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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsNewsflash: Hello Kitty has never been a cat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/28/newsflash-hello-kitty-has-never-been-a-cat/Well, I'll BE.... I always thought she was a cat !
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Newsflash: Hello Kitty has never been a cat (Original Post)
steve2470
Aug 2014
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trof
(54,256 posts)1. Well, fuck. Another icon destroyed.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)2. I know, I'm just shattered
RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)3. Is Snoopy still a dog?
I'll admit I got that off Twitter.
trof
(54,256 posts)4. Well, now you have to wonder.
jeez
steve2470
(37,457 posts)7. reasonable facsimile ?
Is nothing sacred any more ?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)5. Another bubble burst -
shenmue
(38,506 posts)6. Nooooooooooooooooooo
She has a cat's head, for pity's sake. Does that make her a mutant?!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)8. She has ears and whiskers!
Fur crying out loud.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)9. Update: Sanrio...has already begun backtracking on the non-kitty Kitty story
Last edited Sat Aug 30, 2014, 09:51 PM - Edit history (1)
Update: Sanrio, perhaps following that same line of logic, has already begun backtracking on the non-kitty Kitty story. A spokeswoman told Kotaku Hello Kitty is not a cat, but a personification of a cat. (Riiiight.) The baffling back-peddling is worth reading in full.
HELLO KITTY IS A CAT
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)10. I don't know what's real any more.
My innocence is lost.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)12. I want her to be a cat
I want that so bad!
raven mad
(4,940 posts)11. OMG.........
Response to steve2470 (Original post)
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Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)14. It's not even the revelation that Hello Kitty isn't a cat;
It's just that the "explanation" was creepy beyond belief...