People are starting to understand that Hello Kitty isn’t a cat, and it’s freaking them out.
Kitty White, often known as Hello Kitty, is a famous character who has been around since the 1970s.
Yuko Shimizu made her, and Yuko Yamaguchi made her current look.
The Japanese business Sanrio owns Hello Kitty, and over the years, they have made a lot of things with her on them.
The fictitious character became quite popular in the 1990s, when kawaii culture was very prevalent.
According to CNN, Dave Marchi, Sanrio’s senior director, estimated that the character made more than $8 billion in retail sales in 2013.
Over the years, the figure has been the basis for animated TV shows and movies, video games, comics, books, and even theme parks.
You may believe that everyone who loves Hello Kitty knows everything there is to know about her, but you’d be wrong.
A new sketch says that Hello Kitty isn’t a cat or even an animal.
People are shocked by what they learned about the character during an episode of Saturday Night Live.
The sketch is about a manager at a Hello Kitty store who is teaching new workers.
The manager advises that if you turn to page five of your employee handbooks, you’ll find a list of information about Hello Kitty.
She loves to bake cookies, goes to school, and isn’t a cat; she’s a small girl.
One employee responds in answer, “No, why did you say Hello Kitty was a human little girl?”
A lot of people thought the assertion was just a joke when the comedy came out, but it’s true.
Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist at the University of Hawaii, has cleared things up.
She talked about the rumor that Hello Kitty isn’t a cat while she was at the Japanese American National Museum.
Yano told the Los Angeles Times, “That’s one change Sanrio made to my script for the show.”
Hello Kitty is not a real cat. She’s a character from a cartoon. She is a small child. She is a friend. But she isn’t a cat. She has never been shown on all fours.
She sits and walks like a creature with two legs. She does have a cat of her own, though. Its name is Charmmy Kitty.
Yano says that Hello Kitty “lives in London” instead of Japan, which is what everyone else thinks.
People are already posting about the discovery that the famous cartoon isn’t a cat after all on social media.
“Ruined my whole childhood,” someone writes.
Someone another says, “I don’t see it, and I don’t believe it.”
Someone else comments, “I just found out that Hello Kitty isn’t a cat.” So, life is simply one huge joke now?