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The Mean Kitty Song has over 78 million views on YouTube and is one of the biggest videos of all time. Meet Cory and his cats Sparta and Loki, the viral cat sensations that started it all.  Subscribe to The Pet Collective: http://bit.ly/tpcsub Website: http://www.thepetcollective.tv Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thepetcollective Twitter: https://twitter.com/petcollectiveTV Tumblr: http://thepetcollective.tumblr.com Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/petcollectivetv/ Google+: http://gplus.to/thepetcollective  Cory was just messing around on his piano one day and decided to write a song and make a music video inspired by his 'mean kitty' Sparta. Little did he know, that video would be one of the most beloved cat videos of all time. Sparta and Loki have a huge internet following and this is where they are now.   Special Thanks: Cory Williams.   Watch the original Mean Kitty Song here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qit3ALTelOo  Producer: Brittni Brown Camera: Phil Cruess, Dan Delorenzo, Hai-Lam Phan. Associate Producer: Matthew Pagourgis Editor: Phil Cruess  Featuring:   Emily Huh, Cheezburger Carol Hartsell, Huffington Post Comedy Katla McGlynn, Huffington Post Comedy Amanda Ferri, Tumblr

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00:00Before YouTube I was just a guy that liked to make videos, home movies, until one day

00:09I made a video about my cat, which wasn't necessarily meant to be such a big deal.

00:13To be honest, I never thought I would actually be the guy with the cat.

00:27When I pressed that upload button and I watched it go public, I closed my eyes and I said

00:33please, please, please, please, please don't hate me.

00:36It was instantly number one most viewed, number one most favored on YouTube.

00:41It just kept going and going and going.

00:44I was just shocked.

00:47My mom called me and she said that she was standing in line at a grocery store and she

00:51heard someone's phone go off with a mean kitty song and she said she was so proud.

00:56Hi, my name is Corey Williams and my cats are Sparta and Loki.

01:03My relationship with Sparta and Loki, it's pure love.

01:07They're very interesting, very, very interesting.

01:12Sparta was actually found by one of my friends.

01:15They were living in this town and this little girl was going door to door trying to find

01:19these little kittens a home and he was the last of the litter.

01:22This little girl said if she can't get rid of this kitten that they're going to have

01:25to take it in to a shelter and chances are, you know.

01:29My friend says, hey, Corey, can you please take this little kitten off me?

01:33And I'm like, dude, seriously, I am not ready for a cat.

01:36But then he started playing with me.

01:38He started wrestling with me and he was just so full of love and he fell asleep on my lap

01:42and when my friend looked over and saw the cat sleeping on my lap, he's like, all right,

01:45dude, that cat is yours.

01:47So, yes, I took the cat home.

01:51I write a lot of music in my off time.

01:54Let's try this one.

01:56One day my cat just kept coming up and I was like, all right, fine.

01:59So I was petting him playing this song and he'd wrestle with me and I'm like, all right,

02:02cool, then I'm going to start writing this about you.

02:04And so I thought about all the little things that Sparta would do.

02:08Meat Kitty is a rap song from what is basically the stone age of internet content.

02:14These other social platforms that are here today, they weren't around.

02:17We didn't have Twitter.

02:18Facebook wasn't something that was really strong.

02:21A lot of these other sites just weren't as big and as powerful as YouTube.

02:25It's an adorable song.

02:26This guy wrote a song about his kitten that he'd just gotten.

02:29It doesn't hurt that the guy is kind of good looking and he's dancing all around his apartment

02:33with his mean cat.

02:38I don't consider myself a rapper by any means.

02:41I think the rapping is fun.

02:42It's catchy.

02:43When I first saw this video six years ago, I actually would get the Mean Kitty rap stuck in my head.

02:57I wonder if he finds this embarrassing now.

02:59I just do what I do because I think it's funny.

03:03It sort of follows another internet premise, which is that cats definitely are out to get us.

03:13He's a kitty and I feel like he has a bad rep.

03:17If I had the same reputation that I had when I was a child, nobody would want to hang out with me.

03:22If my cat pees on my bed if I move a chair, that is me.

03:30Spart is not actually Mean Kitty.

03:31In fact, he's one of the most loving cats I've ever had.

03:34He's like a baby.

03:39Yeah, that's just a stage name.

03:42You can stop me all you want, but I'm not your prey.

03:44You always seem to find me first, but not today.

03:46People, for some reason, I don't know why, they think Sparta has passed on.

03:51No, he is alive and well.

03:56It's sort of taken on this nostalgic quality now.

03:58That song is going to live on forever.

04:03Anything like that, like a rap song that can kind of hold up over time, you can still enjoy that years after.

04:08Right now I currently have 556,000 subscribers and the Mean Kitty song has 76 million hits.

04:19That video continues in popularity with still being six years old due to the relatability.

04:24People love cat videos because cats are innocent.

04:29Cats are just cats and they're goofy as they are.

04:31What also is really interesting about it is it's a man with his cat versus always just seeing the stereotypical crazy cat lady.

04:38You have this macho guy who is totally in love with his cat.

04:44It's catnip for women.

04:48It tells people that he's probably pretty sweet.

04:52These are my kids.

04:54As long as you continue giving them that love, they will give you that love back.

04:58My cats have changed my life.

05:02The closer that you get with them, the more interesting and funny things that they'll do around you.

05:07You can do just about anything.

05:11Every now and then I look back at the Mean Kitty song to read the comments

05:14because I still like to see that people are loving it.

05:17I never really expected any of this.

05:19I never expected to still be here today talking about something that happened seven years ago.

05:25I know how well it's doing for people and what it's going to do for cats.

05:30It's a good thing. It's just a good thing.

05:33I love it.

05:34Everything, every inch of the way.

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