Meme

Internet Meme Assignment BY: Niki White and Melissa Stepanians

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CCT300 Niki White and Melissa Stepanians Angry Keyboard Cat Remake

We chose to do a remake of the original keyboard cat video except we incorporated two cats in the video; the first cat is very angry and unpleasant while the other is very calm and clueless. The reason why we chose to use two different cats both with opposite personalities is to give our video a different touch from the original except with more humor. Animal videos have proved to be very popular in media, everyone loves animals, and especially animals doing unordinary things, this is why the original key board cat was very popular. Essentially we were afraid of receiving negative feedback on the video since it does involve the using of animals and people may interpret the video as harmful to the cats. The struggle in making animal videos is that if you are making the animal do something in particular there will always be those who say you are hurting the animal although it is not the case. In our case several shots were done of the first cat (the angry one) and some where she was really mad hissing and biting the shirt, this may be funny to those who know the cat because they know she is generally bad tempered and can laugh this video off. In the interest of posting this online we went for a more neutral version where her expression is angry or unimpressed but not hissing mad. No animals were harmed in the making of this video but the public may be unsure of that, in some ways negativity toward the video can prove to be a positive thing since no publicity is bad publicity and our goal is to have this video be very popular. This video is meant to be very random and weird which makes it funny and appealing. People are amused by unordinary and different things because it so hard to comprehend, when do you ever see a cat playing the keyboard? It is very unnatural for cats to play musical instruments therefore to see a cat playing the keyboard wearing a t-shirt it seems as if they are impersonating a human this idea is very weird and to the viewer it is entertaining and funny. This video has the ability to be very popular; we plan on having our meme be very popular therefore we are going to keep promoting it. This video is not targeted to one specific audience since people from all ethnicities, ages, cultures and so on share the same love for animals. This video pertains to an audience because people understand and enjoy animal videos; animal videos have a large amount of fans, they are used to seeing animals performing out of ordinary actions. We understand that in order for our video to be popular it has to be very appealing and different from all the other videos out there on the internet. It is difficult to create a meme and have it reach to great lengths of popularity; the meme has to be very appealing for it to be successful. People have to like it and keep spreading the video for it to become a meme, it cannot be forced, no matter how much we the creator of the meme try to promote our video, it will never be popular without the help of the public who also have to love the meme and take the actions into their own hands to make the video popular. Online trends include animals, and we predict that this trend is never going to fade out. Our meme has had triple the amount of views in the past week as it started out with in the beginning, we have continued to promote it, mainly by facebook and we have had many positive feedbacks. People seem to be very entertained by our angry keyboard cat, although we have had some negative feedback most of it has been positive. Our video has been re-blogged a couple of times and it seems to be gaining fans. We hope to gain a wider fan group and have our video be more popular than the original video and to do that we are going to continue to promote it as much as we can.

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