it is suspected that shortcat is actually the alt account of a guy named Jperm who was an iconic rubiks cube channel. They sound exactly the same and they make videos in the same style edit: NO I DO NOT MEAN ANY OFFENSE TO SHORTCAT edit 2: Guys I just think it’s cool that he might be Jperm why are yall so mad at me
The third season of Shortcat's Adventures has been pretty good so far! Season 1 - *The Waiting at the Start Arc* Season 2 - *The Bagging Arc* Season 3 - *The Animals Arc*
I can't believe Shortcat got wombo-combo'd by two blue shells, a lightning bolt, and five red shells starting the frame after he ended the video, giving the first place to Longcat.
Every time Shortcat starts a race, stays in first for a while, and says he’s not bagging, I immediately expect him to get bumped once and start bagging instantly.
That waluigi trying to sabotage you was insane, the first time he appeared i thought he was hacking or something because he just came out of thin air!! 😭
16:32 . The Waluigi Wiggler, having fallen from grace, is no longer able to dominate the hunting grounds as they have done in the past. Therefore, they have taken a different approach to catching its prey. It patiently lies in wait in order to catch any unsuspecting teddy buggy victims. There are no ruled in the jungle, only survivors. So when the time is right... They strike!
I think the Waluigi was just trying to cause chaos. When he attacked Shortcat, Shortcat was in first, and on Dragon Driftway you can see him target other players who were in first at the time.
Hey Shortcat. My name is Shortfrog and I have been playing Mario kart seriously for 5 months. I am at 10,412 VR and gaining 200 to 400 VR each day. I don't play a ton of races every day because Nintendo makes me verse 20,000 to 30,000 VR players. So I gain a lot very quickly. I may not be the biggest challenge, but I think I could get 1 win unlike longcat. Also, thank you for all the tips and tricks. They have helped me a lot. Because of your shorts, I can land the gap cut about 80% of the time and I just started practicing last night. Ever since I started playing I have always wanted to at least try to beat you in one race.
Longcat was the hero we needed but didn't deserve. Somebody who would willingly put up with Shortcat's shenanigans after knowing what was coming. I don't recall any of the other animals in this arc sticking with it all the way through from start to finish.
The waluigi player being there just to ruin 1st place's day was really funny, he did it for several races lmao. Poor longcat though, he must have done some unspeakable crime to upset the Mariokart gods.
J Perm helped me learn speedcubing and I've watched a lot of Shortcat shorts, but I've never given a thought that they were the same person 😭😭😭 this is an insane discovery (i'm still in disbelief)
wait he officially said he is jperm ? i mean the evidence is there both have the same voide and they are both canadian i hope he comes back to cubiing i miss his hope u can read chinesse joke
That Waluigi player is simply an agent of chaos. They have no allegiance and no moral compass, and no desire to even go for first place. All they know is make life hell for whoever’s frontrunning
I randomly stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago (I’ve never watched Mario cart content) but I’m obsessed with your videos and have binged almost all of them. Just wanna say great videos.
0:18 shortcat is just so enthusiastic he’s by far the best Mario kart UA-camr hands down and is nearly at 500k subscribers but deserves 20 mil shortcat is just so entertaining and informative plus his videos are awesome
You could try getting all the short family in one game and see who is the real shortking... Feels like you can make a playlist of all of them at the end too.
As a relatively new MK8 online player, currently sitting comfortably in about 1/10th VR compared to Shortcat, my new year's resolution is to quadruple my VR to 10000. Keep creating quality contents so that I can use all your knowledge to my advantage!
I remember looking up, "Tips and tricks for Mario Kart 8" and I watched you video and ever since, UA-cam was like "Here, have some more ShortCat" and now ive been watching you more Great videos, you inspire me to play Mario Kart online after like a year or so 👍
What happened was short cat stopped at the finish line and waited for long-cat to pass him to let him in on the true short cat sportsmanship as a final message
The waluigi not being a fluke and outright targeting you again had me CRYING sklghsgkljhs Watching him come back to haunt and give you paranoia you was too funny
I dont even own Mario Kart, let alone a Switch, but god your videos are top tier I've watched them all this past week 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the entertaining content, keep it up!
Looking at the minimap on Ribbon Road, looks like that Waluigi wasn't targeting you specifically, but was just there to troll whoever was in first place, and that just happened to be you two races in a row
love the menagerie of rivalries as always, Shortcat! looking forward to seeing you collaborate in the future with your long-lost friend, Smallfeline :p
If you look carefully at the minimap you can see how the walluigi player tries to screw up the first player all the time stopping at item boxes and getting stars haha
I can't wait for that one video to come out the mario kart bankruptcy video idea I came up with a while ago 😂 but besides that can't wait to watch this one
I feel like the Waluigi just waited for whoever happened to be in first place, rather than you specifically. They went after Longcat on the subway map, for example.
