{"id":19797,"date":"2025-08-17T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/ai-has-created-a-new-breed-of-cat-video-addictive-disturbing-and-nauseatingly-quick-soap-operas\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:37:23","slug":"ai-has-created-a-new-breed-of-cat-video-addictive-disturbing-and-nauseatingly-quick-soap-operas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/ai-has-created-a-new-breed-of-cat-video-addictive-disturbing-and-nauseatingly-quick-soap-operas\/","title":{"rendered":"AI has created a new breed of cat video: addictive, disturbing and nauseatingly quick soap operas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly soundtracked by cats meowing a Billie Eilish song, these AI-generated fantastias tell tales of cheating, revenge and violence \u2013 and are being watched by millions<\/p>\n<p>At the (tail) end of 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@culted\/video\/7425224479141416224?lang=en\">Billie Eilish sat cross-legged on stage and began to miaow.<\/a> Her fans erupted in harmony, each belting out an off-key miaow of their own. She <em>knows, <\/em>they realised! This is because Eilish\u2019s Oscar-winning track What Was I Made For? \u2013 a lachrymose Barbie cut lamenting adulthood\u2019s entailing ennui \u2013 has become the default soundtrack for a new breed of cat video.<\/p>\n<p>You may recognise it: the song often plays over the top of these AI-generated fantasias featuring a cartoonishly fat cat or an equally buff feline with a suspiciously veiny human body. The cat cheats on her lover, falls pregnant or seeks revenge in a weirdly condensed soap opera. And like all soap operas, these videos are extremely addictive.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/aug\/18\/ai-has-created-a-new-breed-of-cat-video-addictive-disturbing-and-nauseatingly-quick-soap-operas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/124e35003bf14c1024668d7adee20a3f02b68842\/0_0_1874_1500\/master\/1874.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d6d351767d9fec2c3e6807a33e4d5aa9\" title=\"AI has created a new breed of cat video: addictive, disturbing and nauseatingly quick soap operas\" \/>Mostly soundtracked by cats meowing a Billie Eilish song, these AI-generated fantastias tell tales of cheating, revenge and violence \u2013 and are being watched by millions<br \/>\nAt the (tail) end of 2024, Billie Eilish sat cross-legged on stage and began to miaow. Her fans erupted in harmony, each belting out an off-key miaow of their own. She knows, they realised! This is because Eilish\u2019s Oscar-winning track What Was I Made For? \u2013 a lachrymose Barbie cut lamenting adulthood\u2019s entailing ennui \u2013 has become the default soundtrack for a new breed of cat video.<br \/>\nYou may recognise it: the song often plays over the top of these AI-generated fantasias featuring a cartoonishly fat cat or an equally buff feline with a suspiciously veiny human body. The cat cheats on her lover, falls pregnant or seeks revenge in a weirdly condensed soap opera. And like all soap operas, these videos are extremely addictive. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly soundtracked by cats meowing a Billie Eilish song, these AI-generated fantastias tell tales of cheating, revenge and violence \u2013 and are being watched by millions At the (tail) end of 2024, Billie Eilish sat cross-legged on stage and began to miaow. Her fans erupted in harmony, each belting out an off-key miaow of their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/ai-has-created-a-new-breed-of-cat-video-addictive-disturbing-and-nauseatingly-quick-soap-operas\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI has created a new breed of cat video: addictive, disturbing and nauseatingly quick soap operas<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}