About

The Dancing Cat GIF is an animated image of a cat dancing, which has been used on Discord and in YouTube videos.

Origin

This GIF is very old, the oldest known source of this GIF is on the D-PLAYER website, D-PLAYER was a Korean dance training software. The cat herself, named Safa, is based on a real life cat that appeared in the music video "BoA 보아 'Sara' MV". The video only has around 300,000 views on YouTube

Widespread

On February 17th, 2019, a green screen^[1] of Dancing Cat gif was uploaded to YouTube by user "Yurrie", the green screen gained 1,000 views in less than a month. This green screen would later be used in various remixes and memes.