Seriously, watching your videos has inspired me to start playing Mario Kart online and now I'm working towards 20 000 points so I can eventually meet and race with you someday, too
Did I really just get a cliffhanger on a mario kart video? As this is a first for me And I now choose to believe Shortcat disconnected last second and it caused a glitch to happen and LongCat somehow got first that is my dream!
I was playing Mario kart the other night and I saw the cute orange cat and was saying to my partner "I think we have played with short cat before, he looks soo familiar!" Only to realize today when checking out some videos on UA-cam that I had never played with you until that night and I follow you on UA-cam so it felt like we played together. Love that. Mario kart is so awesome ❤
Remember Longcat, Jane? I remember Longcat. Fuck the picture on this page, I want to talk about Longcat. Memes were simpler back then, in 2006. They stood for something. And that something was nothing. Memes just were. “Longcat is long.” An undeniably true, self-reflexive statement. Water is wet, fire is hot, Longcat is long. Memes were floating signifiers without signifieds, meaningful in their meaninglessness. Nobody made memes, they just arose through spontaneous generation; Athena being birthed, fully formed, from her own skull. You could talk about them around the proverbial water cooler, taking comfort in their absurdity. “Hey, Johnston, have you seen the picture of that cat? They call it Longcat because it’s long!” “Ha ha, sounds like good fun, Stevenson! That reminds me, I need to show you this webpage I found the other day; it contains numerous animated dancing hamsters. It’s called - you’ll never believe this - hamsterdance!” And then Johnston and Stevenson went on to have a wonderful friendship based on the comfortable banality of self-evident digitized animals. But then 2007 came, and along with it came I Can Has, and everything was forever ruined. It was hubris, Jane. We did it to ourselves. The minute we added written language beyond the reflexive, it all went to shit. Suddenly memes had an excess of information to be parsed. It wasn’t just a picture of a cat, perhaps with a simple description appended to it; now the cat spoke to us via a written caption on the picture itself. It referred to an item of food that existed in our world but not in the world of the meme, rupturing the boundary between the two. The cat wanted something. Which forced us to recognize that what it wanted was us, was our attention. WE are the cheezburger, Jane, and we always were. But by the time we realized this, it was too late. We were slaves to the very memes that we had created. We toiled to earn the privilege of being distracted by them. They fiddled while Rome burned, and we threw ourselves into the fire so that we might listen to the music. The memes had us. Or, rather, they could has us. And it just got worse from there. Soon the cats had invisible bicycles and played keyboards. They gained complex identities, and so we hollowed out our own identities to accommodate them. We prayed to return to the simple days when we would admire a cat for its exceptional length alone, the days when the cat itself was the meme and not merely a vehicle for the complex memetic text. And the fact that this text was so sparse, informal, and broken ironically made it even more demanding. The intentional grammatical and syntactical flaws drew attention to themselves, making the meme even more about the captioning words and less about the pictures. Words, words, words. Wurds werds wordz. Stumbling through a crooked, dead-end hallway of a mangled clause describing a simple feline sentiment was a torture that we inflicted on ourselves daily. Let’s not forget where the word “caption” itself comes from: capio, Latin for both “I understand” and “I capture.” We thought that by captioning the memes, we were understanding them. Instead, our captions allowed them to capture us. The memes that had once been a cure for our cultural ills were now the illness itself. It goes right back to the Phaedrus, really. Think about it. Back in the innocent days of 2006, we naïvely thought that the grapheme had subjugated the phoneme, that the belief in the primacy of the spoken word was an ancient and backwards folly on par with burning witches or practicing phrenology or thinking that Smash Mouth was good. Fucking Smash Mouth. But we were wrong. About the phoneme, I mean. Theuth came to us again, this time in the guise of a grinning grey cat. The cat hungered, and so did Theuth. He offered us an updated choice, and we greedily took it, oblivious to the consequences. To borrow the parlance of a contemporary meme, he baked us a pharmakon, and we eated it. Pharmakon, φάρμακον, the Greek word that means both “poison” and “cure,” but, because of the limitations of the English language, can only be translated one way or the other depending on the context and the translator’s whims. No possible translation can capture the full implications of a Greek text including this word. In the Phaedrus, writing is the pharmakon that the trickster god Theuth offers, the toxin and remedy in one. With writing, man will no longer forget; but he will also no longer think. A double-edged (s)word, if you will. But the new iteration of the pharmakon is the meme. Specifically, the post-I-Can-Has memescape of 2007 onward. And it was the language that did it, Jane. The addition of written language twisted the remedy into a poison, flipped the pharmakon on its invisible axis. In retrospect, it was in front of our eyes all along. Meme. The noxious word was given to us by who else but those wily ancient Greeks themselves. μίμημα, or mīmēma. Defined as an imitation, a copy. The exact thing Plato warned us against in the Republic. Remember? The simulacrum that is two steps removed from the perfection of the original by the process of - note the root of the word - mimesis. The Platonic ideal of an object is the source: the father, the sun, the ghostly whole. The corporeal manifestation of the object is one step removed from perfection. The image of the object (be it in letters or in pigments) is two steps removed. The author is inferior to the craftsman is inferior to God. Fuck, out of space. Okay, the illustration on page 46 is fucking useless; I’ll see you there.
