Bongo Cat

About

Bongo Cat refers to an animation of a cat appearing to play the bongos that has been used in various remixvideos to make it appear as though the cat is playing along to different songs. After the original video grew popular, people made different versions of the video showing the cat playing other instruments.

Origin

On May 7th, 2018, Twitter user @DitzyFlama responded to Twitter user @StrayRogue's GIF of an animated cat slapping a table by posting a video in which he'd edited the GIF to include bongos and added the song "Athletic" from the Mario soundtrack. The tweet gained over 3,800 retweets and 7,000 likes.