Talk:Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten

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Contents 1 I reckon i've killed 5, 840 cats 2 Downloading musis 3 Unofficial Explanation 4 Requests 5 Font 6 Meaning 7 Is this page really appropriate? 8 Most internet users? 9 Image date 10 Kitten huffing 11 AfD#2 12 XXXchurch 13 Removed "References in popular culture" 14 Space after three periods 15 Ceiling cat 16 Removed unsourced info 17 caption should be incorporated into the story 18 Time's person of the year?

[edit] I reckon i've killed 5, 840 cats

Two times per day for eight years.

-G

[edit] Downloading musis

Suggestion:

Nowadays the phrase "Every time you downloa music from internet god kills a kiten." This should be mentioned as the usage of internet has widen from watching porn to downloading music, videos etc. On Jinx.com they've got stickers and T-shirts with that music thing. --Hurda 10:23, 11 December 2006 (CET)

[edit] Unofficial Explanation

The article is correct in that it did not originate on Something Awful. The original site for the distribution of this image, regretably, does not wish publicity or for its name to be linked to this image. The user who put together this image is still more than welcome to claim ownership. Unfortunately, while true, nothing in this paragraph is particularly verifyable, so it is not appropriate to place inside of the article itself. --68.229.247.45 04:55, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I know exactly where the original image (without any photoshopping) came from. There used to be a large list of kitten pictures on a website, which included this one. Unfortunately, the page was removed within the last two years, so I can't cite it (it was very cute).

Did you mean kittens.sytes.org ? Or The picture --71.252.235.112 01:13, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

This wasn't the same site, but it has a lot of the same pictures, including the one with "cliche kitty" without the domo-kuns or banner. Tzepish 18:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requests

Unfortunately, this entry is a complete travesty. Regardless of the nay-sayers objections, this image and its history deserve much more than what has been given here; it is a remarkable piece of internet history that should not be forgotten.

That said, I'd like to request that someone knowledgeable in the etymology of the image review and clean up this article. As it is today, there are 3 different time periods listed for when the image was created and just as many named creators. If the true origination of the image cannot be determined precisely, it would be best to simply say so, rather than sporadically naming all the possibilities.

Also, this Talk page needs to be cleaned up as well; half of it is completely irrelevant. BurntSky 08:24, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Cleaned up much of the article with regard to etymology.

--Tzepish 12:35, 09 November 2005 (UTC)

Cleaned up the talk page for you.

--Tzepish 12:42, 09 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Font

Does anybody know what font it uses?

I remember having the URL to the full series of cliche kitty photos, but I have since lost it. Does anyone know where this is?

Here.

This article should also mention the many parodies of the ETYMGKAK image (including "Every time you forward that bloody picture, God kills a Domo-kun") and explain the new coinage of "killing a kitten" meaning to masturbate. --Anonymous

[edit] Meaning

Well, what did they want to say? Was it religious like don't masturbate, protect the cats or something like that? Why was it sent? Who sent it ? (a religous group or animal protection group?) --Jondel 00:14, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Judging solely from the source pictures (cliche kitty and domokuns), it seems likely a Fark member created the picture. As Fark often shows "boobies" and other delightful titilations, I don't believe the creator would be against masturbation. More likely it's an ironic take on religious anti-masturbation literature, along the lines of [1] or [2]. --Kyz 20:49, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

AS a long-time Farker, I can indeed back up the Fark origins. Lots o' Farkers think about Farking, so it makes sense really; as far as the humor goes, it's more of a take off of the standard right-wing religious defense "Won't anyone think of the children?" --maru 17:08, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

The slogan was created to parody the idea that masturbation causes blindness. The domo-kun image was chosen to slap the banner on simply because it ends up implying that God's method of choice (when it comes to killing kittens) is sending domo-kuns after them.

--Tzepish 12:41, 09 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Is this page really appropriate?

I find it hard to believe that this is appropriate for an encylopedia. Can anyone show me why it should be here? --Josiah 03:57, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

It's a part of internet culture? --BrandonR 04:41, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

Granted, I'm sure it's one of the pages Wikipedia's detractors point to when criticizing the project, but Wikipedia isn't made to just be an online Britannica. And yes, it is a rather existent, if irrelevant and irreverent, part of Internet culture. So long as Goatse has an article (a necessary evil which I would not like to see removed), so will this. --BDD 16:53, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

It features interesting encyclopedic content that most people are not readily familiar with (i.e. the picture's history, authors, origins). This is quite an achievement, considering the nature of the topic. Kudos to everyone involved. --Tronno 23:34, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Most internet users?

