Zippocat
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Zippocat was a shock video published on July 22, 2005 to Ogrish.com that later became an internet meme. The video depicted a small gray kitten named Sonny being pet then held upside-down by a German/Belgian man. A few seconds after, the man would set the cat on fire with a zippo lighter and burn it alive while continuing to record. The video lasts 4 minutes and 12 seconds, and was promptly removed from Ogrish.com and gained an unknown number of views before deletion. The video was believed to have been lost until 2022, when a Screamer Wiki user found a video download on Archive.ph. However, due to the illegality of the video, the user chose to not share the video to the public.
YTMND
A YTMND page titled "Zippo cat" was created on June 8, 2007, displaying 15 still frames from the original video of a cat being lit on fire. The page's text reads "No, it's not alright ki", "No chapstick for you!", and it plays E1M1 (At Doom's Gate) in the background. It appears that the page was created by an individual with a peculiar sense of humor. Many users rated the page 5 stars, but some users found it disturbing. In the comments, a user named "Spotz" claimed to have given it a 5-star rating due to the music, to which another user named "Gecko" replied with "Nothing justifies 5'ing burning kittens. Not even Doom music." The last four words of Gecko's reply became an internet meme.
Creator's arrest
The administrators of the Ogrish.com website tracked down the video's uploader and the actual killer of the cat, which took them only two days. The uploader was a 15-year-old Belgian male and the actual killer was a 26-year-old Belgian male. Both men were eventually arrested.[1]
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