 It's probably the first video-based Internet meme. In original form, they filmed the cat in 1984. His real name was Fatso. They pretended he was playing like a keyboard. We still see it today. They threw it up on YouTube in 2007, but Fatso died way back in 1987. But like I said, one of the first viral videos. Yeah, Grumpy Cat. Grumpy Cat went viral.