Is the assertion that the phrase was "familiar to most internet users" at all accurate and verifiable? Unless the definition of "internet user" somehow goes beyond someone who at some point casually uses the internet, I think this statement is quite an overstatement. Can someone rephrase it? There are more "internet users" than teenagers who haunt slashdot and similar sites. --R. fiend 06:57, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

How about most geeks? It has certainly been accurate enough a generalization in my experience. --maru 17:08, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

It has been clarified.

--Tzepish 12:43, 09 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image date

I have a strong suspicion I saw it before March 2002, the time of origin currently quoted in the article. I think that I first saw it in 2001, or perhaps even 2000. --jamesgibbon 29 June 2005 13:04 (UTC)

I agree. I used to have it on my wall in an office I didn't have after January 2002. I think I originally put it up around August 2001, and by then it was getting stale. --Howardjp 18:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Me too. I first saw it at a job that I quit in late 2000. I just asked a former coworker who was also at that job and he confirmed seeing it in 2000 as well. Maybe the version created in 2002 was based on an earlier image? --Saucepan 20:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

The original version with the domo-kun chasing the kittens has existed since 2000. As far as I remember, the banner with the caption was added in 2002. I have clarified this in the article.

--Tzepish 12:38, 09 November 2005 (UTC)

I could've swore the base image of the domokuns chasing the cat originated on dreamless.org in the 08 - Meaningless section of the forum during a routine photoshopping contest. It wasn't until later that the second cat along with the catchphrase was layered over the top. --Sean

[edit] Kitten huffing

Does this have anything to do with Uncyclopedia's kitten huffing stunts? 204.52.215.107 05:58, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

No. --FlareNUKE 21:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that's actually one of the topic's main points. The picture wasn't created specifically for Uncyclopedia, though it was in the Kitten huffing article at one time, though i don't know if it's still there, I haven't checked it out in a while. Here it is if you need more proof. --Wikiwow 18:40, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] AfD#2

This article was nominated for deletion on Jan 9, 2006. The result of the discussion was keep. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

[edit] XXXchurch

I just deleted the link to XXXchurch, since when I clicked on it, it killed my Galeon process and thinking it was a spam link. I now see that it might be relevant. If you put it back, please add some warning. --Dylan Thurston 05:49, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed "References in popular culture"

I removed this: "In Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's manga adaptation of Neon Genesis Evangelion, the angel Kaworu Nagisa is seen strangling a stray kitten out of pity."

It seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the subject. --Tony Sidaway 01:49, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Space after three periods

Is there really a space after the three periods? --HappyCamper 23:25, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

There is always a space after three periods. SpectrumDT 18:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ceiling cat

• Theres a new one going around thats kind of like this: http://www.ceilingcat.com/, maybe add it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.86.145.181 (talk • contribs).
• Thanks, I did just that. Another editor has recommended removing it, however. Would anyone else care to comment on whether the two are sufficiently related to be in the same article?--M@rēino 22:51, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
• I think it's just one of many various image + text combos that people find funny. The fact that the cat is watching someone masturbate has nothing to do with the original Domo-kun and kitten image. If anyone would think of uploading the "Everytime you send that picture, God kills a Domo-Kun" and if it had the correct copyright information, then that would fit into this article. Just because Ceiling cat features a cat and the act of masturbation has nothing to do with this other image (that and the ceiling cat image is listed for deletion because of the recent mass of vandalism of its insertion into random pages). Ryulong 23:55, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Agree, the ceiling cat isn't dying anyway. This was just part of the push of some clueless users trying to uyse wikipedia as a webhost and couldn't understand that the consensus is for the ceiling cat image to go away. Kudos for keeping things as should be. -- Drini 02:29, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed unsourced info

I removed the following statement from the article: "...such as one that says "Every time you masturbate, Mack Brown loses another big game. Please, think of the Longhorns." The kitten being chased by the Domo-Kun is replaced by a Texas Longhorns running back, and the close-up of the kitten's face is replaced by a frustrated looking Texas coach Mack Brown. The parody referred to a long losing streak Brown had against top-10 teams prior to the 2005 Rose Bowl."
Google turns up 1 hit on "Every time you masturbate, Mack Brown loses another big game." and that hit is this article.
Even limiting the quotes to just the first phrase ("Every time you masturbate" Mack Brown loses another big game) generate no non-Wikipedia-mirror hits.
If anyone can find a citable source, then please cite it and restore the information to the article. Thanks, Johntex\^talk 22:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] caption should be incorporated into the story

The caption under the picture says "This is not the original image, as the original says 'Lie', not 'Masturbate' "

This information isn't in the article itself. Either the caption is wrong, or that additional information should be incorporated into the article itself. 69.120.160.97 15:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time's person of the year?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=time+you+wikipedia (via). -- Jeandré, 2006-12-19t19:39z