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Christopher Torres spent about four hours one evening in early April creating Nyan Cat -- an animated feline with a Pop-Tart for a body that flies through space leaving a rainbow trail. Five months ...

The original Nyan Cat video/GIF turned 10 this year. Christopher Torres, Nyan Cat's creator, explains what he's been up to since uploading one of the internet's most memorable memes. Flashback to 2011 ...

Love it or hate it, the trippy internet sensation Nyan Cat is slowly starting to take over the computing world. If you still haven’t seen the hundreds of variations of the YouTube cat meme (my ...

In a story that has “2021” written all over it, the crypto art platform Foundation has just facilitated the sale of the legendary Nyan Cat GIF for approximately $587,000. Or, what amounts to $587,000 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of 4chan, Reddit, and the real world. The creator of the Nyan Cat is Chris Torres who learned about ...

Nyan Heroes, the hero shooter where cute cats pilot giant mechs, released its launch window and teaser story trailer, revealing the game will debut in the winter of 2025. The first story trailer from ...

After selling Nyan Cat as an NFT, its creator, Chris Torres, has found himself working on an even bigger event: a week-long series of auctions where classic memes are being sold on the blockchain by ...

The creator of the wildly popular Nyan Cat GIF decided to celebrate its 10-year anniversary by selling a digital asset known as an NFT—a non-fungible token—at auction. The sale, hosted by the new NFT ...

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