Everything About the Popcat Game & How The Trend Started

For the last few months or so, the best athletes from all over the world have been battling it out for supremacy and the chance to make their nation proud.

Reader: Wait, didn’t the Olympics start a month ago? And hasn’t it already ended?

What the heck is an “Olympics”? I’m talking about the Popcat Game.

Reader: Oh…

You don’t have any idea what the Popcat Game is, do you?

Reader: Nope

Surprsingly, this is not uncommon. As prestigious as it is, not many people know about this game, even though it’s widely regarded as the most important international competition of all time.

Popcat: It’s a Clicking Game

Contrary to what some believe, the Popcat Game does not involve going up to stray cats on the street and poking them, so uh, please don’t do that.

It’s a clicker game where players click on an image of a cat with their mouse or finger to accumulate points.

Every time you click on the feline, it opens and closes its mouth (no one knows why).

One click gets you one point.

The image of the cat first made its way to the internet back in October last year, when Twitter user @XavierBFB shared an image of his cat, Oatmeal, on the platform.

Oatmeal soon became the subject of many memes, and was used as the main image when the Popcat page was reportedly set up two months later in December by three computer scientists from the University of Sheffield – Joshua Rainbow, Edward Halls, and Freddy Heppell.

It went viral this year in April, and after losing steam, it has undergone something of a resurgence in the last few weeks, as more and more people around the globe are choosing to spend their days repeatedly clicking an image of a cat.

Thailand Claims Gold Medal for Popcat

Over the weekend, Thailand and Malaysia went head to head in what can only be described as a deranged clicking rampage, with Malaysia recording 87,000 clicks per second and the latter logging 500,000 per second.

In the end, Thailand came out on top to claim first place, with Malaysia in second. Taiwan recently overtook Malaysia, however, knocking it down to third place.

Coming in fourth is Finland, followed by Sweden, Poland, and Denmark.

Singapore is in 26th Place

Singaporeans have better things to do than click on a cat, it seems, as we’re 26th in the rankings.

We’ve logged over 266 million clicks so far, with yours truly contributing over 200 clicks.

Boss: 200 clicks?! Is this why you’ve been taking weeks to write a single article lately?

My country needs me, boss.

North Korea Has Entered the Popcat Race

The competition has become so popular that even North Korea has entered the competition.

And as you can see, it’s not too far from first place.

Okay, so it only has one click and is last on the list of 218 countries.

But some have speculated that this was because the Supreme Leader was the only one in the country who was allowed to pop the cat, and that his one click was equivalent to one trillion clicks from other countries, placing his country firmly in first place.

As for the rest of us, we should all pop that famous cat to help our country climb the table, and then take a few moments to question what we’re doing with our lives.

Those interested to join the fight should head here.

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Image: Popcat