But we’ll go farther than Plato. Longcat, a photograph, is a textbook example of a second-degree mimesis. (We might promote it to the third degree since the image on the internet is a digital copy of the original photograph of the physical cat which is itself a copy of Platonic ideal of a cat (the Godcat, if you will); but this line of thought doesn’t change anything in the argument.) The text-supplemented meme, on the other hand, the captioned cat, is at an infinite remove from the Godcat, the ultimate mimesis, copying the copy of itself eternally, the written language and the image echoing off each other, until it finally loops back around to the truth by virtue of being so far from it. It becomes its own truth, the fidelity of the eternal copy. It becomes a God. Writing itself is the archetypical pharmakon and the archetypical copy, if you’ll come back with me to the Phaedrus (if we ever really left it). Speech is the real deal, Socrates says, with a smug little wink to his (written) dialogic buddy. Speech is alive, it can defend itself, it can adapt and change. Writing is its bastard son, the mimic, the dead, rigid simulacrum. Writing is a copy, a mīmēma, of truth in speech. To return to our analogous issue: the image of the cheezburger cat, the copy of the picture-copy-copy, is so much closer to the original Platonic ideal than the written language that accompanies it. (“Pharmakon” can also mean “paint.” Think about it, Jane. Just think about it.) The image is still fake, but it’s the caption on the cat that is the downfall of the republic, the real fakeness, which is both realer and faker than whatever original it is that it represents. Men and gods abhor the lie, Plato says in sections 382 a and b of the Republic. οὐκ οἶσθα, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, ὅτι τό γε ὡς ἀληθῶς ψεῦδος, εἰ οἷόν τε τοῦτο εἰπεῖν, πάντες θεοί τε καὶ ἄνθρωποι μισοῦσιν; πῶς, ἔφη, λέγεις; οὕτως, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, ὅτι τῷ κυριωτάτῳ που ἑαυτῶν ψεύδεσθαι καὶ περὶ τὰ κυριώτατα οὐδεὶς ἑκὼν ἐθέλει, ἀλλὰ πάντων μάλιστα φοβεῖται ἐκεῖ αὐτὸ κεκτῆσθαι. “Don’t you know,” said I, “that the veritable lie, if the expression is permissible, is a thing that all gods and men abhor?” “What do you mean?” he said. “This,” said I, “that falsehood in the most vital part of themselves, and about their most vital concerns, is something that no one willingly accepts, but it is there above all that everyone fears it.” Man’s worst fear is that he will hold existential falsehood within himself. And the verbal lies that he tells are a copy of this feared dishonesty in the soul. Plato goes on to elaborate: “the falsehood in words is a copy of the affection in the soul, an after-rising image of it and not an altogether unmixed falsehood.” A copy of man’s false internal copy of truth. And what word does Plato use for “copy” in this sentence? That’s fucking right, μίμημα. Mīmēma. Mimesis. Meme. The new meme is a lie, manifested in (written) words, that reflects the lack of truth, the emptiness, within the very soul of a human. The meme is now not only an inferior copy, it is a deceptive copy. But just wait, it gets better. Plato continues in the very next section of the Republic, 382 c. Sometimes, he says, the lie, the meme, is appropriate, even moral. It is not abhorrent to lie to your enemy, or to your friend in order to keep him from harm. “Does it [the lie] not then become useful to avert the evil-as a medicine?” You get one fucking guess for what Greek word is being translated as “medicine” in this passage. Ding ding motherfucking ding, you got it, φάρμακον, pharmakon. The μίμημα is a φάρμακον, the lie is a medicine/poison, the meme is a pharmakon. But I’m sure that by now you’ve realized the (intentional) mistake in my argument that brought us to this point. I said earlier that the addition of written language to the meme flipped the pharmakon on its axis. But the pharmakon didn’t flip, it doesn’t have an axis. It was always both remedy and poison. The fact that this isn’t obvious to us from the very beginning of the discussion is the fault of, you guessed it, language. The initial lie (writing) clouds our vision and keeps us from realizing how false the second-order lie (the meme) is. The very structure of the lying meme mirrors the structure of the written word that defines and corrupts it. Once you try to identify an “outside” in order to reveal the lie, the whole framework turns itself inside-out so that you can never escape it. The cat wants the cheezburger that exists outside the meme, but only through the meme do we become aware of the presumed existence of the cheezburger - we can’t point out the absurdity of the world of the meme without also indicting our own world. We can’t talk about language without language, we can’t meme without mimesis. Memes didn’t change between ‘06 and ‘07, it was us who changed. Or rather, our understanding of what we had always been changed. The lie became truth, the remedy became the poison, the outside became the inside. Which is to say that the truth became lie, the pharmakon was always the remedy and the poison, and the inside retreated further inside. It all came full circle. Because here’s the secret, Jane. Language ruined the meme, yes. But language itself had already been ruined. By that initial poisonous, lying copy. Writing. The First Meme. Language didn’t attack the meme in 2007 out of spite. It attacked it to get revenge. Longcat is long. Language is language. Pharmakon is pharmakon. The phoneme topples the grapheme, witches ride through the night, our skulls hide secret messages on their surfaces, Smash Mouth is good after all. Hey now, you’re an all-star. Get your game on. Go play.
