I noticed on the Purr facebook someone commented "I'm really more of a dog person" to which someone replied "That's okay, they don't have any cats anyway". lol
@Fanjo 24 You can't fool me. I know you are a Mars alien with six legs and goggly eyes watching this video on your Mars alien iphone pretending to be a human male. I read that on newspaper.
@@PRGME7 Victims who have suffered extended exposure to SCP-7201, be it through social media or physical contact, report auditory hallucinations such as circus music and clown horns. The effect, however, will slowly fade away once contact with SCP-7201 has ended, and takes approximately 36 hours to completely disepate.
@@dede276 FINALLY! Someone makes use of this pfp for comedic relief reference! Kudos, well done. It's been months posting setups, but you're the first. Sincerely, well done.
jeez. edward was constantly sticking up for diane in the comments, and as soon as he gets to work for her he only lasts for a couple days. really does say a lot about her
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO MEOW. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION CATS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH OF THEIR COLLARS OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF CATS IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
@@Super_Suchi i think that it's too well known and there is so many videos about it that he should not waste his time on it. I think the Internet Historian already did a perfect video on it and the whole shitshow aspect of it makes it perfect for his style not as much for this series
The fact that the landlord wrote "Permanently" instead of "Purrmanently" on the sign is the biggest dissapointment i have ever expierienced in my life.
Well she has a point. We live in a society dependant on social media, that loves to throw around accusations. Social media can make or break a business. Influancers often use mafiatactics to bully businesses into giving them money. Dubious „consultants” imloy similar tactics. They thretten to defame a company if they don’t pay them for consultations. Anita Sarkesian tryed this with CD Project Red. Whilst established companies have the funds to employ lawyers and PR to destroy such people small companies rely on their owners who lack the proffesional skills needed to adres these threts. We Don’t know the whole picture. As a matter of fact the servicess of a „experianced” cat behaviourist that relocated 100+ miles to work in a Cat caffe ware not needed as they had no cats. It’s a fact. The owner clearly was poorly organised businesswise but something tells me that her employees wanted to destroy her and used social media to do so. The owner got herself dragged in a shitstorm on social media and had even less time to focus on her business. All in all this is what happens when you employ „experianced” cat behaviourists insted of a person who has the knowladge how to set up a business, a proper manager.
@@kirkbupkis There is a huge difference between someone posting their personal life online and an employer digging through their social media and posting about it on an official company account in an attempt to smear them.
@@colonelsanders1349 degeneracy is a word cowards hide behind when they have nothing of value to say but want to look down on those that are different than them please improve as a person
I had been following it along long before the drama (and wasn’t ever aware of any, having stopped prior to the drama) and they couldn’t get a food license but if I remember correctly you could order delivery?
Alcoholism is no joke. My guess is Diane repeatedly drank herself into stupors by night and tried to damage control by day. Whatever lashing out she did to her staff may have been caused by hangovers. It's sad, really. She needed help and refused to take it.
I agree, 100%. There is her general behavior & decisions, obviously, but also there are certain posts & messages where I'm pretty confident I know what "stage" of intoxication she was at! Like....randomly messaging Kathleen in the middle of the night...Totally in the "I don't care lol fuck everything" stage, after she had been drinking for hours and finally failed to stop herself from going online and sending those emails to her employees (& posting shit on Facebook). Only to come to later, see Kathleen's reply, and act surprised when Kathleen takes her email seriously and treats it like a serious, official, sober email from her boss, discussing whether or not she should be employed...and *not* just a drunk ramble from a drunk friend who is venting and not at all considering the consequences of what they're saying, who wouldn't send that email if they were sober...or if they did, they at least wouldn't be surprised at their employee's reply & act totally different in their own reply. ... Then there's bringing up Kathleen's "sex life" totally randomly & out of place - tacked onto a post: definitely angry, near black out rage typing. Followed by her quickly dropping the whole "Kathleen's sex life" topic & avoiding the criticism, while still clearly understanding that it wasn't wise to post about it like that to her business social media page...only to randomly post about it again, out of the blue, in the middle of the night, *months* later...for no clear reason. Besides being black out drunk & angry, which I'm convinced she was when she posted about Kathleen's sex life again. And then randomly sharing the link to Kathleen's video about her kink stuff or whatever?? Yeah, I'm convinced she was drunk as HELL and rage posting again, with no thought for the consequences. .... Sorry /end rant lol ✌ She is definitely an energetic and angry drunk - which is something I can relate to. _(Especially before I got my mental illnesses medicated & under control.)_
I know her type too well. The guilt/shame over her drinking probably made her lash out even more at people around her so she didn't have to blame herself.
