The latest in weird crazes sweeping the internet sees pet owners around the world lifting their animals above their head.
Copying a famous scene from the film The Lion King, the internet phenomenon, follows other such memes as planking, owling and Tebowing. The videos take their inspiration from the famous scene in the beginning of The Lion King where the wise mandrill Rafiki presents the young Simba to the herd.
The latest strange internet phenomenon of Lion King-ing sees pet owners raising a cat or dog into the sky like Simba in the film of the same name. In the movie the Elton John ‘Circle of Life’ song is heard, and many of the online videos have the same music.
‘I think that everyone with a cat or a small dog has done it before,’ said Jeff Wysaski, a blogger on Pleated-jeans.com who made a viral video of the phenomenon from clips other pet owners had posted on YouTube. ’I checked on YouTube, and, lo and behold, there were a ton of videos of people doing it. I thought it would be funny to put them together.
‘I think most people don’t talk about it, but when you bring it up other cat owners, they’re like, ‘I do that,’ ‘I have done that.’ Wysaski admitted he ‘Lion Kings’ his own tabby cat.
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‘She’s not too happy about it,’ he said. ‘A lot of the animals are just putting up with us and our ridiculousness.’
