the reason dogs eclipsed cats as the online animal of choice is because dogs are democratic, and cats are elitist.
and the early internet was very elitist, back when not everyone knew how to use it.
now that everyone knows how to use it, we get dogs.
aren't dogs like your typical redditor? nice. cheerful. hard working. and kind of dumb. nothing wrong with that.
but you need both dogs and cats to make a world. do you think a dog would have the temerity, the sheer breadth of vision, that it took to film Lawrence of Arabia? No way. A dog would be good at directing, say, guardians of the galaxy, and then he'd have a good time and love everyone. Only for a cat is genius imaginable. Only a cat would be dickish enough to re-shoot the same scene a hundred times until the main actress is crying out of boredom and frustration. A dog is just too nice for that.
The reason the image above is so awkward is that these redditors are using doggo language for a cat. Lolspeak is subtly different from doggo language. No trochees. Lolspeak is like a bastardized english, jarring, subversive, etc. Doggospeak is a bastardized bastardized english where the subtlety of "I can haz cheezburgeR?" is lost. and yes, I would really argue there is a gradient of subtlety between "I can haz cheezeburger" and "doggo puppo pupper dogger doge" etc.
Kitter is just a ridiculous phrase. But I don't find the image itself disagreeable.
Not because a cat would be a good class comrade. but because a cat would be exactly the type of pretentious french fucker to keep reading commie tracts long after the blood has been spilled everywhere and the souls of the murdered innocents cry out for justice so loud you have to stuff madeleines in your ears. a dog would be a useful idiot who would bite people, but only after taking orders from the cat, who was educated overseas, in france, and came back to his country to destroy his nation and its people.
cat = pol pot
dog = dumb peasant folk who commit atrocities in the cat's name
you need both in balance to make the world, or it becomes a hell of mediocrity (guardians of the galaxy funniest jokes montage 18 million view) or a hell of elitism (what did derrida mean by this 600 page, unintelligible-except-for-the-parts-which-betray-a-disgusting-inhuman-hatred-of-everything-connected-with-life-and-goodness screed?)
I know I sound like a hater, but I just wanted to express my opinion. I've always found cats a hundred times cuter than dogs. They're cleaner, they're more elegant, and they're much more beautiful imo. (I might just have toxoplasmosis though lol)
The trade off is that a cat is purely aesthetic. when the chips are down, the cat will skip town. the cat will never pull a sled. c'mon. but equally absurd is the idea of a dog lending some aesthetic beauty and grace to a café.
I could talk about dogs and cats like a pre-school kid on ritalin for hours. But I just think it's a very useful metaphor for classifying people, ideas, things in the world, etc.
