There’s even a growing body of YouTube videos targeted toward cats (aka “cat TV”), featuring footage of birds and squirrels to keep felines occupied while they’re home alone. And search interest in “cat videos” surpassed “dog videos” in 2013. “Cat memes” is also Googled twice as much as “dog memes,” according to Google Trends data shared with MarketWatch. What’s more, searching “cat meme” on Google draws about 198 million results. And this is more than three times the number of videos uploaded during the same time period last year. and more than 18 million uploads of videos related to cats have already been uploaded in 2022, according to YouTube global data shared with MarketWatch. After all, there are millions of cat videos on YouTube Which is perhaps why “Stray” has been like catnip for gamers to share on social media - home of the cat meme. It was still up there on the trending list Wednesday morning, now with 524,000 tweets and counting - although some of those were related to the South Korean boy band Stray Kids, as well.Īnd perhaps the most adorable early trend featured gamers posting videos of their own cats being transfixed by the nameless, pawed protagonist. On both Monday and Tuesday, around the game’s launch, drawing more than 363,000 tweets by late Tuesday afternoon. Your stray soon teams up with a sentient drone named B12 (who can talk to the humanoid robots for your cat character), and the two of you explore the city and solve puzzles to find your way home, discovering what happened to all of the humans along the way - while also avoiding hungry monsters who want to eat this cute kitty up almost as much as the players do. The goal is to get back to the surface world, where your feline friends live.

Some mild spoilers follow: The gist of the game is that you play a lost, stray cat navigating a subterranean city populated by robots.

Google cat game