In a story that has “2021” written all over it, the crypto art platform Foundation has just facilitated the sale of the legendary Nyan Cat GIF for approximately $587,000. Or, what amounts to $ ...

He first posted the GIF on Twitter and Tumbler in April 2011. A few days later, someone made a YouTube video of Nyan Cat with music in the background. Torres told Insider he didn't know who had ...

The OG Nyan Cat meme uploaded to YouTube in 2011. Gif: Chris Torres Nyan Cat is turning 10 years old in April (feel old yet?), and to celebrate the anniversary of one of the internet’s most ...

Despite the sale, the existing Nyan Cat GIF and video will still be available for distribution online. The crypto art sale simply allows the buyer to operate as a collector of sorts — as the ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Nyan Cat turns 10 this year, and to mark the occasion, a one-of-a-kind ...

The creator of the wildly popular Nyan Cat GIF decided to celebrate its 10-year anniversary by selling a digital asset known as an NFT—a non-fungible token—at auction. The sale, hosted by ...

Chris Torres created the quirky flying space cat with a Pop-Tart for a body, released on YouTube in 2011 To celebrate the viral GIF’s 10th anniversary, Torres did a one-of-a-kind remastered ...

If you have a cat gif addiction that you were hoping to slowly rid yourself of, bad news: We've discovered the Riffsy GIF Keyboard app, free via the iTunes App Store, which allows you to save any ...

More than 150 years before Buzzfeed uploaded its first cat GIF, people were already captivated by looping animations. In those days, of course, there was no photoshop or screen grabbing ...