Everybody loves the Jesus Cat. (371k .swf with sound)
Jason Scott explains:
I happened to show this to an IRC channel, and linked to a “stuff I have lying around” directory on one of my servers.
Two days later, 91,000 people visited.
And it was that specific URL too, and since I didn’t put it anywhere other than that channel, once, it meant someone gave it to someone else, or pasted it in another IRC channel, and then it just exploded outward. I see 3,000 matches for the original URL, and if you spend the time browsing them, you find lots of commentary. I’ll save you time and tell you the general responses:
- Hilarious!
- Stupid.
- That cat’s not REALLY walking on water.
- This reminds me of endless other cat stuff HERE’S SOME LINKS
- I will now riff on the idea of a cat as a savior for the next paragraph.
91,000 throws it way past anything I’ve done, ever with regards to serving a popular file. Some of the others might have more longevity over the Jesus Cat (the Goatse article, for example, is still packing them in a year later) but for sheer popularity, Jesus Cat stands above them all.
God bless his wet, matted little fur.