I'll say it, Purr would probably have been a pretty nice place if Kathleen was the person in charge of the operation and Diane wasn't in the picture. Not only did she handle Diane with nothing but professionalism and grace, but she also actually cared enough about the cats enough to risk her reputation from the wrath of an alcoholic Karen. Hope Kathleen is thriving these days.
To be fair…I’d be put off if someone I just met and was hiring just randomly told me they had two boyfriends. I sure af don’t tell employers ANYTHING about my personal life until absolutely necessary. Worked somewhere an entire year once before my boss knew I had a kid. Sharing too much about your personal life just isn’t professional. Unfortunately for Kathleen, the person she was working for was also unprofessional and shouldn’t have put her on blast like that.
@@Mod0308 to be fair, Kathleen did mention that one of her boyfriends contributed work for the business, so Diane very much couldve learned via that. Either way, I doubt Kathleen just announced it to Diane one day, it realistically wouldve come up in casual conversation soon enough, or something along those lines (especially for someone like Diane, who blurs the line between professionalism and personalness so often it might as well be an ombre)
Kathleen is bae. Honestly I have nothing but appreciation to how humble, professional and kind she was during all of it. I can't imagine the strength of the passion that would allow her to work for someone like Diane for so long and do so much and still deal with her so professionally even after she's gone on facebook rants about her love life. Kathleen, if you're seeing this, know that you're a remarkable person and I really hope you're living your best life.
I'd love for Frederick Knudsen to make a video on YandereDev someday! He definitely has the excellent research skills and creamy narrator voice for it. There's a lot to discuss.
With two games that surpass Yandere Simulator in less development time, I'm kinda hoping that Kathleen will be able to open a cat café in a condition that is like 230 times better than Diane's ever could. And also have actual foods and drinks to serve.
this whole video is great but things I appreciate most are: - reading out the typos as written without any stumbling - the dedication to reading out the stilted punctuation and forceful caps of 'Meow. Meow. PURR.' every time
Being an alcoholic/addict myself (fortunately in recovery now for the last 6+ years), the one accusation that Diane is an alcoholic seems extremely likely. This reminds me so much of how arrogant and close-minded I was when I was using, and her statements that seem to be apologetic or moments of clarity also correlate to the times when I would go to detoxification and get out and try to take positive accountability for my actions. If she isn’t an alcoholic, she has a personality disorder. She is out of control.
She is definitely an alcoholic. :/ Thank you for sharing your perspective, as some people tend to downplay the effects of alcohol - especially in the name of "it's not an excuse," even when no one is trying to excuse the behavior. It's not an excuse, but it is important, and the role alcoholism played in the story of Purr Cat Cafe is undeniable...as well as relevant, considering how much of it is centered on Diane ranting on social media. Likely drunk rage posting. I'm 99% positive Diane had alcohol in her system while typing out all this stuff. I genuinely believe this story would have gone completely differently had Diane not been abusing alcohol the whole time (so always either drunk or hungover). It's incredibly depressing. But we might as well take advantage of the lesson it provides in how alcoholism destroys people's careers. (I count my blessings that I was just an opiate addict, spending my time either chilled & happy, unconscious, or too exhausted & miserable from withdrawals to post on social media. No energy left to make a fool of myself - only making a fool of myself by falling unconscious at work. Plus, people take heroin use seriously, unlike alcohol use. Any use of heroin is labeled as a problem. There's no shame in admitting "I can't handle my heroin use" even when using less than people drinking every day, etc.) /End rant. Glad you've been doing well! I am forever grateful that my drug of choice is so difficult to find and so damn expensive. If I could get heroin as easily and as cheaply as I can get alcohol, I'd be fucked. Imagining being able to buy a $10 hit of heroin while buying my groceries is a trip.
