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🗓️ 17 September 2015
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Maybe you have a cat. |
0:01.2 | And it's very likely if you have a cat that you take photographs of that cat. |
0:06.1 | But there's something you should know before you do that. |
0:08.8 | Kevin used to work at Iken has Cheesburger. |
0:11.8 | Yeah, so the main, the flagship site |
0:14.4 | was called ICANN a Cheeseburger, |
0:15.7 | and they're basically, each coach is a law cat. |
0:18.2 | Basically, people would upload images of their cats, |
0:21.0 | caption it, and then also once their cat photo was uploaded |
0:25.0 | anyone else could caption it as well and then we go into this voting system |
0:28.8 | for the community the community would vote up a certain number and then from like a pool we would editorially choose which ones appeared on the site. |
0:38.0 | So you were told very early on that there was a rule about the types of posts that could go up. |
0:45.0 | Yeah, and really it was strange because there was only one like real rule that wasn't an obvious one anyway that we are not supposed to post any pictures of sleeping cats. |
0:55.0 | No sleeping cats. |
0:57.0 | No sleeping cats. |
0:58.0 | And which is strange because I think sleeping cats, especially kittens are absolutely adorable. |
1:02.9 | And that's entirely what the site is based on kind of that awe factor. |
1:08.2 | My bopoeck might be on the first day, |
1:09.8 | it's no sleeping cats because people in the comments would often you know they wouldn't be sure |
1:15.3 | if the cats were sleeping or dead. |
1:17.3 | Well was this a lesson that had to be learned? |
1:20.3 | Yeah I mean I think the lesson was learned much earlier than I was there, but like without fail, |
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