Katie (Goat Story)

About

Katie or Katy is a character in the 2008 Czech movie Goat Story:The Old Prague Legends. The character gained an ironic following due to her uncanny and exaggerated design, inspiring several online communities like Twitter and Reddit to create reaction images using clips of the character.

Background

Katie is a city girl and a love interest character in the movie Goat Story, which premiered on October 18th, 2008 in the Czech Republic.^[1] The character supplies forged nails for the construction of a bridge in Prague and ends up being kidnapped by the villains, who threaten her execution should the main character Jemmy fail to repair an astronomical clock in time.

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Online History

On October 28th, 2008, the YouTube^[2] channel of the studio behind the film released a trailer of the Goat Story movie captioned in English. The trailer (shown below) garnered 32,400 views and 156 likes in 15 years.

A few years later, on October 20th, 2015, @AAAstudio uploaded the full movie on YouTube.^[3] The post (shown below) garnered 2 million views and 13,000 likes in eight years.

Katie's Reaction Videos

On June 20th, 2023, clips featuring the character Katie started to go viral on Twitter. One of the earliest videos has Katie giggling, which was uploaded by Twitter^[4] user @hendriiux as a response to a tweet about Beyoncé. The post (shown below) garnered 6,000 views and 26 likes in a week.

girl ain’t she the devil lady according to you 👀 https://t.co/SnroE6Uw4A pic.twitter.com/QLe9zPCCpi

— yuh🦋✰ (@hendriiux) June 4, 2023

Over the next week, several other clips began to appear on Twitter, shared by meme pages and as ironic fandom posts. For instance, Twitter^[5] user @fabbgrat posted another clip of the character giggling, adding the caption "Katy from Goat Story has climbed to #1 on this week's stan Twitter memes." The post (shown below) garnered 120,000 views and 3,900 likes in three days.

katy from goat story has climbed to #1 on this week's stan twitter memes hot100 chart, a new peak more than a year after her debut on the tl!pic.twitter.com/2nSG50msEq

— fab (@fabbgrat) June 24, 2023

Fan Art

On December 21st, 2020, Deviantart^[6] user @tmntsam uploaded a fan art drawing of Katie (shown below) garnering 124 favorites and 19 comments in three years.

Notable Examples

Search Interest

External References