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About
Popcat.click is a clicker website that allows visitors to click on an interactive image of the Pop Cat meme to have it pop its mouth. The site tracks the number of clicks and the visitor's country, with countries competing on a global leaderboard. The website went viral in several countries in August 2021, with users from Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia entering a competition with each other to bring their country to the top position on the leaderboard.
History
In November 2020, the internet meme Pop Cat, an edited video of a cat named Oatmeal opening and closing its mouth, went viral on social media. On December 11th, 2020, University of Sheffield students Ed, Josh and Freddy launched Popcat.click,[1] a clicker website where visitors can click on an image of Pop Cat to have it pop its mouth.
They all liked the meme, realised there wasn’t anywhere you could click on it to make it pop so decided to make it a reality.[2]
On February 9th, 2021, the official Twitter[3] account for the website was launched. The website originally went viral in Brazil, with the Twitter[4][5] account reporting the first one-million pop globally and in Brazil on February 10th, 2020.
The website attracted even larger attention in April 2021 when it went viral in Finland. The official Twitter[6][7] account reported 9 million pops reached by Finland on April 10th and 2.9 billion pops on April 22nd, as the website was banned by several schools in the country.[2]
![Popcat.click 1 Million Worldwide (February 2021) popcat.click @PopCatClick P OP P P 1,000,000 pops OPP 12:50 PM · Feb 10, 2021 · popcat](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/176/777/31d.jpg)
![Popcat.click 2.9 Billion Finland (April 2021) popcat.click @PopCatClick Finland pop +2,900,000,000 pops + 6:49 AM · Apr 22, 2021 · popcat](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/176/779/2d8.jpg)
The website achieved worldwide recognition in August 2021 when it became viral in several Asian countries. In mid-August 2021, the website saw active competition between users from Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia, all trying to bring their countries to the top leaderboard position.
Features
Popcat.click allows visitors to click an interactive image of Pop Cat (Oatmeal), upon which the cat will briefly "pop" its mouth, accompanied by the popping sound associated with the meme. The website tracks the country and the number of clicks made by the users, pooling all clicks made by users from the same country to determine its position on the global leaderboard.
Highlights
In early August 2021, the website went viral in Taiwan and then in several other Asian countries. Between August 8th and 11th, Taiwan[8][9] climbed from 150 million pops to over 2.5 billion pops. On August 11th, Twitter[10] user @cookiemonstaly wrote about the website, with the post gaining over 7,400 retweets and 11,200 likes in one week (shown below).
![@cookiemonstaly Alyssa J. O @cookiemonstaly Malaysia is ranked #27 out of 186 spots on this website where you just tap on the cat to make its mouth pop open РОРСАТ popcat.click POPCAT popcat.click POPCAT POPCAT 87 РОРСАТ Leaderboard 21 Estonia 153.276,534 22 Montenegro 114,766,479 23 Singapore 14.5 PPS 106,738,139 24 Kazakhstan 85,387,714 25 Greece 81.781,496 12:58 PM - Aug 11, 2021 - Twitter for iPhone 7,488 Retweets 2,076 Quote Tweets 11.2K Likes](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/174/662/234.jpg)
Starting in mid-August 2021, the website and the budding competition between users from Taiwan, Thailand and Malaysia became a subject of memes and discussions. For example, on August 12th, the Facebook[11] page A RAY posted a webcomic about the only click logged from North Korea. The post received more than 25,000 reactions and 3,300 shares in one week (shown below, left). On the same day, Facebook[12] page 台灣迷因 taiwan meme posted a screenshot of Taiwan surpassing Finland to take first place on the global leaderboard. The post (shown below, center) gained over 25,000 reactions and 880 shares.
On August 15th, Facebook[13] page Princess Hinghoi posted a Crying Wojak Taiwan #1 meme that received over 8,500 reactions and 1,900 shares in three days (shown below, right).