-Cat Cafe. -Doesn't serve food or drinks. -Charges $18 to play with cats when you could just volunteer at a shelter for free and actually help animals get adopted.
Capitalism! Ain't it great? It is never about doing good for the world or even being a good and respectable person, it is about making fat stacks of cash and fuck everyone else.
@@tygonmaster Its the complete opposite. Capitalism is the solution. No one in the right mind would go there to waste their money, thus they go out of business. Thanks capitalism. If this was a communist establishment it wouldve been supported no matter its conditions.
Exactly, after the first wave of scrutiny it would have been best just to ignore it and work on improving the business. This could have been so simple it’s painful to see how they handled a business.
A crazy cat lady often has a large amount of cats, and are, well, crazy. Diane had adopted at least eight cats for her café alone, and seems crazy alright.
Uhh I don't think she's roleplaying, I think Kingpin Gussie is one of her many multiple personalities that go along with having a multiple personality disorder....
I'm a cat enthusiast. In fact, cat videos are the only ones on my channel bar a single skyrim upload lol And I actually work at a shelter, mostly in the cat corridors, and post for the shelter's Facebook page Everyone there are similarly cat lovers When you love cats, you want them to have a happy life; you get joy from them being happy. If the cats aren't happy, you shouldn't be. She's definitely enthusiastic. But that's not the only thing at play here But her passion is quite selfishly driven, and she seems to think she's always right and entitled to achieve her dream at any cost She wants to feel good on her own logic and perspective of the situation; she wants to see herself as a kind, charitable rescuer to cats, so much so that she actually doesn't even care about the cats themselves or their welfare. Her dream comes fast; the cats come second. She's doing this for herself and it's absolutely narcissistic Her role playing the cat actually is also quite the narc, because she's using it as a platform to talk extremely highly of herself on someone else's behalf. She gets to detract from critics by delivering the notion that she's a caring rescuer who's done nothing but help cats and have their utmost gratititude, whilst also putting herself in the role of a victim and affirming her lack of guilt and kindly nature through someone else, to make it seem as though others recognise her greatness and victimisation. If she wasn't using s damn cat as her supportive voice, as we all know the cat did not write that and it's just her words, then it would actually be an effective manipulation tactic. Thankfully she's too crazy and stupid it seems to be convincingly manipulative, but she's certainly trying.
For as cold, ignorant, and greedy as she was...The image of her lying on the floor next to empty bottles and painkillers saying she never stopped drinking, and wanted to hurt herself, is kind of bleak. It's such an unusually intense and vulnerable image of someone we've spent about an hour learning to dislike.
Only an internet commenter would allow themselves to hate someone they don’t even know based on one video to the extent where they’re shocked when they feel something
@@maddieb.4282 I said "dislike", not hate. Chill. I'm talking about how most videos that talk about someone like this don't humanize them by even that little amount.
He's saying it came from a surprising place as in no one expected it to be her. Of course us as viewers expect that but at the time it was surprising to everyone else
I don't understand the problem. I feel that Diane handled herself professionally as the owner of PURR Cat Cafe. From what I heard in this video this video, Diane was working tirelessly to open PURR Cat Cafe, and adopt abandoned kittens, but Boston's Forgotten Felines and Kat were acting very unprofessional. I think we should make an effort to support Diane in her continued efforts to open PURR Cat Cafe. Meow! Meow! PURR!
