Behind the Internet: The Rise and Fall of Keyboard Cat

Bad news show first . Guys — Keyboard Catis dead . The same cat you ’re still splice into videos and GIF - ing as fast as your fiddling finger’s breadth can fell is , in all likelihood , rot 6 feet below some characterless , Midwestern backyard . It all encounter one nighttime in 1987 ; our beloved Keyboard Cat ( formerly known as Fatso ) raised his paw to his keyboard to voice one final , solemn note before slipping into eternal , musically - be given kitten sleep .

But in a heartwarming video lament to the fallen felid , Vice ’s Motherboardsat down with Brad O’Farrell , the disseminator of everyone ’s favorite Internet mascot . While it may seem like he ’s been in our animation forever , Keyboard Cat really only first come along in 2007 before gaining his over 29 million purview on YouTube and the kind of web - based notoriety that little millennial boys and girls can only daydream about . You even get to hear from the gently off - place humans who ’s responsible for for the original film itself . The intact picture is strange , unsettling at times , and highly entertaining , much like the very Internet that Keyboard Cat embodied . catch one’s breath in peace , dear friend ; we barely knew ye . [ Motherboard ]

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