I was saying to myself you could just go on mario kart tv to check why longcat was doing so bad, but the fact you followed him in race and then still placed so highly, leaving him behind is more hilarious 😂
This is the fastest I’ve ever arrived to a video. also, I used the Petey, shoe monster tires and won twice in a row. From front running vs bagging video
Shortcat’s first to 10 series is quickly becoming one of my favorites
I completely agree
Same
First to 10 superior cat!
Agreed
Same, I need more of this... hahaha
Love how this dude became such a mario kart icon in such a short time
it is suspected that shortcat is actually the alt account of a guy named Jperm who was an iconic rubiks cube channel. They sound exactly the same and they make videos in the same style
edit: NO I DO NOT MEAN ANY OFFENSE TO SHORTCAT
edit 2: Guys I just think it’s cool that he might be Jperm why are yall so mad at me
cause he is SHORTcat
Short time you say
@@dallor09holy crap you’re right!! He sounds exactly like jperm!
@@dallor09 If true, it's still impressive given he didn't leverage that platform to promote this channel
Won't Longcat suffer as a rival as they, by genetic disposition, cannot take shortcuts?
Natural selection in action
@@cheeziobodinidamn that’s deep 🙏🏻 we may never see a longcat ever again then 😢
@@cheeziobodiniWell, that means Longcat doesnt need shortcuts, which is why they de-evolutioned without the short part
The third season of Shortcat's Adventures has been pretty good so far!
Season 1 - *The Waiting at the Start Arc*
Season 2 - *The Bagging Arc*
Season 3 - *The Animals Arc*
The unusually short or long animals ark
ark is a box
@@AviationNerd006 oops, I'm dumb dumb :P
I can't wait to see what he cooks up next for season 4
You forgot the max stat combo arc
I want an ultimate shortcat race, where every shortcat variation is in one room and they compete to see who the original is.
avengers assemble
yes
obviously its averagecat
man true short cat
Shortcat, Shortdog, Shortbird, Tall Shortcat, Longcat, who else?
I can't believe Shortcat got wombo-combo'd by two blue shells, a lightning bolt, and five red shells starting the frame after he ended the video, giving the first place to Longcat.
Still cant believe i choked that race smh
Right before the finish line too. Just right there you can feel the touch
@@onebear6504If only the combo had a better invincibility stat
Longcat's burner account
hate it when the blue shell doesn't show up on the map
Every time Shortcat starts a race, stays in first for a while, and says he’s not bagging, I immediately expect him to get bumped once and start bagging instantly.
Sounds like shortcat...
"Im gonna front run chee- Oh well I lost a single coin, might aswell bag!
That waluigi trying to sabotage you was insane, the first time he appeared i thought he was hacking or something because he just came out of thin air!! 😭
Still, that was the kindest and most competitively honest waluigi wiggler i've ever played against
@@Shortcat321 Truly a testament to the quality of Waluigi Wiggler players
i'm just shocked that he's even in that lobby
Literally bagging a full lap just to screw with first place. Frankly it was comedy gold.
@webbowser8834 even more comedy gold when the Waluigi player returned in the Shortcat vs ShortRat video
Shortcat with the 12-0 SWEEP. I don't wanna hear any mention of Longcat in the GOAT conversation after this...
Longcat stocks at an all-time low
Longcat is obviously not a goat but a cat. Duh
TIME TO BUY THEN@@kriichan6100
I STAN LONGCAT!
16:32 . The Waluigi Wiggler, having fallen from grace, is no longer able to dominate the hunting grounds as they have done in the past. Therefore, they have taken a different approach to catching its prey. It patiently lies in wait in order to catch any unsuspecting teddy buggy victims. There are no ruled in the jungle, only survivors. So when the time is right... They strike!
He appears again in the recently uploaded video "Shortcat vs ShortRat" to try and sabotage the races. And it's hilariously funny
@@Mr.Derogatory316 Get the camera. We're traveling to another video.
I thought that was so funny omg lol he not only did it once but twice lol
I think the Waluigi was just trying to cause chaos. When he attacked Shortcat, Shortcat was in first, and on Dragon Driftway you can see him target other players who were in first at the time.
