Newsflash: Hello Kitty has never been a cat

[steve2470]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/08/28/newsflash-hello-kitty-has-never-been-a-cat/

Well, I'll BE.... I always thought she was a cat !

[trof]

1. Well, fuck. Another icon destroyed.

[steve2470]

2. I know, I'm just shattered

[RiffRandell]

3. Is Snoopy still a dog?

I'll admit I got that off Twitter.

[trof]

4. Well, now you have to wonder.

jeez

[steve2470]

7. reasonable facsimile ?

Is nothing sacred any more ?

[LiberalElite]

5. Another bubble burst -

[shenmue]

6. Nooooooooooooooooooo

She has a cat's head, for pity's sake. Does that make her a mutant?!

[femmocrat]

8. She has ears and whiskers!

Fur crying out loud.

[steve2470]

9. Update: Sanrio...has already begun backtracking on the non-kitty Kitty story

Last edited Sat Aug 30, 2014, 08:51 PM - Edit history (1)

Update: Sanrio, perhaps following that same line of logic, has already begun backtracking on the non-kitty Kitty story. A spokeswoman told Kotaku Hello Kitty is “not a cat,” but a “personification of a cat.” (Riiiight.) The baffling back-peddling is worth reading in full.

HELLO KITTY IS A CAT

[Yavin4]

10. I don't know what's real any more.

My innocence is lost.

[shenmue]

12. I want her to be a cat

I want that so bad!

[raven mad]

11. OMG.........

[Blue_Tires]

14. It's not even the revelation that Hello Kitty isn't a cat;

It's just that the "explanation" was creepy beyond belief...