In it for the Squee

What was that? Oh, just a silly scroll of cat memes to lock you out of work for the next hour.

Many people struggle with work not because they are lazy, but because modern work often feels disconnected from meaning, autonomy, and visible results. Humans evolved engaging in tasks that had clear purpose—gathering food, building shelter, caring for community. The effort was directly tied to survival and shared life. These days, that's not always the case. Work nowadays can feel pointless, repetitive, or detached from tangible outcomes. When you can't see how your labor connects to something real, motivation becomes harder to sustain. But when you have a cat, everything suddenly makes sense.

There is also the issue of autonomy. Psychologically, people thrive when they have some control over their time and decisions. Strict schedules, surveillance, productivity metrics, and hierarchical management structures can make workers feel replaceable or constrained. Even in well-paid jobs, a lack of agency can produce resentment or burnout. The discomfort isn't always about effort; it's about feeling controlled rather than self-directed. Ever go to work feeling like you're a bird in a cage? Imagine how your cat feels sitting at home all day! Just kidding, they probably love that they can chill all day while you go off and pay their rent for them. 

"Adopt me, adopt me!"

It's obvious when a cat wants to be adopted. They run up to you, they meow, bite, lick, and purr. And just like the kitty in this story, they get adopted from all their hard work! This cat runs up to a guy, screaming his little head off. He tried to run up his leg, and was an absolute goober. When the guy's wife comes home he tells her everything. It's a bit cold outside, and they decide to see how the little guy does inside their home office to create a barrier between him and the other cats. He seems to be doing well and they've already scheduled a vet appointment. 

In this world of HD, AI and 24/7 sensory overload, one thing that we constantly long for is familiarity and comfort. 

Oftentimes, we find ourselves stopping mid-endless doomscrolling and daydreaming. We find ourselves thinking about the past, about how this sensory overload wasn't something that we were born into, that we grew up doing. We had the internet. We are of that generation. The internet came early enough into our lives that we can't quite imagine them without it. But it was different back then. Back then, they internet was slower. Simpler. Back then, all we had were simple and funny Lolcat memes and low-quality cat videos that made us smile like nothing else. 

We thought that this was something that was mostly lost nowadays. We, here at ICHC, try to keep some of that pure feeling alive by continuing to make these silly and nostalgic Lolcat memes on a weekly basis. Because it matters to us. But that's just one piece of it. The magic wasn't only in the memes. It was in the bright and highly saturated videos, in the simple 60-second clips of cats doing simple things that we could relate to. No overlaying music to keep our ears engaged. No sharp cuts and effects. Just cats. 

We would look those videos up sometimes - those iconic videos of cats that AI or nothing else could ever recreate. And we would think about how sad it is that we never see things like that anymore. Even the simplest home videos can't quite capture the feeling of those old homemade tapes that we had. But apparently, it actually is possible. Apparently, it wasn't the times that were responsible for these videos. It was just the video camera. 

This week, we came across a viral tweet, talking about a person on YouTube who films their cats using an old 1999 Sony camcorder, about how those videos gave off that exact feeling of contentment and nostalgia that we are looking for. And we went searching. And we found it. 

Simple videos. Calming, wholesome, full of just cats, saturated colors, and nostalgia. They are everything that we need in this world right now, and we hope these videos will continue gaining even more attention than they already have.

A grey tabby cat snuck into a bank, likely sniffing out some well-hidden treats, but instead of finding a treasure of tuna, he triggered the bank robbery alarms and spooked the humans!

Little did they know, this tabby cat had no malicious intent, only a meow that would melt the hearts of every first responder who arrived at the scene. Purrhaps this is one cat burglary that'll go down in feline heist-ory. 

Every cat lover knows that cats can be mischievous, it accounts for about 90% of their natural kitty charm. Although they're born with a curiosity that could pawtentially become their demise, cats are confident and remain rambunctious even in their old age. Kitten curiosities don't expire with age, in fact, cats tends to become more tenacious as they get older, knowing that the humans will bow down to their every feline whim and woe. It's for this reason that many cats never know woes, only the unending love of a human caregiver who opens the tin can of wet food when they mew and pulls the laser pointer out at midnight when they cry for playtime. 

Cats are capable of just about anything, and if you asked a cat lover how a kitty could break into a bank without as much as a single opposable thumb or higher cognitive thinking, they would offer a laundry list of kitty mischiefs that could lead to this outcome. While many humans would struggle to stealthily break into a bank, and while many of us daydream of the winnings from the comfort of our cubicles, this feisty feline accidentally burgled his way into the viral cat video hall of fame. Triggering the bank alarms of a small town bank, everyone rushed to the scene to help solve the crime. But the criminal? He was just a grey tabby cat who was following his curiosity instinct, wondering why all the humans had so much hype around this useless green paper. 

Maybe this cat was onto something the day he became a bona fide cat burglar, or purrhaps he was just looking for the well-deserved attention that every cat needs.

Here comes another healthy dose of cat memes purrfection! 

In a world as chaotic as ours, where every day, something new and exciting and mildly terrifying happens, there are things that we need to keep ourselves sane. We have a list of things like that. We need our hot coffee in the morning, made exactly how we like it. We need our warm blankets with the exact level of fluff that we require. We need the people that we love around us - in measured but highly treasured doses. And more than anything, we need one thing. We need funny cat memes. 

Coffee is just in the morning, blankets are mostly at night, the people we love can be too much sometimes, but funny cat memes - that is simple purrfection. Any time of the day, no matter what is happening or what we are going through, we know that we can always take a quick break, scroll through some silly cat memes, and things will start looking up and feeling a bit better. It's the power of cats and the great power of the internet combined into one hissterically purrfect thing, and it is the one thing that we truly need to keep the chaos at bay.