00:00Kittens! Inspired by kittens!
00:06Kittens Inspired by Kittens is a piece of only the finest American literature.
00:13Me, when I was six, trying to narrate a non-fiction book about cats.
00:19Cuckoo, cuckoo!
00:21It's so simple, but so brilliant.
00:24We are wine bottles!
00:26This girl is really creative.
00:28I'm at work!
00:29She's basically, like, captioning on the spot.
00:31Rainstorm!
00:33This little girl told us all we ever needed to know about what cats are thinking.
00:37Magic!
00:39She did us a great service.
00:40I am a secret agent!
00:43None of that was planned, and I don't know how I came up with it, but I did.
00:47Absolutely my favorite thing I've ever seen.
00:59Hi, I'm Maddie, and I'm the Kittens Inspired by Kittens girl.
01:08My dad actually posted it on Facebook.
01:11His friends really liked it.
01:13They kept sending it to their friends and their friends and their friends until a website picked it up.
01:18People kept looking at it and looking at it.
01:22I never thought something like that would ever happen.
01:25I did get a lot of people recognizing me.
01:28They were happy that they got to meet me.
01:30Kittens Inspired by Kittens!
01:33How I normally describe it was, I went to the library, and I found this book about cats.
01:40And I got excited, because they're cats.
01:45I started looking at it, and I got bored, so I guess I started pointing to them and making funny voices and stuff.
01:50She was just saying what the kittens were doing, and it was really bizarre.
01:55I said to my husband, you should film that.
01:57My dad asked me to come in, and he started recording me flipping the pages and stuff.
02:01I just came up with something on the spot.
02:04We just posted it for her grandparents to see and a couple of our friends.
02:09All of a sudden, it started going viral.
02:12So many people just think what I did was hilarious.
02:16And a lot of comments actually explain why people like the video, and I love to hear those.
02:23I loved those comments so much that my dad showed me.
02:26He actually made it into a book.
02:30I think my favorite part is, I want pie and I want beef jerky.
02:33I'm sure kittens are thinking, I want beef jerky, I want pie, type of thing.
02:36So I think she's on to something.
02:37I didn't know what beef jerky meant when I said that.
02:40I want pie, I want beef jerky!
02:43That cracks me up every time I see it.
02:44It just starts off with a home run.
02:46Kittens Inspired by Kittens!
02:48She has this moment, it's my favorite thing.
02:50One cat says, I'm bored.
02:52The other cat says, aren't you?
02:54And it goes back to the other cat, it's like, I am too.
02:57Yes! Yes!
02:59She pans on to the gray cat and says, I'm your mom!
03:02And then pans down to the white cat and they're like, no she's not!
03:08The girl's just saying anything that comes to her mind.
03:11We, as adults, we wish we could do that.
03:13It's just random.
03:16Completely out of the blue.
03:18I have to go potty!
03:21Move down to my feet.
03:22No plans, no rehearsals.
03:26You've got two great things that make a video adorable.
03:31I'm a magician!
03:33A cute kid.
03:34I'm a rabbit!
03:35And then you've got kittens.
03:36Wrestling!
03:38It's pretty much internet gold.
03:39The authenticity of it.
03:40Hungry!
03:41Absolutely transcendent.
03:43This is just a kid interacting with their world and being funny the way kids are.
03:47I do and still really obsessed with cats.
03:52I have two cats.
03:56I'm a cat lover.
03:59Young kids always seem to make funny jokes because they don't understand a lot of things.
04:03Everything about viral videos goes back to relatability.
04:08We are in Hawaii!
04:10Everyone's been a child at one point.
04:11You can try to plan stuff like that, but it's not going to feel like you just saw a piece of someone's life like that does.
04:17So it's pretty special.
04:20We decided that since so many people liked the video, we thought we might make merchandise.
04:25So we have mouse pads, keychains, and phone cases.
04:28All with pictures of the video and little captions.
04:32We also have a Facebook page for kittens by kittens.
04:35I like to look at what some people post on the wall sometimes.
04:38Really funny stuff.
04:41I spend all of my day that I possibly can on the internet.
04:46With YouTube, you can look at other people. You can see what other people are doing.
04:50And it's not so much as stalking, just as being a fan.
04:54And nobody judges you for it.
04:57I think that's what a lot of people like about YouTube, including myself.
05:02People like videos that aren't planned.
05:05That nobody thought of ahead of time.
05:09Because those ones end up to be funny.
05:11When you're just recording out of the blue, it doesn't matter if you mess up.
05:15If you want a viral video, just keep posting.
05:17Keep posting things you like and you think other people like.
05:20And eventually, maybe it'll become viral.
05:23And also, another piece of advice is, if you really are having trouble, just post a bunch of videos of cats.
05:30Because one of them is bound to be good.
05:34Kittens! Inspired by kittens!
05:38Thanks for watching!
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