Remember that bizarre viral trend where creepy versions of the Cat in the Hat started appearing online, announcing that “the Cat” was coming to different towns and communities?
Well… now kids are getting ARRESTED over it.
What started as a strange piece of internet horror has escalated as some people have begun connecting the trend to real schools, real students, and messages that authorities say crossed the line into actual threats. Police departments have investigated posts, schools have increased security, parents have been alerted, and teenagers in multiple states have faced arrests or charges.
And there’s an important distinction here: making a creepy Cat in the Hat meme isn’t the problem. Making people reasonably believe that their school or children are being threatened is something VERY different.
In this follow-up to my original video, we look at how the Cat in the Hat trend escalated, why schools and police can’t simply dismiss these posts as jokes, and how AI has made it ridiculously easy for someone with a phone and terrible judgment to create convincing nightmare fuel involving real people and places.
AI didn’t invent teenage stupidity.
It just gave teenage stupidity a graphics department.
And apparently the Cat in the Hat now has a criminal-justice subplot.
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