Monorail Cat (2006)

Origin

One of the earliest pictures of monorail cat found is from the website catmas.com’s blog section, dated from November 2, 2006. The picture is of a cat flopped over a metal-framed mirror, which makes the cat look like a monorail.

The cat’s legs are not visible in the picture. The original monorail cat picture was brought to ICanHasCheezburger on January 12, 2007. Since then, it has been a staple lolcat on ICHC. Many pictures are submitted to the site having to do with a monorail cat or dog. Now it is one of the most famous lolcats around.

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h2. Origin

One of the earliest pictures of monorail cat found is from the website catmas.com’s blog section, dated from November 2, 2006. The picture is of a cat flopped over a metal-framed mirror, which makes the cat look like a monorail.

The cat’s legs are not visible in the picture. The original monorail cat picture was brought to ICanHasCheezburger on January 12, 2007. Since then, it has been a staple lolcat on ICHC. Many pictures are submitted to the site having to do with a monorail cat or dog. Now it is one of the most famous lolcats around.

It is more likely that Monorail cat was one of the first products of /b/’s Caturday, as is evident from the Google Insights Trend.

Derivatives

The original picture of the cat is most certainly not the only picture of a “monorail cat”. Many pictures contain a cat “derailing” from its “track”, getting “new features”, or simply just lying down. Monorail cat even got a website: http://monorailcat.com/. Monorail cat got a shirt as well. If you type “monorail cat” into the game Scribblenauts, you will get a “weird hidden object.”

The first YTMND was created by Cataclaw
on December 2nd, 2006, and has over 50,000 views.

• The first Monorail Cat YTMND|

• Monorail Cat
• Monorail cat on his way
• Monorail cat makes a stop
• Monorail cat needs to get where he’s going
• Monorail cat not amused

There have been a total of 15 Monorail Cat YTMNDs created as of November 13th, 2009.

• See the most up to date YTMND stats.