Who was that masked cat? (SLYT)

January 4, 2011 9:30 AM

Cat puts on a bunny mask.
posted by zerobyproxy (35 comments total)

Owner puts on bunny mask, puts it on cat, records it taking the thing off, and then reverses the video and puts it on youtube.
posted by empath at 9:36 AM on January 4, 2011 [8 favorites]

Man. 2011 is looking to be a pretty kick-ass year for cat videos.
posted by BeerFilter at 9:38 AM on January 4, 2011 [7 favorites]

I don't know man ... as much as I adore cute cat videos, I think I just realized what my 2011 resolution will be, which is to avoid cute cats on teh internets.
posted by jabberjaw at 9:38 AM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

I feel dumb after reading your comment empath. My bogus cat video radar is broken. Really broken.
posted by zerobyproxy at 9:45 AM on January 4, 2011

Yeah, definitely played in reverse.
posted by crunchland at 9:50 AM on January 4, 2011

thirding or fourthing the "played in reverse" opinion
posted by lampshade at 9:59 AM on January 4, 2011

First line of video description (translated): "This video played in reverse just Mimi wearing hats off, etc."
posted by turducken at 10:07 AM on January 4, 2011

the cat starts saying "I buried Paul".

I thought it was "Google Rawul Pawls"
posted by rough ashlar at 10:11 AM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

It's the weird way the cat's leg moves toward the end that made me think something was strange.
posted by maryr at 10:27 AM on January 4, 2011

It's the idea that a cat would put on a hat that made me think something was strange.

Still, the cat looks insufficiently upset for me to also be upset, and it's a cute video.
posted by aubilenon at 10:30 AM on January 4, 2011

Cats are stupid.
posted by Mister_A at 10:47 AM on January 4, 2011 [2 favorites]

The video cuts off before it shows the cat bringing his owner back to life by telekinetically filling him back up with blood and mending the man's mangled neck with a deft application of suturing, applied via the cat's razor-sharp claws and teeth.
posted by FatherDagon at 10:49 AM on January 4, 2011 [7 favorites]

No discussion of cats and costumes would be complete without the madness that is... CAT PRIN: the tailor of a cat!
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:56 AM on January 4, 2011 [3 favorites]

Cats are stupid.

You're stupid.
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:00 AM on January 4, 2011 [5 favorites]

The thumping tail at the end that usually signals "I hate you I hate you I hate you" or at least "You're workin ma nerves, human" was a giveaway that it was reversed.
posted by medeine at 11:09 AM on January 4, 2011

ALSO IT'S A HAT NOT A MASK! THIS IS TOTALLY BOGUS!
posted by nebulawindphone at 11:15 AM on January 4, 2011

The "fuck youuuu" look the cat gives at the end is a dead-ringer for those Inception captions.
posted by naju at 11:19 AM on January 4, 2011

I love this even if it is fake. That cat is so, "Yeah, what else ya got, stoopid human?"

Owner puts on bunny mask, puts it on cat, records it taking the thing off, and then reverses the video and puts it on youtube.

Julian Assange, is that you?
posted by fuse theorem at 11:32 AM on January 4, 2011

The owner is just saying it was played backwards to lull the bunnies into a false sense of security. Beware, rabbits, cats walk among you in bunny masks!
posted by Joey Michaels at 12:06 PM on January 4, 2011

HATS! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
posted by nebulawindphone at 12:33 PM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

Cats are stupid.

Cats are much more intelligent than dogs. You would never get eight cats to pull a sledge through the snow, for example.
posted by MuffinMan at 12:39 PM on January 4, 2011 [2 favorites]

Doh, i got taken.
posted by Bovine Love at 12:40 PM on January 4, 2011

yeah, me too
posted by bitteroldman at 12:42 PM on January 4, 2011

Anyone who has ever owned a cat knew that this was going to be a reversed video before even opening it. Cats do not put masks over their heads. They do, however, take them off.
posted by Decani at 12:47 PM on January 4, 2011

Q: "But why does that cat do it in reverse?"
A: "Cats are crazy. There is no 'why'."

[I'm sure I missed something.]
posted by Namlit at 12:59 PM on January 4, 2011

Now I want to see a rabbit put on a cat mask. And then I want to see a dog put on a cat mask, then put on a rabbit mask, eat a turducken, and finally reveal the lizard alien master within. Dog turds? They're the shucked souls of the lizard master race, left behind as the invisible puppeteers leave their physical form and merge with the noosphere.

Cat videos are just the Conspiracy softening us up for the final reveal. And when it comes, we shall joyfully praise our new alien overlords.

You read it here first, sheeple.
posted by Devonian at 1:12 PM on January 4, 2011

Beware, rabbits, cats walk among you in bunny masks!

Rabbits are very trusting and have a very poor sense of when something else is disguising itself as a bunny.
posted by maryr at 2:20 PM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

Got me.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 3:02 PM on January 4, 2011

I prefer illusion to despair.
posted by Joe Beese at 4:10 PM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

Me too.
posted by ph00dz at 4:48 PM on January 4, 2011

I prefer to believe that, just before hitting "record," the cat's owner screamed, "God DAMN it, cat! Don't you DARE put on that BUNNY MASK! I MEAN IT!!!"
posted by Rykey at 5:07 PM on January 4, 2011 [1 favorite]

I believe.
posted by facetious at 5:38 PM on January 4, 2011

Cats do not put masks over their heads.

Why no love for everyone's favorite cat?
posted by war wrath of wraith at 7:28 PM on January 4, 2011 [4 favorites]

This is like lost footage from some sort of kitty David Lynch redo of the Shining. Creeeeepy!
posted by helmutdog at 9:50 PM on January 4, 2011

Regardless of it being in reverse still made me laugh
posted by Newcott at 10:56 AM on January 5, 2011