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PanBear said:
The Cat is Like Nope You Staying Right Where You Are
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Looks like a Bonsai Kitten.

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Bonsai Kittens

Bonsai Kittens is an internet hoax that spread the rumor that kittens could be made into ornaments by sealing them in glass containers when they’re still small; their flexible bodies would take the shape of said container as they grew up.
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"Bonsai Kittens was an Internet hoax website claiming that kittens could be made into decorative ornaments by sealing them in glass containers, which forced their bodies to mold into various shapes. The site became the subject of controversy online in 2001 after many animal rights groups filed complaints for its removal, while others defended the existence of the website as a work of satire protected by free speech.

On December 20th, 2000, a group of MIT graduate students launched the website BonsaiKitten[1] under the alias "Dr. Michael Wong Chang." The site featured a how-to guide for making Bonsai Kitten sculptures and a gallery of fabricated Bonsai Kitten images. The website was initially hosted by MIT but it later relocated to a commercial provider. The site's domain BonsaiKitten.com has since become defunct and now it redirects to a ThinkGeek[3] product page for a Bonsai Kitten plush toy, but a mirror of the original site is available on Ding.net.[2]

In December of 2000, the Humane Society of the United States[6] (HSUS) posted a bulletin denouncing the site. On December 22nd, MIT removed the site due to complaints from citizens and other animal rights organizations. After the site resurfaced under the commercial host WEB2010 in January of 2001, the HSUS contacted the provider and the site was taken down again on January 17th, but it immediately returned under an unknown host. On February 22nd, the Associated Press[12] released an article titled "Animal Lovers Not Laughing About Joke Internet Site 'Bonsai Kitten'", revealing that over 25 mirror sites had been shutdown by web providers after receiving similar complaints. The online urban legend repository Snopes[1] includes an entry on Bonsai Kittens labeled as a "false" claim, which features a statement by an anonymous Bonsai Kitten creator who revealed that the website was meant to be satirical. On July 16th, the "antibonsaikittenssociety" Yahoo Group[7] was created. On February 9th, the technology news site Wired[8] published an article titled "FBI Goes After Bonsaikitten.com", reporting that the FBI were investigating the website for violating H.R.1887.ENR[9], a federal law against depictions of animal cruelty. The FBI found that no animals had been harmed.

Parodies
On April 8th, 2004, the graphic art website OmegaGrafix[16] published a page featuring a satirical Bonsai Kitten Christmas ornament (shown below, left). On January 23rd, 2006, the image manipulation website Worth 1000[14] held a contest for members to create photoshopped examples of urban legends, with the winning image referencing the Bonsai Kitten hoax (shown below, right).



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On August 15th, 2008, the YTMND site Kitten in a jar! was created by user isamiracle, which featured several Bonsai Kitten images in the background. Shortly after, other YTMND sites were launched referencing the hoax, including Bonsai Babies!, Square Melons vs. Bonsai, bonsai cats and Bonsai Homestar."
 
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