Viral video/song/app/meme "Nyan Cat"

 Here is a link for 10 straight hours of "Nyan Cat" --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY

 

The "Nyan Cat" video was uploaded on Youtube in April 2011. During 2011, the video ranked 5th on the list of most viewed in Youtube, this year the 3 minute and 37 seconds video has reached over 113 million views. The 10 hour version has 35 million views. The video consists of a cat with the body of a pop tart, leaving a rainbow trail, flying in space and a remixed backing track of the song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" by daniwell, sung by Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. The word "nya" is Japanese for the sound of what a cat makes "meow". 

The Nyan Cat character in the video was originally a GIF animation by Christopher Torres who was doing a donation drive for the Red Cross and was suggested in a live stream video chat to create a cat with a pop tart. The song in the video was originally on Niconico uploaded by user daniwell and another user named "momomomo" remixed the song. 

Here's a link of the original nyan cat song --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN-2L2XcYOg

Nyan Cat has reached onto smartphones. On iTunes it's still currently free and classified as a game as the goal is mainly to play the game as long as you can. 



Source: 
http://popgoestheweek.com/2011/04/pop-profile-the-brains-behind-the-viral-phenomenon-nyan-cat/

By Jesse