Maru (tomcat)

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Maru
YouTube channel
founding July 10, 2008
channels mugumoga
Subscribers over 600,000
Calls over 350,000,000
Videos over 600

Maru (ま る, Japanese for "circle", "round", born on May 24, 2007) is a male Scottish Fold Cat from Japan, one of the most famous cats on YouTube . With 325 million views, it held the Guinness World Record for the most YouTube views of an individual animal in September 2016 .

Life

Maru was born in 2007. Its owner began to document the kitten's growing up with photos and videos on his blog . In 2008 a video was released showing the cat jumping into a box. The video went viral and made the hangover famous overnight.

The videos that are uploaded to Maru's official video channel are usually a series of several individual clips that are between three and seven minutes long. They show Maru doing various activities. The titles are Japanese and English. Maru's owner is rarely seen, except in a few grooming videos showing her trimming her nails or brushing her ears. Videos with Maru achieved an average of 800,000 views at weddings. He is considered the best known and most popular cat on the internet, especially in Japan. In the western world, Grumpy Cat competes for this title. Nevertheless, there is also a report about him there. So took Entertainment Weekly him along with keyboard cat and Nora in its list of known cat videos on. The New York Times also reported on the hangover.

In 2013 Maru got a playmate named Hana, who has since been featured in some videos.

On March 24, 2017, the Guinness Book of Records named the cat “most watched animal on YouTube”. The exact number of calls on September 22, 2016 was 325,704,506.

A book and DVD called Maru Desu (“I am Maru”) were released in Japan in 2009 . Another DVD followed in 2010 and another book in 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Guinness World Records: Maru - The cat with the record for most watched animal on YouTube - Japan Tour. March 24, 2017, accessed April 17, 2018 (video).
  2. ↑ mugumogu: 耳 掃除 さ れ る ね こ. December 18, 2008, accessed April 17, 2018 (video).
  3. ^ Gideon Lewis-Kraus: In Search of the Heart of the Online Cat-Industrial Complex . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed April 17, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Notable Kitty Videos . In: Entertainment Weekly . August 7, 2009, p. 39 .
  5. ↑ Cat videos! Cat videos! Cat videos! Help us grade the cat videos! In: EW.com . ( ew.com [accessed April 17, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Neil Genzlinger: Woofs and meows Have It (at least on screen) . In: The New York Times . July 23, 2010, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 17, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Mugumogu: Maru desu . Tokimeki Paburisshingu, Tōkyō 2009, ISBN 978-4-04-895128-9 .
  8. ↑ Mugumogu .: motto maru desu . Tokimeki paburisshingu, Tōkyō 2011, ISBN 978-4-04-899043-1 .