Hey Shortcat. My name is Shortfrog and I have been playing Mario kart seriously for 5 months. I am at 10,412 VR and gaining 200 to 400 VR each day. I don't play a ton of races every day because Nintendo makes me verse 20,000 to 30,000 VR players. So I gain a lot very quickly. I may not be the biggest challenge, but I think I could get 1 win unlike longcat. Also, thank you for all the tips and tricks. They have helped me a lot. Because of your shorts, I can land the gap cut about 80% of the time and I just started practicing last night. Ever since I started playing I have always wanted to at least try to beat you in one race.
Did I see you or was it an imposter short frog? I think it was around the same vr
i will wait patiently for the legendary battle of shortfrog and shortcat
Bro ima sub to you just cuz
Im your first sub bro
Longcat and the Waluigi player colluding against Shortcat’s is crazy. That Waluigi player was definitely in cahoots with Longcat.
The shortcat cinematic universe is evolving 🤯
Wait doesn't shortcat play with the name longcat in some of his videos?
Better than mcu
Nah wait till he meets tallcat, bro gonna take shortcuts without shrooms and the worst possible routes 💀
5:32 calling the boo item "my son" is so cute
“my son :3”
**consumes**
Longcat was the hero we needed but didn't deserve. Somebody who would willingly put up with Shortcat's shenanigans after knowing what was coming. I don't recall any of the other animals in this arc sticking with it all the way through from start to finish.
The evil waluigi sabotaging you was actually the spirit of vengeance of the waluigi pinball win streak
The waluigi player being there just to ruin 1st place's day was really funny, he did it for several races lmao. Poor longcat though, he must have done some unspeakable crime to upset the Mariokart gods.
J Perm helped me learn speedcubing and I've watched a lot of Shortcat shorts, but I've never given a thought that they were the same person 😭😭😭 this is an insane discovery (i'm still in disbelief)
wait he officially said he is jperm ? i mean the evidence is there both have the same voide and they are both canadian i hope he comes back to cubiing i miss his hope u can read chinesse joke
Shortcat always finds rivalry even if they don’t know about it…
That Japanese Waluigi player is why I would love it if Mario Kart had a blocking feature in-game.
This was quite the “cat fight” and of course, our short king prevails even when a Waluigi hitman showed up and tried to sabotage his races
That Waluigi player is simply an agent of chaos. They have no allegiance and no moral compass, and no desire to even go for first place. All they know is make life hell for whoever’s frontrunning
Yippee Shortcat 🎉
Yipppeeeeeeeee. Hurrrray
😸🎉
Yippee!
I like how that Waluigi player wasn't racing, he's just here to hardcore bag so he can cause chaos with last place items.
Good to know that if you're part of the short family or cat species against shortcat, you'll automatically enter a first to 10 duel
Man you’re just hilarious 😂 came for the Mario kart tips, stayed for shortcat!!
I really love how 2 mushrooms look on the item screen in the corner. Whoever designed it, good for them!
These videos are definately the highlight of my day and am so happy every time you upload.
I randomly stumbled across your channel a few weeks ago (I’ve never watched Mario cart content) but I’m obsessed with your videos and have binged almost all of them. Just wanna say great videos.
I love how you can make competition with everybody you meet online. Personally i just rage after a couple games. Keep it up shortcat❤
0:18 shortcat is just so enthusiastic he’s by far the best Mario kart UA-camr hands down and is nearly at 500k subscribers but deserves 20 mil shortcat is just so entertaining and informative plus his videos are awesome
That Waluigi had more inpact in this video than Longcat
The best rivalry by far 😂
"This is so bad" Shortcat says as he is up 8-0
I love this guy's content can't wait for tallfish!
This is TOO AWESOME dude!!! 🤣 I love how you made your awesome videos even more fun to watch with such such a simple but genius idea!!!! ✊
Great performance today as Shortcat sweeps his opponent Longcat.
You could try getting all the short family in one game and see who is the real shortking...
Feels like you can make a playlist of all of them at the end too.
As a relatively new MK8 online player, currently sitting comfortably in about 1/10th VR compared to Shortcat, my new year's resolution is to quadruple my VR to 10000. Keep creating quality contents so that I can use all your knowledge to my advantage!
