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Encyclopedic overview
Nyan Cat Nyan Cat is a YouTube video uploaded in April 2011, which became an Internet meme. The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon cat with a Pop-Tart for a torso flying through space and leaving a rainbow trail behind. The video ranked at number five on the list of most viewed YouTube videos in 2011.
Origin
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nyan Cat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.