To much of the world, Hello Kitty is a charming cartoon icon—a blank-faced cat with a red bow and an empire of lunch boxes, backpacks, and billion-dollar branding. But her global rise tells a ...

A stock image shows a black cat lounging on a bed, watching the TV. getty images The video quickly went viral on TikTok and it has so far received over 552,900 views and 96,200 likes on the platform.

Its hero, a plucky black cat with round, expressive eyes, doesn’t speak a word of dialogue, and acts more or less like a domestic house cat, but under the Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’s ...