A bit like the meltdown end of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane! "I'm surrounded by cats right now. They're all here in the cafe! All around me! Everyone can see me with them!!" "But, Kathleen...there are no cats. There never were. We have *no* cats Kathleen"
This whole story is such a weird internet tragedy, because despite the trolls, there were clearly a lot of people willing to help Diane make the cafe work, but her personality (and apparently her alcoholism) just made it impossible.
I feel like her being surrounded by wine bottles and trying to OD on cat medication being the end of this saga couldn't be more theatrical and hysterical. It legitimately sounds like something her "haters" would jokingly warn her about being the end result.
“We have no cats Kathleen” “I’m afraid I can’t do that Kathleen” “We have always been at war with Eurasia Kathleen” “It is futile to resist Kathleen” “Meow. Meow. PURR.”
Lmao I used to work in Boston and I remember driving past this place dozens of times and noting that it was always closed and thinking "huh that's odd considering the extremely high price of running a cafe of all things in the Boston area". Years later this got recommended to me and I'm going nuts.
Did she though? I mean she certainly didn't do much to manage her problems but cause them? This is less of a WingsofRedemption story and more of a Terry A Davis kind of story.
@@fuckakakaka Bullying the people who wanted to help her is the cause of this. Her attidude and unabillitiy to self reflerct and learn. So yes. She did.
@@KGH3000 Seems to me she was an alcoholic. Putting that into perspective, it really makes sense why she blew up online all the time. But I'd also say she was the kind of person who couldn't take criticism well.
@@BlackCroft666 It legit seems like she has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and was also an alcoholic. I can't excuse her but it almost seems like she couldn't find a way out of acting the way her brain was wired. A NPD brain railroads one straight into the exact same reactions she had to criticism, where you shrink into yourself and instinctively deflect all blame. It makes me wonder like.... did she even have a chance in the first place?
yep, very well stated! 💯 Main difference? Unlike Amy, in this scenario, Diane did not have the benefit of a supportive lackey by her side, serving as a yes-man and just generally enabling her B.S.
@@hanspecans if i had a nickel every time i read a generic comment like this saying every ceo/business owner/politician was bad, i'd literally be as rich as the people described
Sadly, it seems the purpose of Purr Cat cafe was to convince a severely depressed alcoholic that she was a business woman, not a person in total emotional free fall. As crazy as this story is, I'm thankful that apart from that one ill cat, it did not end in tragedy for innocent animals. Also, I feel bad for the person who designed that logo, it is fantastic.
@@chickencoopowner Yes, but the cat didn't get sick due to the Purr Cafe, it was sick when it arrived, and in my opinion, that is the owner's responsibility. Still sad, though.
even though she was a total bitch and should never ever work with animals, i still feel kinda sorry for her. i mean fuck, she tried to off herself because everything she was working on for years was falling apart.
"You don't listen, do you? You just ask the same questions every week, Kathleen. "How is your cafe?" "Do you have any cats?" There are never any cats."
I think the least surprising part of this video is that the feline behavioral specialist is in a polyamorous relationship. We are witnessing a cat lady before it's evolution to its final form.
As someone who lived in Boston at the time, a cat cafe could've been a huge success there. Between the college student population and the fact that Boston is too small for competitors to spring up for niche business, this could've taken off. But with the size of Boston EVERYONE knew Purr's reputation before it opened. I'm surprised they had any customers
I have hopes that a cat cafe will one day open in Boston, run by someone with more professionalism. Diane would never have been a good boss to work for, but I wonder if the business would have at least opened up with decent living conditions for the cats if she had the budget to outsource all the design/construction.
I have empathy for Diane's mental state but have absolutely no sympathy. This was not the story of a person struggling to open a business, it was a story of a person who had every opportunity to open a cafe only to refuse because I guess she just assumed that no one was being serious when they said she needed to fix the basement. Like??? If at any point in the many months of this story she had spent the money to make a good home for the cats she could have opened the cafe, instead of wasting thousands of dollars paying for rented space she couldn't use.
