Cats Jamming to CatJAM

About

Cats Jamming to CatJAM is a TikTok video trend in which participants position a cat in front of a phone playing the video Cat Vibing to Street Musician's Ievan Polkka and apparently moving the cat's head to create the illusion that the animal is bobbing its head to the rhythm of the song.

Origin

On April 15th, 2020, TikTok user micklagi posted the original CatJAM video of a white cat rhythmically bobbing its head as if to the beat of a song accompanied by EDM track "I Wanna Dance" by Jonas Blue. The video received over 239,700 views and 17,000 likes in four months (shown below). It appears as if the cat's head is being pushed by a person.

On October 18th, 2020, Twitter^[1] user @wonamaewa replied with an edit in which Vibing Cat was edited in, with the post gaining over 220 retweets, 1,800 likes and 45,400 views before being deleted (mirror below).

On March 1st, 2021, TikToker @rafayrocio21 posted the earliest known version of the Cats Jamming to CatJAM meme. The post received more than 14 million views, 2.6 million reactions and 32,000 comments in less than two months (shown below).

Spread

Following the post, others began participating in the trend with other cats. On March 12th, 2021, TikToker stephfatone posted a version that received more than 56 million views, 6.3 million reactions and 65,000 comments in less than one month (shown below, left). Later that month, on March 27th, TikToker @albertcat_ posted a version that received more than 21 million views, 2.6 million reactions and 28,000 comments in less than two weeks (shown below, right).

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