I laughed so hard at the Waluigi's devious tactics to get Shortcat... a real opp
I remember looking up, "Tips and tricks for Mario Kart 8" and I watched you video and ever since, UA-cam was like "Here, have some more ShortCat" and now ive been watching you more
Great videos, you inspire me to play Mario Kart online after like a year or so 👍
that waluigi was so fucking terrifying
What happened was short cat stopped at the finish line and waited for long-cat to pass him to let him in on the true short cat sportsmanship as a final message
The waluigi not being a fluke and outright targeting you again had me CRYING sklghsgkljhs
Watching him come back to haunt and give you paranoia you was too funny
I love how much fun you're having with these videos! It's so hecking entertaining and you're so funny
11:15:
“That’s what you get for being long”
-Shortcat 2024
That one Waluigi assassin was actually hilarious
longcat: haha let me make a funny name based on a popular mk8 youtuber
shortcat: let me torture this man for the rest of his mortal existence
I dont even own Mario Kart, let alone a Switch, but god your videos are top tier I've watched them all this past week 🤣🤣🤣 thanks for the entertaining content, keep it up!
17:52 love how that yoshi just appears
Looking at the minimap on Ribbon Road, looks like that Waluigi wasn't targeting you specifically, but was just there to troll whoever was in first place, and that just happened to be you two races in a row
That Waluigi player sniping Shortcat is insane. By sniping I mean like stream sniping but on a UA-cam vid.
love the menagerie of rivalries as always, Shortcat! looking forward to seeing you collaborate in the future with your long-lost friend, Smallfeline :p
how bout reasonably-sized cat
Favorite UA-camr rn keep up the work my friend
He found longcat that what we all been waiting for w shortcat. I love your vids to.
That Waluigi was freaking hilarious how he'd wait for you 😂 a friend totally brought him, he was just a 6,000
That Waluigi had some psychopath behaviour.
If you look carefully at the minimap you can see how the walluigi player tries to screw up the first player all the time stopping at item boxes and getting stars haha
The Waluigi player gave me a heart attack every time they appeared.
That Waluigi player wanted to see you in last
“Oh- my son” is the best reaction lol
That waluigi player was literally just bagging to ruin 1st place. Savage
that 6k VR waluigi player really woke up and chose to be a hater huh
Waluigi woke up today and chose violence...
I love your videos so much. You have such an entertaing personality and a nice voice to listen to. Keep it up dude!
The Menacing Waluigi Wiggler: Episode 1
I can't wait for that one video to come out
the mario kart bankruptcy video idea I came up with a while ago 😂
but besides that can't wait to watch this one
I feel like the Waluigi just waited for whoever happened to be in first place, rather than you specifically. They went after Longcat on the subway map, for example.
LongCat called a hitman on ShortCat, knowing he wouldn't be able to beat him normally.
The random Waluigi was hilarious
we need shortcat lore
Shortverse vs Longverse
Seriously, watching your videos has inspired me to start playing Mario Kart online and now I'm working towards 20 000 points so I can eventually meet and race with you someday, too
Did I really just get a cliffhanger on a mario kart video? As this is a first for me
And I now choose to believe Shortcat disconnected last second and it caused a glitch to happen and LongCat somehow got first that is my dream!
i can't believe shortcat played MK against the actual fucking real Waluigi.
Your videos always bring me joy and I know it is a good day when Shortcat uploads!
I really enjoy just watching shortcat’s gameplay while he speaks about some MK stuff, even if the video is half an hour its still entertaining.
That Waluigi was actually so mean, wow.
Heres the evidence ladies. Size isn't important its all about the technique!
These random rivalries against short and long animals make for peak content. I need moar.
I was playing Mario kart the other night and I saw the cute orange cat and was saying to my partner "I think we have played with short cat before, he looks soo familiar!" Only to realize today when checking out some videos on UA-cam that I had never played with you until that night and I follow you on UA-cam so it felt like we played together. Love that. Mario kart is so awesome ❤
Remember Longcat, Jane? I remember Longcat. Fuck the picture on this page, I want to talk about Longcat. Memes were simpler back then, in 2006. They stood for something. And that something was nothing. Memes just were. “Longcat is long.” An undeniably true, self-reflexive statement. Water is wet, fire is hot, Longcat is long. Memes were floating signifiers without signifieds, meaningful in their meaninglessness. Nobody made memes, they just arose through spontaneous generation; Athena being birthed, fully formed, from her own skull.
You could talk about them around the proverbial water cooler, taking comfort in their absurdity. “Hey, Johnston, have you seen the picture of that cat? They call it Longcat because it’s long!” “Ha ha, sounds like good fun, Stevenson! That reminds me, I need to show you this webpage I found the other day; it contains numerous animated dancing hamsters. It’s called - you’ll never believe this - hamsterdance!” And then Johnston and Stevenson went on to have a wonderful friendship based on the comfortable banality of self-evident digitized animals.
But then 2007 came, and along with it came I Can Has, and everything was forever ruined. It was hubris, Jane. We did it to ourselves. The minute we added written language beyond the reflexive, it all went to shit. Suddenly memes had an excess of information to be parsed. It wasn’t just a picture of a cat, perhaps with a simple description appended to it; now the cat spoke to us via a written caption on the picture itself. It referred to an item of food that existed in our world but not in the world of the meme, rupturing the boundary between the two. The cat wanted something. Which forced us to recognize that what it wanted was us, was our attention. WE are the cheezburger, Jane, and we always were. But by the time we realized this, it was too late. We were slaves to the very memes that we had created. We toiled to earn the privilege of being distracted by them. They fiddled while Rome burned, and we threw ourselves into the fire so that we might listen to the music. The memes had us. Or, rather, they could has us.
