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Quick guide
The rise of AI cat content has sparked a new boom in online pet culture. After being fired, Yunus · Duiguru created "AI Cat Story" with the help of generative AI tools, which quickly attracted a lot of attention on Instagram and TikTok. The popularity of generative AI tools such as Google Gemini and Midjourney, coupled with the rise of video editing apps, has fueled a boom in this emerging content genre. Social media is flooded with AI-generated stories featuring cats, showcasing the emotions and bizarre circumstances of these animals and changing the landscape of the creator economy. Today, cats are an important subject in online content creation, with videos telling simple yet profound stories, exploring basic human emotions and satisfying people's desire for escapism. This trend marks a major change in content creation in the AI era, and the influence of cats continues to expand.
The rise of AI cat content
LOS ANGELES — Yunus · Duiguru had little experience in social media before he was fired. After spending hours watching YouTube videos about generative AI tools, the 30-year-old decided to create content around an eternal online darling – cats. In March, he launched an Instagram account, TikTok page and YouTube channel called "The Story of AI Cats," and began sharing AI-generated, emotive and humorous narrative videos featuring charming, clear-eyed cats. In just a few months, Duiguru has gained more than 109,000 followers on Instagram and millions of views on TikTok. Thanks to the popularity of short videos, similar content has also reached tens of millions of views on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, further fueling a new wave of AI-powered craze for cat-related content on the internet.
The impact of generative AI tools
The explosive growth of generative AI tools such as Google Gemini and Midjourney, coupled with the rise of video editing apps like CapCut, has allowed this emerging genre to flourish. Recently, social media platforms have been flooded with AI-generated cat stories presented in the style of slideshows, depicting the situation of these beloved animals as they appear emotionally strange or disturbing in some moments. This trend, which marks one of the first major content formats to emerge in the AI era, is changing the landscape of the creator economy while also raising concerns about inappropriate content. Cats have historically inspired viral content on the web, influenced the early image-dominated web, spawned memes like "Business Cats", and led the era of viral videos with characters such as "Keyboard Cats". Cat video creators are also at the forefront of building business models around viral fame, with Angry Cats playing a key role in shaping the influencer landscape in the early 2010s.
Escape through cat storytelling
Today, cats are at the forefront of what could lead another major revolution in online content creation, emerging in early viral trends based on AI-generated images that are widely spread on fast-growing platforms like YouTube Shorts. "We've reached a point where the internet is where many want to be disconnected from reality," noted Nick · Nordlinger, managing director of Meme Insiders. "People are eager to escape a world dominated by humans and enter a universe ruled by cats." The stories told in these videos are simple but profound: a cat that loses its mother while shopping at the supermarket, or another cat that has been left behind on a family road trip desperately wants to get home. These intriguing episodes often resonate with basic human emotions, exploring classic themes such as good and evil, tragedy and victory, all without words, often accompanied by pop songs, while lyrics are replaced by the word "meow".