Cat Keyboard is an Internet meme. It consists of a video of a 1984 female cat called "Fatso" wearing a blue shirt and "playing" an optimistic rhythm on an electronic keyboard. The video was posted to YouTube under the title "charlie schmidt's cool cats" in June 2007. Schmidt later changed the title to "Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat (THE ORIGINAL)".
Fatso (who died in 1987) was owned (and manipulated in the video) by Charlie Schmidt of Spokane, Washington, USA. Later, Brad O'Farrell, who is the syndicated manager of the video site My Damn Channel, obtained Schmidt's license to reuse the tape, adding it to the end of an unpleasant video to "play" the person off the stage after mistakes or mistakes in a way just like getting a hook in the days of vaudeville. The addition of Schmidt videos to other bloopers and other viral videos becomes popular, with such videos usually accompanied by the title Play Him Off, Cat Keyboard or variants. "Cat Keyboards" ranked 2nd in the list of 50 widest current TV Video Viruses.
Then, in 2009, Schmidt became the owner of Bento, another cat resembling Fatso, and which he used to create a new Cat Keyboard video, until the death of Bento in March 2018.
Video Keyboard Cat
Video
The first "Cat Keyboard" video, titled "Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat" was created by Brad O'Farrell, both of whom received Schmidt's license to use the recording and asked Schmidt to allow anyone to use the tape with or without permission. More than four thousand such videos are now available, with websites created to collect them.
Maps Keyboard Cat
Other appearances
Cat Keyboard memes have been forged several times on television. The Cat keyboard was popularized by Stephen Colbert on May 18, 2009, during "sweepstakes" with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . At the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, opening monologue Andy Samberg suggested that the award winner whose speech lasted too long would be played by Cat Keyboard. Kato Kaelin also typed the Cat Keyboard in the Tosh.0 segment titled "Keyboard Kato" in the first episode series. A television commercial for Wonderful Pistachios featuring Bento, Cat Keyboard's current Charlie Schmidt, broke one of his nuts during the song. Bento died on March 8, 2018. In the episode Mad "Avaturd/CSiCarly", Cat Keyboard is featured as a Na'vi music leader along with other famous blue characters in James Cameron's Cameron joke Avatar .
The memes also appear in various video games. In the Nintendo DS game, Scribblenauts , where players can call multiple objects to help solve the puzzle, Cat Keyboard appears as one of several Internet memes that can be called in the game. The time of the popularity of Cat Keyboard memes with the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo Convention is considered to be partly responsible for the success of Scribblenauts during the convention. Easter eggs in Activision Blizzard announcement for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm reveals game antagonist Deathwing plays keyboard with text "Cataclysm Keyboard: Play 'em Off, Deathwing". A video teaser from Ubisoft for the video game Splinter Cell: Conviction, titled "Play Him Off, Keyboard Sam" parody of the Cat Keyboard theme. Xbox Live Arcade Remake Earthworm Jim includes additional content, including one boss character inspired by Cat Keyboard. The animated series, Transformers: Rescue Bots "Shake Up" has a reference to the Cat Keyboard in a Frankie Greene video, describing the cat playing the keyboard in the same way.
During the summer of 2009 Weezer with Blink-182, Cat Keyboard will play the band off every night at the end of their set.
The Keyboard Cat is featured in a cinema that promotes the UK EE telecommunications network, and most recently on a 2014 reboot Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .
Cat keyboard also appeared and revealed himself as a fan of Carolina Panthers in the National Football League ad that aired for the first time during Super Bowl XLIX.
Cat Keyboard appeared in one episode of Hawaii Five-0 Season 6 Episode 22.
On the popular online game homepage of Bin Weevils, one can catch a glimpse of a large television screen in Drive-In Cinema where the Cat Keyboard "bin pet" is viewable.
Other memes
Meme Keyboard Cats have been integrated into other memes. An 8-bit version of both cats and songs has been created. Threadless online clothing retailer sells "Three Moon Cat Moon" T-shirts based on the famous Three Wolves Moon design; T-shirt design is one of the most popular owned companies, and they have difficulty in meeting the demand of the shirt. The shirt appeared in a television commercial for the release of the PlayStation 3 Slim game console. G4TV's Attack of the Show held a Great American Keyboard Cat Competition to give viewers the opportunity to create their own inspired Cat Keyboard art, with over a hundred pieces submitted. Some of the top works from this are awarded for Kitten Rescue charity to be auctioned through eBay. The MLB AL East Champion Tampa Bay Rays use a variation known as "Rays Keyboard Kitty" (they also have one called "DJ Kitty") to raise the crowd during the late-season run, using the same cat in Rays teeth in some segments. On April 1, 2011, YouTube released a video featuring "5 Best Viral Pictures of 1911", including a Parody of the Keyboard Cat titled "Flugelhorn Feline".
There are also a number of videos where other music has been replaced for the original song. For example, at the peak of the popularity of the podcast Serial , a YouTube video was released that showed the Cat Keyboard "play" the Serial theme song.
In one instance, the Cat Keyboard was added to the end of the Desperate Lives segment (1982), a movie made for a TV starring Helen Hunt that demonstrates the effects of drug use (with Cat Keyboard started after the Hunt Character falls out window and suffering overdose); after the video, the submitter then coats the Cat Keyboard in the music video for Hall & amp; Oates' "You Make My Dreams". The music video segment has been jokingly named by some of the "greatest music videos ever." While the video is still on YouTube, copyright issues with Warner Music Group have forced YouTube to disable audio. The move has alerted groups concerned about copyright and remix culture to warn about potential limits of creative expression through such actions.
Claim
On June 21, 2011, Schmidt filed a lawsuit in Seattle Federal Court against Threadless for their line of Three Monthly Cat T-shirts in 2009, a popular Three Wolves Moon meme shipment, due to copyright infringement. Threadless counter-claim by stating that Schmidt's copyright claim was not approved until September 22, 2010, more than a year after the production of T-shirts, and that Schmidt had lost his copyright when he asked people to submit videos that paid tribute to Fatso. Until May 2013, this lawsuit has been resolved.
In May 2013, Schmidt and Christopher Torres, creators of Nyan Cats, jointly sued Cell and Warner Bros. 5 for copyright infringement and trademark infringement on the appearance of these characters without permission in the Scribblenauts video series > match. Torres and Schmidt have registered copyright on their characters and have pending trademark applications on behalf of. Meme's manager, Ben Lashes who manages them and Grumpy Cat, Scumbag Steve, and Guy Photogenic the Mute. The lawsuit was settled in September 2013, with Torres and Schmidt being paid for character use.
See also
- Cat organ
- Cat and the Internet
- List of internet phenomena
References
External links
- Charlie Schmidt's Site
- A set of videos featuring Cat Keyboard
- Keyboard Cat Church
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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