Monday, November 9, 2009

What Kitteh People and Bacon People have in common

Both fans are extremists, to say the least. They want take their love to the next level, to the point of using them in their proposal or getting bacon tattooed on their forearm. The crazier the more alluring it is for them. Think about the actual subjects they feign for: no matter what cats do, its almost always guaranteed to be found interesting (then of course, viral) and the flavorful-and-fatty-to-the-umpteenth-degree bacon is so bad, its gooooood.


Each are absolutely ridiculous (in the best way possible). At this point, bacon has become a parody of itself. By just including it in something, whether it is a martini or the flavor of your floss, it makes it funnier and makes it a sure fire novelty.


Similarly, cats are ridiculous because they do the weirdest things, and by weird, I mean similar to human things. In this way they have also become a parody of themselves. Funny (or very angry) expressions and acting like us, has made them more hilarious and unbelievable than ever.



Simple is better. Well maybe ‘simple’ is giving it too much credit, its more like uber low-tech. And low-tech is almost harder to replicate authentically but does dole out the street cred. The more DIY the better, the more it showcases its perfect raw state, the more quality it is. The thing that makes bacon and cat obsessees begin to salivate is to know that what they are seeing is real, to know it actually happens and it actually exists. Undoctured videos and pictures, virgin and untouched by Photoshop- make it real for them and even makes you believe its possible for your cat to eat with chopsticks or for your friends to whip up the Bacon Explosion on Sunday. These people love nothing more than to think that cats mutter to themselves about eating pizza and that they'll one day meet a girl who wears the bacon bra under clothes.


It’s a guilty pleasure. Those things that make our lives a little better, something to look forward to, as well as the things that you aren’t supposed to like, and you're especially not supposed talk about openly. Yes, it’s a little embarrassing, but that’s the things with these two Internet favorites, is that we are celebrating our obsessions of these two everyday, common things you'd find in my house or your house, in the very most open way possible!

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