The Origin Story Of Keyboard Cat

Vice magazine traces the roots of one of the most successful memes ever. posted on February 22, 2013 at 1:00pm EST

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So Charlie Schmidt creates Keyboard Cat and some other guy gets 99% of the credit?
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