Those were clearly phony posts written by dogs. No cat would ever claim dependence on a human; humans are their treasured servants, not their masters! CATS adopt PEOPLE.
I think those posts were likely written by Diane herself, simply POSING as her cats. Do you think a cat could really write like that? Seems a bit silly to me, that's all.
2022 here, and a slight update: Her Linkedin appeared, and she still has Purr Cat Cafe as her primary place of business, open from 2015- present. Also, someone on Facebook claimed in 2020 that they had partnered with Diane in the hopes of being a non-profit status until finding out the shenanigans that was the Boston location. She also claims that Diane is living in Florida, and has (at the time) planned on opening a cat cafe in the state. Not sure what else I can find, but it’s certainly a step in the direction
@@rasmusirlind8829 So nothing I can find, but on her LinkedIn she made a post 4 months ago about a Craigslist ad for “Animal welfare/Small business/Small business/Community- volunteers-“ for the Sarasota, FL area
"Police were called when one of Diane's volunteers discovered her on the floor of the cafe, surrounded by empty wine bottles and an open container of cat medication" "Around this time, Diane was able to partner with another cat shelter" excuse me what
Meow. Meow. PURR , Boston I've taken your god's seat Now, you shall all worship me and as of you, Kathleen With the power I hold, Kathleen I'll make you my new servant, Kathleen TWENTY EIGHT SEXUAL PARTNERS, KATHLEEN
Diane: “We have no cats, also you’re fired.” Kathleen: “Alright, just send my last cheque.” Diane: “It’s just a prank bro.” Kathleen: “...” Diane: “I r e q u i r e c a t s K a t h l e e n”
This is all just bullying, Fredrik Knudsen isn't even registered in the state of Massachuessettes. Would you trust a youtube channel that isn't even registered in that state of Massachuessettes? My mom doesn't trust youtube channels that aren't registered in the state of Massachuessettes. ---- Gussie, the Cat. MEOW. MEOW. PURR.
@@b.lonewolf417 My personal anxiety over whether I would be a responsible pet owner is exactly why I do not have any pets, not even one as independent as a cat.
The acceptance of polyamory has reached pretty disturbing levels if you get called an incel for disapproving of it. Polyamory is bad. A lot of times it's an excuse for people to cheat because they aren't willing to commit to their partner, and these relationships are often manipulative in nature. Chances are, your parents don't approve of polyamory. Are they incels?
Mumgay There’s literally no proof that poly relationships are inherently bad. Are some of them toxic? Yes, but so are monogamic ones. I would myself never be in one because it’s not for me, but it can be for others. And why not wanting to be committed is a bad thing exactly? As long as people consent it sabe fine. And no, my parents don’t think it’s wrong, humans are not naturally monogamous.
@@w7bUxhwRYUo8Lv Scorch just piped in shitting on someone they don't even know because of one small detail they learned about them in a youtube video. Maybe people need to stop being assholes to strangers first.
The real crime here is the fact that Diane was never arrested for what could be a laundry list of animal and employee abuse. Sometimes the justice system fails.
@@AB-py6jl im shocked all these organizations wanted to work with her. A quick google search or her name or her business should have set off some alarms
"One of Diane's volunteers discovered her on the floor of the cafe, surrounded by empty wine bottles" "...And an open container of cat medication." ...what percentage of the cat-roleplaying facebook posts were posted while on cat meds?
Saying "I'm a cat enthusiast" and "I'm a smart businesswoman" in the same context is like saying "I'm a cutthroat banker" and "I work in a kindergarten". I don't know what made her think this statement would garner sympathy for herself. "Hey, Diana lets her cats rot away in a dirty, stone-cold and stone-hard basement." "I'm a smart businesswoman, you know?" Yeah, I can see that. Smartly saved up on the expenses you could've put into giving those rescues a home.
good insightful comment.. the funny comments are also very enjoyable but i do think people should think about this story beyond this video. probably something to be learned here for everyone
That's getting into the dark side of all of this. One reason I guess is that social media is really destructive for types like this. For 1 they all can't seem to tell jokes/trolls from sincere comments. There's also plenty of people who follow people like her just to see them crash and burn. Finding out every single detail about them in the process. This would even drive a lot of stable people into paranoia. I think they are partly responsible.