![@cookiemonstaly Alyssa J. O @cookiemonstaly Malaysia is ranked #27 out of 186 spots on this website where you just tap on the cat to make its mouth pop open РОРСАТ popcat.click POPCAT popcat.click POPCAT POPCAT 87 РОРСАТ Leaderboard 21 Estonia 153.276,534 22 Montenegro 114,766,479 23 Singapore 14.5 PPS 106,738,139 24 Kazakhstan 85,387,714 25 Greece 81.781,496 12:58 PM - Aug 11, 2021 - Twitter for iPhone 7,488 Retweets 2,076 Quote Tweets 11.2K Likes](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/174/662/234.jpg)
![Taiwan Number One!! 台灣迷因taiwan meme August 12 at 9:03 AM -0 ... Taiwan No.1 !!! 大小 A popcat.click POPCAT РСА Leaderboard Worldwide 32,175,575,767 Taiwan 5,404,940,025 + Finland 5,398,960,351 Sweden 4,051,163,278 4 Poland 2,696,160,738 Denmark 2,185,809,142 6. Hungary 1,747,782,114 7 Serbia 1,742,716,960 O 25K 1K Comments 882 Shares](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/176/746/cd0.jpg)
![Taiwan POPCAT Leaderboard Worldwide 58,203,084,122 Taiwan 15,104,996,576 Malaysia 9,686,356,842 Thailand 5,794,604,019 4 Finland 5,417,081,075 Sweden 4,057,067,063 LO](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/174/654/632.jpg)
Traffic
As of August 16th, 2021, the site had logged over 116 billion clicks from users worldwide, with the top leaderboard positions taken by Thailand (42 billion clicks), Taiwan (29 billion clicks) and Malaysia (14 billion clicks).
![Worldwide leaderboard per August 16th, 2021 POPCAT 200 Leaderboard Worldwide 780.2K PPS 116,353,146,407 Thailand 331K PPS 42,366,129,885 Taiwan 374.2K PPS 29,170,390,871 Malaysia 46.3K PPS 14,749,787,054 4 Finland 183.8 PPS 5,442,722,139 Sweden 4,068,148,533 6. Poland 2,702,265,483 7 Denmark 2,194,323,662 8 Hungary 1,750,391,588 9. Serbia 1,743,842,717 10 Croatia 1,435,989,505 11 Czechia 1,154,357,048 Indonesia 8.4K PPS 1,106,300,332 13 *Hong Kong 3.5K PPS 943,998,668 12](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/174/650/752.jpg)
![United States current position per August 16th, 2021 РОРСАТ 202 Leaderboard 15 E Norway 638,786,911 16 North Macedonia 637,015,655 17 Lithuania 618,979,670 18 U Slovakia 490,410,806 19 Romania 373,132,042 20 Russia 365,221,589 21 E United States 156.4 PPS 322,254,275 22 Vietnam 5.6K PPS 294,949,643 23 Armenia 270,571,526 24 Bosnia and Herzegovina 265,356,543 25 Ukraine 232,192,603 26 Singapore 457.3 PPS 230,686,144 27 Cambodia 2K PPS 223,134,731](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/174/651/5f3.jpg)
Various Examples
noooo Thailand😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/177FRV7a3U
— 白粥 (▽) (@WhitePorridge_) August 15, 2021
Popcat in a nutshell#popcatclick #popcat pic.twitter.com/p1cCYg2ufN
— xɪᴍ (@ximmrj2) August 15, 2021
![Thailand, what’s the rush?! #popcatMalaysia #popcat @PopCatClick Syok Рорcat: Taiwan Malaysia Thailand =](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/174/663/ed3.jpg)
![No one is not gonna talk about that 1 click from North Korea? #popcat @middlechildddd No one is not gonna talk about that 1 click from North Korea? #popcat 08:26 AA A popcat.click POPCAT Leaderboard 200 Grenada 472 201 Samoa 354 202 American Samoa 248 203 Liberia 237 204 Eritrea 169 205 Nauru 41 206 Gabon 29 207 Benin 26 208 North Korea 1 PPS = Pops Per Second %3D](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/174/665/264.jpg)
![Rome wasn't built in a day. But today, Thailand must be number 1. Thai people status : #popcat Carrot @StrawHatCrew_ Replying to @PopCatClick Rome wasn't built in a day. But today, Thailand must be number 1 Thai people status : #popcat POPCAT](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/174/666/704.jpg)
Search Interest
External References
[2] The University of Sheffield – Turning ideas into a popping success!
[3] Twitter – @PopCatClick
[4] Twitter – @PopCatClick
[5] Twitter – @PopCatClick
[6] Twitter – @PopCatClick
[7] Twitter – @popcatclick
[8] Twitter – @PopCatClick
[9] Twitter – @PopCatClick
[10] Twitter – @cookiemonstaly
[12] Facebook – 台灣迷因 taiwan meme
[13] Facebook – Princess Hinghoi
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