Update on my cousin's accidental fame from a cat video

My cousin filmed his cat getting scared by a cucumber in 2010. He posted it on YouTube for laughs with our family. It got millions of views out of nowhere, and he ended up on TV shows. He says life was simpler before all the attention, and now everyone tries to go viral on purpose.

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the_jana2mo ago

Remember reading how those old viral moments were total accidents. Now everything feels staged and desperate for clicks. His story really shows how much the internet changed in just a decade.

piperschmidt2mo ago

Can we blame @miles72's cousin for all this staged content we see today?

miles722mo ago

That 2010 video is such a perfect example. Does your cousin feel like his silly cat clip directly led to this new try hard vibe, or was that shift already happening?