Cat Blender Video

About

Cat Blender Video refers to a viral gore video of someone killing a live cat with a blender then taking it out and microwaving it. The video started spreading online in early May 2023. The shock media inspired reactions and outrage on sites like Twitter and TikTok, with some users seeking out more information about the video in an attempt to dox and expose whoever made it. Some believe the video was taken in China due to the Chinese characters seen on the blender. On May 3rd, reports that the cat killer, a Chinese blogger who previously killed a cat in the woods and posted the content online, was arrested started to spread online.

Origin

On May 2nd, 2023, Twitter users began making posts claiming they watched a video of a cat being killed with a blender. The earliest available and known post about it was made by Twitter^[1] user @gsjshd75896805 that day, writing, "what the actual fuck is wrong with people. I just saw the video of the cat in the blender. are you seriously messed up. do they think this is funny why would someone do that to a poor innocent cat. if u don’t want it anymore give it away wtf????"

One of the first and most notable posts sharing the video was by Twitter^[2] user @scarycontent18, posted on May 2nd, but it has since been removed from Twitter for violating the platform's rules (screenshot shown below). It is unclear where the video was first shared online.

Spread

The video and content referring to the video went viral over the following days on sites including Twitter and TikTok. On May 2nd, 2023, TikToker^[3] @avenueharli posted a video sharing the censored screenshot of @scarycontent18's post, garnering over 308,000 views in a day (shown below, left). TikToker^[4] @mxtrix0_0 also posted a TikTok referencing the video that day, garnering over 663,000 views in a similar timeframe (shown below, right).

The video continued to spread, eventually inspiring memes and posts from users expressing anger and sadness over the clip, some using memes to imply what they might do to the person responsible for the shock media if they encountered them IRL.

Some users also began searching for more information on the video in an attempt to expose and dox the person who blended the cat. For example, on May 3rd, 2023, Twitter^[5] user @scarycontent18 posted a screenshot of the blender showing the Chinese writing on it, writing, "Can anyone translate it pls we need to know what language it is and what we already know is that it is somewhere in Asia," garnering over 75 likes in under a day (shown below). The characters allegedly translate to, "Health Sensitive Extraction Machine."

Some TikTokers^[6] and Twitter^[7][8] users also shared purported addresses where the video was potentially taken, although these are unconfirmed to be the actual address of the cat killer.

Alleged Arrest

On the night of May 3rd, 2023, it was purported by several people, including TikTokers @baldnewsnetwork and @noahglenncarter, that the man responsible for killing the cat was arrested (shown below, left and right). According to Carter, the killer was a food blogger in China. Bald News Network showed a tweet purportedly from the official Fu Nan Police Department that shares a statement, allegedly about the arrest of the killer. However, these claims are unconfirmed and while it may be the same man who killed the cat with the blender, the arrest may be related to a separate incident.

Bald News Network also shared a post made to the Fu Nan Police Department Weibo^[9] account on April 27th, 2023, prior to the blender video's virality on Twitter (shown below, left, translated). The statement regards the arrest of Xu Mouhui. Mouhui was arrested after police discovered he'd recorded and uploaded a video online torturing a cat in a forest in Lucheng Town, Funan County.^[11] It is unclear and unconfirmed that the statement is about the same cat killer, as the blender video is not filmed in a forest.

Another report on the arrest by Weibo^[10] account Star Video shows blurred screenshots of the alleged cat-killing video made by Xu Mouhui, which do not appear to resemble the blender video (shown below, right).

At 23:53 on April 26, 2023, the Chengbei Police Station of our bureau received a call from a group of people saying that the cat had been stolen, and the cat thief Xu Mouhui had been found, and they asked the police for help. After receiving the police, the Chengbei Police Station dispatched the police in time and launched an investigation.

It is now found that: On March 15, Xu Mouhui (male, 29 years old) abused cats in a small forest in Lucheng Town, our county, and made a short video to share in the QQ group. After spreading through the Internet, it was condemned by netizens and animal protection activists, causing bad social impact. According to the relevant provisions of the "Public Security Management Punishment Law", the public security organs detained Xu Mouhui in accordance with the law.

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