Greetings, Fabulous Felines and Hoomans of Hivelandia and surrounding communities!

I hope this Monday is treating you well, notwithstanding that unfortunate sound of our Hive token circling the drain to nowhere.

Hopefully, that's just a temporary thing... this whole crypto experience is a very up-and-down gig.

Internet Cat Day!

Anyway, the main thing to share today is that tomorrow — June 18th — is officially "Internet Cat Day!

You might wonder why cats would need a special day, and the answer is that we Felines have pretty much become the unofficial mascots of the web.

Shadow and Smudge!

It's hard to say when this started, although we know that the "Caturday on Saturday" movement has its roots on the enormous 4chan image boards some 20 years ago.

We also know that the most famous original "I can has cheezburger?" cat meme was created by Eric Nakagawa in 2007.

Internet Cats have become quiet the phenomenon since then.

By many estimates, 100,000 new cat and kitten videos are being uploaded to the web every single day!

And already by 2015, there were more cat photos on the Internet than there are Hoomans on planet Earth! Just imagine how much that number has grown since then!

These days, Internet counts move so fast it's hard to get accurate up-to-the-moment counts on anything, but there's little doubt that cats online are as popular as ever!

Internet Cat Day is the brainchild of LBK Wink founder Kelly Wofford as a way to memorialize President Bill Clinton the Cat, an orange tabby cat who was the company's original "Internet Cat," who died much too young on June 18th.

Of course, we don't need a lot of reasons to celebrate cats around here... but if you're one of the one who do need a reason... why not share some cat content on June 18th?

Thanks for visiting our blog! We hope to see you again soon... and hopefully for next Caturday!

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Love Cats? Get Involved in Hive's Cat Communities!

If you're a cat lover and often/sometimes post pictures or other content that includes your feline friends, why not become an active part of Hive's growing Cat Communities?

These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Many of the allow you to share your cat posts, even if you started at a different community!

HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!

Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!

Caturday by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!

Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS!

Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community.

There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!

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