Youve likely seen the video. A cat s clapping paws enter the top left of the frame as the opening tune of The Chordettes 1958 hit Mr. Sandman starts to play.
Its pure joy, pure delight and over 10 million people have viewed it on the video-sharing platform TikTok . Its all the creation of Ottawa teenager Jade Taylor-Ryan. The 17-year-old whos set to start the 12th grade this fall posted the nine-panel video of her cat Ed to the popular social media platform last week, and since then has become an internet sensation.
Taylor-Ryan says that while shes only been on TikTok for around a month, shes gained over 50,000 followers since posting the video. She says she took inspiration from similar videos like this one from TikTok user @thunthunskittles.
I was just looking through TikTok and then I saw the nine-person filter combined with the Sandman song, and I just got the idea to use my cat, because I thought it would be different and funny at the same time, Taylor-Ryan told HuffPost Canada.
The cat in question is Ed, a four-year-old orange tabby named after the singer Ed Sheeran . And people are in love with him.
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i was feeling super sad but all i had to do to fix it was watch the mr sandman cat tik tok 8 times
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strawbaby (@lilyaolani) August 19, 2019
me explaining
to my cat how i
want to recreate
the mr sandman tiktok my cat:
with her: pic.twitter.com/0dHvmGzdS4
me explaining
chloe (@chlobrundrett17) August 18, 2019
to my cat how i
want to recreate
the mr sandman tiktok my cat:
with her: pic.twitter.com/0dHvmGzdS4
therapy: expensive
that tik tok of the cat with Mr. Sandman playing in the background: free
therapy: expensive
Ana (@ana_isab3lla) August 17, 2019
that tik tok of the cat with Mr. Sandman playing in the background: free
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Taylor-Ryan says that Ed enjoyed it as much as his fans.
He isnt really like other cats, she said. I know a bunch of my friends have cats and if you try to pet them theyll run away or, like, scratch you. But Ed just sits there.
Ed also has his own Instagram now at @thesandmancat . And with over 23,000 followers, his internet celebrity is only growing.
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