Jade Taylor-Ryan, from Ontario, is your typical 17-year-old high school student who loves soccer.
Jade also has a cat named Ed (so-named because of the cat has a similar hair color to Ed Sheeran’s) but again, that’s nothing out of the ordinary. But combine the two and TikTok and you get a viral sensation that’s just taking over the Internet.
Jade had only been using the video app for a month that time but then she shared a video featuring 4-year-old Ed “dancing” to the tune of the 1954 song “Mr. Sandman” by the Chordettes. The 12-second video turned out to be one of TikTok’s most widely-popular sensations.
Watch another version of the viral sensation below.
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It’s so insanely popular that people are still raving about the clip even now.
Not bad for an idea that Jade said just “popped into [her] head” the night before.
Before she came up with the idea for the video, she said she was actually watching another user using the same song and utilizing the app’s nine-camera split filter.
She explained in an email, “I put my phone on the floor and set a timer on it so I didn’t have to use my hands to film. I then timed when my cat would pop up in the frame based on the beat of the music.”
And Jade was quick to point out that Ed was totally fine despite the antics in the video. “Ed is very chill!” she said. “We pick him up and move him around all the time and he doesn’t really care, so I figured I would be able to do the same thing for the video. Turns out, I was right!”
Like most viral sensations, people started doing their own versions of the “Mr. Sandman” clip. Popular TikTok stars like Enoch True and Alana came up with their own versions and said the clips were their most popularly viewed with 22.5 million and 23.8 million plays, respectively.
But what’s better than one cat in the video? Two cats in the video, apparently. At least, that’s what Kelly Marks thinks.
This is why Kelly and her husband, Joe, from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, got their two cats, Ted and Rosco, to play into the routine, bewildered cat faces and all.
Kelly said: “We saw the original video with just one cat, so I decided to film it with two cats!
“A lot of people reacted great with this video.
“Everyone seemed to like how we did it with two cats instead of one.”
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