And it just got worse from there. Soon the cats had invisible bicycles and played keyboards. They gained complex identities, and so we hollowed out our own identities to accommodate them. We prayed to return to the simple days when we would admire a cat for its exceptional length alone, the days when the cat itself was the meme and not merely a vehicle for the complex memetic text. And the fact that this text was so sparse, informal, and broken ironically made it even more demanding. The intentional grammatical and syntactical flaws drew attention to themselves, making the meme even more about the captioning words and less about the pictures. Words, words, words. Wurds werds wordz. Stumbling through a crooked, dead-end hallway of a mangled clause describing a simple feline sentiment was a torture that we inflicted on ourselves daily. Let’s not forget where the word “caption” itself comes from: capio, Latin for both “I understand” and “I capture.” We thought that by captioning the memes, we were understanding them. Instead, our captions allowed them to capture us. The memes that had once been a cure for our cultural ills were now the illness itself.
It goes right back to the Phaedrus, really. Think about it. Back in the innocent days of 2006, we naïvely thought that the grapheme had subjugated the phoneme, that the belief in the primacy of the spoken word was an ancient and backwards folly on par with burning witches or practicing phrenology or thinking that Smash Mouth was good. Fucking Smash Mouth. But we were wrong. About the phoneme, I mean. Theuth came to us again, this time in the guise of a grinning grey cat. The cat hungered, and so did Theuth. He offered us an updated choice, and we greedily took it, oblivious to the consequences. To borrow the parlance of a contemporary meme, he baked us a pharmakon, and we eated it.
Pharmakon, φάρμακον, the Greek word that means both “poison” and “cure,” but, because of the limitations of the English language, can only be translated one way or the other depending on the context and the translator’s whims. No possible translation can capture the full implications of a Greek text including this word. In the Phaedrus, writing is the pharmakon that the trickster god Theuth offers, the toxin and remedy in one. With writing, man will no longer forget; but he will also no longer think. A double-edged (s)word, if you will. But the new iteration of the pharmakon is the meme. Specifically, the post-I-Can-Has memescape of 2007 onward. And it was the language that did it, Jane. The addition of written language twisted the remedy into a poison, flipped the pharmakon on its invisible axis.
In retrospect, it was in front of our eyes all along. Meme. The noxious word was given to us by who else but those wily ancient Greeks themselves. μίμημα, or mīmēma. Defined as an imitation, a copy. The exact thing Plato warned us against in the Republic. Remember? The simulacrum that is two steps removed from the perfection of the original by the process of - note the root of the word - mimesis. The Platonic ideal of an object is the source: the father, the sun, the ghostly whole. The corporeal manifestation of the object is one step removed from perfection. The image of the object (be it in letters or in pigments) is two steps removed. The author is inferior to the craftsman is inferior to God.
Fuck, out of space. Okay, the illustration on page 46 is fucking useless; I’ll see you there.
But we’ll go farther than Plato. Longcat, a photograph, is a textbook example of a second-degree mimesis. (We might promote it to the third degree since the image on the internet is a digital copy of the original photograph of the physical cat which is itself a copy of Platonic ideal of a cat (the Godcat, if you will); but this line of thought doesn’t change anything in the argument.) The text-supplemented meme, on the other hand, the captioned cat, is at an infinite remove from the Godcat, the ultimate mimesis, copying the copy of itself eternally, the written language and the image echoing off each other, until it finally loops back around to the truth by virtue of being so far from it. It becomes its own truth, the fidelity of the eternal copy. It becomes a God.
Writing itself is the archetypical pharmakon and the archetypical copy, if you’ll come back with me to the Phaedrus (if we ever really left it). Speech is the real deal, Socrates says, with a smug little wink to his (written) dialogic buddy. Speech is alive, it can defend itself, it can adapt and change. Writing is its bastard son, the mimic, the dead, rigid simulacrum. Writing is a copy, a mīmēma, of truth in speech. To return to our analogous issue: the image of the cheezburger cat, the copy of the picture-copy-copy, is so much closer to the original Platonic ideal than the written language that accompanies it. (“Pharmakon” can also mean “paint.” Think about it, Jane. Just think about it.) The image is still fake, but it’s the caption on the cat that is the downfall of the republic, the real fakeness, which is both realer and faker than whatever original it is that it represents. Men and gods abhor the lie, Plato says in sections 382 a and b of the Republic.
