Someone is talking about “Bongo Cat” and you don’t know what that is supposed to be? We’ll tell you what’s behind the expression and how you can use it yourself.
Here you can find out what is behind the expression “Bongo Cat”. (Source: Bongo.cat screenshot)
This means Bongo Cat: animated bongo playing cat, meme
The term “Bongo Cat”, from the English “bongo” for “bongo drum” and “cat” for “cat”, refers to an animated cat playing bongos. This animation is a popular internet meme and is used in various remix videos. The cat is not one of the LOLcats.
Origin of Bongo Cat
The “Bongo Cat” started her career on Twitter. Twitter user DitzyFlama replied to StrayRogue’s GIF, which shows an animated cat banging on a table. In the edited video, the table was swapped for bongos and the song “Athletic” from the Super Mario World soundtrack played. Shortly thereafter, “Bongo Cat” also spread to YouTube and eventually flooded the Inet community.
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Since the spring of 2022, a variant of the cat with muscular arms banging on a table has been spreading via the subreddit /r/memes and /r/MemeTemplatesOfficial.
This is how you use Bongo Cat
You can use the phrase “Bongo Cat” yourself to describe the musical cat. As with most memes, “Bongo Cat” has long since taken on a life of its own. In addition to the original bongos, there are countless remixes and parodies in which “Bongo Cat” plays other instruments and has other music as the background.
In addition to its own YouTube channel with many examples, the site Bongo.cat the cat can also be directed itself.
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