I often say I’m a pet culture writer, but lately I don’t know exactly what that means. ‘Cat Lover’ as we know it is kind of embarrassing -- it’s not even culture. It’s buying things for cats, fapping over memes and in-jokes repeatedly, and it’s getting mad likes on the Instagrams.
It’s young people doing mushrooms with cats and training them to do barrel rolls. Queuing passionately for hours, at events around the world, to see the things that Cat Fancy (RIP) wanted them to see. To leave the house with frizzies or not. They don’t know how to dress or behave. GoPro cameras pan across these catastrophes, and often catch the expressions of people who don’t quite know why they themselves aren't dog owners.
‘Cat culture’ is a petri dish of people who know so little about how human social interaction and professional life works that they can concoct online ‘wars’ about social justice or ‘pet journalism ethics,’ straight-faced, and cause genuine human consequences. Because of cats.
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