Kittens Inspired by Kittens
You might remember it as Afternoon with Whistler
The archive has not found a surviving copy.
2008·Early YouTube
A six-year-old narrating a picture book with total conviction about what the cats are thinking.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Afternoon with Whistler
- Spread in
- 2008
- Format
- Video
- Origin
- Origin not yet established
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A six-year-old reads a picture book called Kittens and supplies the dialogue herself, at volume, entirely certain of what each cat is thinking. Posted on 1 September 2008 and rediscovered in 2009, it is the purest example of a genre YouTube invented: a child being funny on purpose in a way no adult could write. TIME later put it thirteenth in a list of the fifty best videos on the site.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
Original source uncertain. This is the earliest copy currently known.
No original upload has been established for this record. The index is showing the earliest copy it currently knows about, and says so rather than guessing.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