οὐκ οἶσθα, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, ὅτι τό γε ὡς ἀληθῶς ψεῦδος, εἰ οἷόν τε τοῦτο εἰπεῖν, πάντες θεοί τε καὶ ἄνθρωποι μισοῦσιν;
πῶς, ἔφη, λέγεις;
οὕτως, ἦν δ᾽ ἐγώ, ὅτι τῷ κυριωτάτῳ που ἑαυτῶν ψεύδεσθαι καὶ περὶ τὰ κυριώτατα οὐδεὶς ἑκὼν ἐθέλει, ἀλλὰ πάντων μάλιστα φοβεῖται ἐκεῖ αὐτὸ κεκτῆσθαι.
“Don’t you know,” said I, “that the veritable lie, if the expression is permissible, is a thing that all gods and men abhor?”
“What do you mean?” he said.
“This,” said I, “that falsehood in the most vital part of themselves, and about their most vital concerns, is something that no one willingly accepts, but it is there above all that everyone fears it.”
Man’s worst fear is that he will hold existential falsehood within himself. And the verbal lies that he tells are a copy of this feared dishonesty in the soul. Plato goes on to elaborate: “the falsehood in words is a copy of the affection in the soul, an after-rising image of it and not an altogether unmixed falsehood.” A copy of man’s false internal copy of truth. And what word does Plato use for “copy” in this sentence? That’s fucking right, μίμημα. Mīmēma. Mimesis. Meme. The new meme is a lie, manifested in (written) words, that reflects the lack of truth, the emptiness, within the very soul of a human. The meme is now not only an inferior copy, it is a deceptive copy.
But just wait, it gets better. Plato continues in the very next section of the Republic, 382 c. Sometimes, he says, the lie, the meme, is appropriate, even moral. It is not abhorrent to lie to your enemy, or to your friend in order to keep him from harm. “Does it [the lie] not then become useful to avert the evil-as a medicine?” You get one fucking guess for what Greek word is being translated as “medicine” in this passage. Ding ding motherfucking ding, you got it, φάρμακον, pharmakon. The μίμημα is a φάρμακον, the lie is a medicine/poison, the meme is a pharmakon.
But I’m sure that by now you’ve realized the (intentional) mistake in my argument that brought us to this point. I said earlier that the addition of written language to the meme flipped the pharmakon on its axis. But the pharmakon didn’t flip, it doesn’t have an axis. It was always both remedy and poison. The fact that this isn’t obvious to us from the very beginning of the discussion is the fault of, you guessed it, language. The initial lie (writing) clouds our vision and keeps us from realizing how false the second-order lie (the meme) is.
The very structure of the lying meme mirrors the structure of the written word that defines and corrupts it. Once you try to identify an “outside” in order to reveal the lie, the whole framework turns itself inside-out so that you can never escape it. The cat wants the cheezburger that exists outside the meme, but only through the meme do we become aware of the presumed existence of the cheezburger - we can’t point out the absurdity of the world of the meme without also indicting our own world. We can’t talk about language without language, we can’t meme without mimesis. Memes didn’t change between ‘06 and ‘07, it was us who changed. Or rather, our understanding of what we had always been changed. The lie became truth, the remedy became the poison, the outside became the inside. Which is to say that the truth became lie, the pharmakon was always the remedy and the poison, and the inside retreated further inside. It all came full circle. Because here’s the secret, Jane. Language ruined the meme, yes. But language itself had already been ruined. By that initial poisonous, lying copy. Writing.
The First Meme.
Language didn’t attack the meme in 2007 out of spite. It attacked it to get revenge.
Longcat is long. Language is language. Pharmakon is pharmakon. The phoneme topples the grapheme, witches ride through the night, our skulls hide secret messages on their surfaces, Smash Mouth is good after all. Hey now, you’re an all-star. Get your game on.
Go play.
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This video is proof that size does matter
I was saying to myself you could just go on mario kart tv to check why longcat was doing so bad, but the fact you followed him in race and then still placed so highly, leaving him behind is more hilarious 😂
9:45: Yoshi getting insta karma was hilarious 😂😂
that waluigi was relentless....
Wowww the mairo kart gods really blessed you on this one!
This is the first time im like on time for one of youe videos!!
I like that now that Shortcat is getting better and better, he can win even with not the best combo only, so we get to see more characters!
That waluigi you lapped in mario circuit was trolling you so bad
That waluigi player was hilarious.
i'm loving these videos when you're just racing, some of my favorites :D
We need a short(animal) vs long(animal) tournament
that waluigi player was out for blood
That Waluigi was a verified MENACE 😂
that waluigi is probably just pressed because of the super horn at mount wario lol
This is the fastest I’ve ever arrived to a video. also, I used the Petey, shoe monster tires and won twice in a row. From front running vs bagging video
waluigi is such a troll lol
Shortcat vs Shortfrog when?
Jokes aside, great video!
“Iron sharpens iron, and cat sharpens cat”
- Sensei Wu, probably