Q: Last April, your video got a great flux of visitors and viewers, following its repost on Buzzfeed, entitled Standing Cat is Watching You. What was your reaction as a result of this sudden fame and web interest in your video?

A: It was sorta unbelievable. The video had already been posted for a somewhat short period of time on Youtube, but I didn't really reference it as rightly as I wanted to, so there were very few visits, and not as often. And suddenly, a big buzz! It was kind of cool. I especially enjoyed people's comments on it, mainly those regarding their "concern" about a cat species' evolution and so forth! Then, quickly, French and foreign TV stations started broadcasting my video, which was as much unbelievable!

Q: Do you know about LOLcats? Do you think it can have been of any influence, either to you and the filming process with your cat, especially concerning the music track (Cats on Mars – CowBoy BeBop OST) you added which kind of embodies the weird situation and cats, or to the people interest in it?

A: Yes, I do know about that website, and I really like the pictures, being myself a cat lover. But I don't think it would have influenced me because my main hobby is to have my cat doing strange things on camera! Cats have that special gift to do funny things without them knowing it! If I added a music track, it's because, without sound, a video is less funny. So I searched for a track that would give a more offbeat side to the video, and my brother gave me a hand by saying "Hey, do you remember about that CowBoy BeBop track?". I found it to be a perfect fit for the video, and I quickly realized that, reading the Youtube's comments, it was indeed a good choice!

Q: You must have noticed. Your video gave birth to a great amount of parodies, picturing your cat as "Super Kitty", making him explode or having him as a Musketeer and many other things. What do you think about those parodies? Do you see them as a tribute to your video?
The same way, You asked Youtube to take down at least 3 of these parodies, for the time being, due to copyright claims coming from you. Can you add some more detail concerning it?

A: I do not like seeing people copy my video as it is and reupload it on another Youtube account. Following the buzz, dozens of people stole my video and reposted it, some even claiming to own the original one! I don't know what motivates people to do this, and it deeply unnerves me. So I forced the one I consider as being simply plagiarism to be taken down. Among those videos, there may have been some that pretended they were parodies, but I didn't see it that way.
Concerning the ones that have made a great work, like the musketeer one, here I'm gladly leaving it, because the creator is respecting the initial video. I don't know if we can really talk about a "tribute" per se, but they are great videos anyway, which make many people laugh, so I don't see why I would ask for deleting them.

Q: In the "Le Post" article, you talked about another video you were going to post, in which your cat is sitted in a weird way. Can you tell us more about when that video is going to be posted? Do you think it will attract as much attention as your previous video?

A: Actually I almost forgot about it! It's a video filmed at the same moment, unless in that case he is sitted, and once again it's hilarious. If I forgot, it's mainly because, following the initial video's fame, I have received and am still receiving solicitations everyday for interviews, or to reuse my video for TV shows and so on… And it's a great painstacking process to be my cat's impresario!! On the other hand, I'm sure it won't get the same interest. I mean, yeah that video is funny as well. But, in the first one, what my cat was doing was more amazing, challenging the laws of physics as some comments pointed it out! But why not, I have to work on it.

Q: Last but not least, a question that many people are asking themselves. What the hell is Rocky looking at throughout the window?

A: Ahah! Do I have to uncover that mystery?! In earnest, I don't know myself! In my humble opinion, birds! Actually, Rocky is staring at a small window, too high on the wall for him to watch through it without doing some acrobatic maneuvers. And, because this window leads to a rooftop view, we can see birds passing by, flying, which of course, captivate him so much!

Q: Thank you very much for your time and for answering these questions.

It was my pleasure ^^

Q: You give props to Adobe After Effects as choice of weapon; how long did it take you to edit & publish this video? And how long have you been editing videos in general?

A: Originally, we were just going to put the boots on the cat, which only took twenty minutes. Then Brandon, the other guy behind my channel, suggested we add a hat. Then a belt. Then a sword. Then to make the sword swing around. And then to replace the GTA poster with a cat meme. And then to add ceiling cat. And then to go downstairs and grab my roommates cat to add him. And then to go to Olvera St. in LA to buy a small cat guitar and small cat hat (if you need cat sized, Mexican themed props, this is the place to go). We basically pulled an all nighter for a cat video, which we're more proud of than any last minute essay we made for college.

Q: And your friend's cat, Plato (the mariachi cat). How did you work that into the video? …Is Plato capable of standing on two feet as well?

A: We felt the video needed music, but at approximately 2 in the morning, we decided another cat should play that music. Plato is in fact capable of standing on his two feet like a lemur, but has never done it for as long as Standing Cat has, who probably holds some kind of Cat World Record.

Q: Like you've mentioned in video description, those boots and mariachi aesthetics look really appropriate with the standing cat. If you remember, how did this idea come about? What were you thinking?

A: Someone commented on another Standing Cat video asking the uploader to "add boots" to the cat, and a lot of people liked this comment. We looked around the internet and felt that the men for the job were the ones in the mirror. You gotta give the people what they want, like that quote from Lawrence of Arabia: "The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!" …So that was pretty much the thinking.

Q: Noticed there's a couple of other internet-famous cats making guest appearance in the video. If you had to pick your "favorite LOLcat", which one would it be?

A: My favorite LOLcat isn't really a cat, but the Bucket Walrus (*) is my favorite thing of all time. Brandon is partial to the original "God kills a kitten" (*) cat.

Q: In all serious seriousness, we're talking about cats that can stand (and even walk) on their own, like people do. Is this something we should be wary of? What are your thoughts on bipedal cats?

A: Nuke from orbit. (*)