HOW I USED CAT VIDEOS TO BECOME A RIGHT WING GRIFTER

MY PROFOUND PSYCHIC CONNECTION TO THE CAT ZEITGEST

Racist MAGA cat chases cherished stereotype Speedy Gonzales.

Funny after all the railing I’ve been doing against the Democrats the first piece of video content I produce is mocking Trumpers. The concept of the video being: what if terminally on-line right-wing culture warriors were cats? Then my idea suddenly became timely.

The idea came when I was perusing Rumble weeks ago. Rumble is known as the right-wing YouTube, (lib news sources call it a “cesspool”). Not everything on there is right-wing — I personally like the “post-duopoly” or contrarian content — but the majority of it is.

When I was searching for various non-political categories that you would find on YouTube like pet videos, make-up tutorials, cooking shows, travel etc. — there isn’t much to be found. The top results for cat videos are seven years old. The top stand-up comedy result is Jim Breuer — because his latest special is filled with conservative political takes — and the few movie essays are all of the “anti-woke” variety. A search for music pops up “America First” radio which is of course a streaming country station. This is because the majority of the audience are conservative males. So only two categories are thriving on Rumble: right-wing podcasts and videogame streaming.

I thought it would be funny to fill the void with tongue-in-cheek right-wing pet content. Perhaps I could become a right-wing grifter on Rumble if they didn’t figure out I was being satirical. But first I needed to learn how to make videos. I watched a tutorial series on the video editing software CapCut and before I was done I was already piecing together screenshots of memes and overlapping them with video. Honestly you could call this video “guy fucks around with CapCut.”

A political Compass Memes version, which was well received.

I was 3/4 done with my little video when I find out that cat memes are all the rage. Why? Because in the presidential debate Trump went into a rant based on something he saw online about Haitian illegal immigrants eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio. It turns out this is based on the flimsy evidence of a video of one mentally ill American woman being accused of eating a cat in a video by police. The real motivation behind this libel is a resentment among Springfield locals towards a steep rise of legal Haitian immigration.

Suddenly AI generated pictures of Trump saving cats were sweeping the internet. These were memes that libs like Jimmy Kimmel used to mock Trump.

People on the right were also making memes about “Cats for Trump.” One of them, of Trump at a rally with cats in the audience, tickled Trump enough that he shared it.

This was extremely similar to a frame I had made for my MAGA CATS video a week before the controversy broke:

It was like I was psychically tuned into the cat zeitgeist.

I was also working on a “Cat in the MAGA Hat” meme:

Someone with better Photoshop skills than I posted this one:

So I combined the two to make a better slide.

Many people who watched the video stopped watching at this point. Hopefully it is not because they took the satire seriously.

For the rest of the video I hit on all the culture war beats. For anything Trumpers hate — immigrants, drag queens, trans Bud Light endorsement, Kamala Kitties, Disney movies with a feminist agenda — I have the MAGA cats hissing. It crescendos with the cat hissing at his own reflection as Alex Jones screams. Then the world blows up.

One idea was to have cats hissing at drag queen story hour. But at the last minute I swapped it out for a video of Divine from the camp classic “Pink Flamingos.” Nothing modern drag queens could do is more offensive or funny than what they did in the 1970s. The reality is that drag queens have become tame and mainstream while the right perceive them as being seducers of the innocent.

One part of this video I want to explore more is the MAGA cats as culture war podcasters. Just have a clip of whatever thing the right doesn’t like this week and have the cats hissing (or dogs barking) into their podcaster microphones. Comedy gold, baby!

Now I’m almost wishing the event didn’t happen. Because the news cycle that made my meme timely also makes it instantly dated. While culture war videos in general can have years of play.

Screw Rumble and its small audience. What I really wanted to do was pay to promote it on YouTube but my ad campaign was refused because “politics.” It would be considered a Trump campaign ad according to the AI, and I’m not a registered SuperPac. So the video was only seen by a select audience. Lolz.

‘Nuff Said.