🐱 Did You Know That Hello Kitty ISN'T Even A Cat?!

Hello Kitty is actually a little girl!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation some other information. I was reading
over the weekend. What do you know about Hello Kitty?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Um, the backpacks and stuff like that? Little little cat,
little Japanese inspired cat. Is that it?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well, that's what we thought. Apparently according to the makers,
Hello Kitty's not a cat. So there's a Hello Kitty
exhibit and the curator has confirmed what the makers have
always said is that Hello Kitty is actually a little girl,
not a cat. This is the quote. She's a little girl.
She's a friend, but she's not a cat. She's never

(00:36):
depicted on all fours. She walks and sits like a
two legged creature. She has a pet cat of her
own called Charmy Kitty. A lot of people have said,
give it a rest. She's got point of years like
a cat. She's got whiskers like a cat. Her name
is Kitty. She's a freakin cat. She's a cat, unless

(00:56):
a little girl identifying as a cat. I don't know,
but this is what I didn't know any of this
about her Low Kitty. I just once, like you, I
thought little Japanese. I just got the back of a backpack.
She's actually the character is British. She's a scorpio. She
has a lot in common with you. She's a perpetual
third grader.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's a glad of come in with you.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
She's got whiskys well played. So she first came about
in nineteen seventy four. She was created by a Japanese
company called Samrio, and that's because a whole lot of
Japanese people around that time were moving to Britain, and
so they made this character British. So people are a stymied.
Is that the word shocked to hear? That's apparently a

(01:40):
low kid isn't a cat. I'm going to keep believing
she's a cat because it makes no sense that she's
not a catsuit like Babar the Elephant. Babar's an elephant.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, but he's dressed up in clothes.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
He's an elephant.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, But then there's other elephants in Babar world that
are elephants.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Are there?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, It's like Goofy. Goofy's a dog and Pluto.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Is a which is the one that's got the collar,
one's got a hat.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, that's Goofy. So Pluto chooses to be a dog
on all fours and walk around naked being a dog
goofy on the other hand, drives a car and has a.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Job and wears a waistcoat.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
What's that all about, oh, Stuart, little start little.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Imagine if you were in that orphanage when people come
in they're looking to adopt a child, and you go,
this is my lucky day, and they say, not you,
We want the.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Mouse to go with the rodent.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Why would they choose a mouse?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
But I reckon it'd be good to have a mouse.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Expensive because that you can't buy clothes off the rack.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, but the kid he came along with his own
can those little shoes, vintage car and he dressed like
a middle aged man.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
No, they gave him those things and he didn't have
those in the orphanage? Was he a little rich? Punts
in the orphanage? And you can see why he's put
up for adoption because they have a lot of kids
as much they all get farmed out somewhere. It's a
lot to think about. These are the things, these are
the things we think about.