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Zoom Cat Lawyer

You might remember it as I'm not a cat, Rod Ponton cat filter

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2021·Short-form and streams·funny

A recording of a court hearing held by video call, in which a lawyer appears on screen as a kitten because of a filter and tells the judge he is not a cat.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
I'm not a cat
Spread in
2021
Began as
A video upload
Where it started
YouTube
Format
Video
Era
Short-form and streams
Who or what it shows
Rod Ponton, a lawyer
Where
A hearing of the 394th Judicial District Court of Texas, held by video during the pandemic
What it said
“I’m here live. I’m not a cat.”
Original title
Kitten Zoom Filter Mishap
Origin
Origin not yet established
Available
Playable from the source

Why it matteredWhat changed

A lawyer appeared at an online court hearing as a kitten and could not turn it off. The court itself published the recording, and it was viewed more than 26 million times on Twitter.

What people misrememberSet straight

Commonly remembered asSomebody leaked it.

ActuallyThe court streamed the hearing and published the clip itself.1

Commonly remembered asHe had put the filter on.

ActuallyBy his account he was using his assistant’s ten-year-old computer, and somebody else had last used the filter.1

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Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · a moment that changed what the internet did next · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

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Where it came fromWhat we know

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Where
Known on YouTube.

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Zoom Cat Lawyer
  2. CNN — Lawyer tells judge ‘I’m not a cat’ after a Zoom filter mishap

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