makes sense when you look at the cute cat AI videos, as well as probably bonsai kittens in another way.

But we get this cute version first, right?

We get this, like, engagement with...

a sweeter type of this cat, you know, content.

And the first videos posted were of cats, you know, really early videos on YouTube, cat centric.

And then eventually, once that popularity is proven, people are going to add in their own

spin that's going to continue to get our attention.

But I think that cats being kind of this unofficial mascot of the early internet, it just makes sense that the trajectory went the way that it did and that it continues to do that on like a micro scale where we get these cute cat AI videos that are doing really well.

And then people come in and they say, how do we make these videos go even more?

Well, let's play on base instincts.

Same with bonsai kittens.

So like, yeah, let's just take this thing that is immensely popular and figure out how to hack it using kind of the worst parts of being a person, which are often the parts that you direct attention, you know, you direct your attention toward these things that shock.