The festival “All New! All Cats! All Crazy!” in San Francisco has created an insane demand for tickets to the first internet cat video festival causing every man, woman and child to kinda maybe rethink their lives.
Joel Shepard, video curator at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, was pleasantly surprised when tickets sold out a month before the festival. And then came the emails demanding more shows.
“It’s crazy. We aren’t ready to accommodate all the need. We sold out seven screenings but could have easily sold 70,” Shepard said. “I saw people on Craigslist asking for tickets. People have been emailing me begging for tickets.”
Cat videos have sadly become an industry. Brands take over Twitter. Airbnb is populated with professional cat landlords. And viral cat videos are now made by teams of professionals.