Guinness World Records Submission #8
Internet’s First Cat Video Star
Evidence Overview
During the Christmas season in the mid-1990s, a short segment was recorded of the family cat, Kaditos. The segment was edited into a Christmas music video and shown on local public-access cable as part of THE HOMETOWN programming.
When THE HOMETOWN began moving online in 1997, that Christmas video was among the early clips digitized and uploaded to You-On-Tv.com.
This submission presents Kaditos as the Internet’s first cat video star: a character-driven pet moment produced for television and then brought onto the web years before “cat videos” became a standard internet genre.
Evidence Items
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Primary meme (above)
Promotional meme created from the original Christmas video. -
Christmas video upload
Digitized version of the original Christmas music video segment featuring Kaditos — View Evidence