Filmed in 1984 on videotape and posted to YouTube in 2007, Charlie Schmidt’s clip of his cat Fatso playing keyboard became the classic punchline attached to the end of online blooper and fail clips.
Filmed by Charlie Schmidt in 1984 on Betamax tape, the clip of Fatso the cat was uploaded in 2007 and became the internet’s universal cue to play off an embarrassing failure. It gave a second life to an analog recording decades later.