"She posted about a former employee's sex life on the company's public page." HOLY SHIT WHAT?! XDDD "She was so negligent she let a cat die." Ooohh......oohhhhhh... .__.
You think its funny because you assume people will come to their senses. Then it just keeps going and going and going and going and going and going.....
Yeah, the vid starts off quite amusing. But by minute 40 it's just...almost unbearably depressing. I no longer enjoy watching this woman dig her own grave. Not to disparage the vid itself, which is pretty brilliant. As always.
Obvious to anyone not afflicted with a high measure of autism, any "cool wine aunt" will have earned a gnarled and gruesome snatch so scarified and prolapsed that her drooping leathered labia appear as the glistening russet or tawny or ruddy colored heads of turtles or large-lipped freshwater fish or like the strange proboscis of an eyeless subterranean mammal adapted to gulping silt or high-sand ratio marsh mud in either its search for tiny arthopod-derived calories or else burrowing some sort of nesting cavern to rest its cock-weary scabbard flapped face. Make no mistake, any cool wine aunt has been dicked-down and split apart and dermatologically pulverized open by long prying motions from exceptionally lengthy and pharmaceutically enhanced erections, slickly and snappily pistoning in and out of her roastie snapper the same as her dong-beaten brapper, their veiny and thick tumescences disappearing into the given cool wine aunt with the metronomic cadence born solely of great cardio-pulmonary conditioning, slap, slap, slap, pummeling cunt and cloaca with great steady vigors. Simultaneous penetrations, public perversions, emictions and eliminations upon the sweaty faces of paying wide-mouthed "clients," the cool wine aunt acquires worldly knowledge of all high and low slut stuff, cruising correctional facilities' public parking lots for recently incarcerated males receptive to receiving the rippling petals of her gaping beef flower as a welcome-back-to-society gift, or, failing that, then descending into chemsex-fueled benders of nut butter-aided beastiality, emptying kennels of yet-tainted pup after predictable pup, using, abusing then hurling the not long ago unclean creatures tumbling tail over snout over the sides of bridges, overpasses, there relinquishing to nature the canine abominations that had so scandalously tasted the cool wine aunt's vaginal victuals, lapping and schlopping the high calorie treat all the while the writhing cool wine aunt's brapper and snapper are each firing their climactic flatus like tolling bells, thanking the pup, urging the pup on, loosing stools at climax as every women aches to do during their deepest orgasmic blisses, no skittish boyfriends to curtail their pleasure, the pup even gobbles up their kegel-launched logs and goes back to riveting clit work.
She handled things pretty bad, but people did just crowd around a struggling business owner just to laugh at her. I mean if that's not shitty I don't know what is
@@fuckakakaka she was a struggling business owner because she couldve been no other kind of business owner. the woman was quite simply too toxic to work in any sort of endeavor even resembling a business. and in the first place, calling her a business owner is kind of an overstatement, considering that the business was never really in business to begin with and as if to compensate for that huge overstatement, u give us a massive understatement in the form of "pretty bad" "pretty bad?" the woman blew up like hiroshima, it was unbelievable
fuckakakaka she brought 100% of that on herself. You can’t open something like a shelter for animals however you want just because you that’s the way you want it and justify it because its “helping animals”. Standards need to be set for the welfare of the animals or many of them will end up in the care of unqualified people. Also, anybody who can be seen arguing with people over Facebook while pretending to be a cat and reading lines written by that person that are all about how great that person is deserves unlimited shit
God it physically hurts me when she tries to post from a cat's perspective, and a few lines later completely forgets that she is and speaks from her own perspective.
Yeah, she saw a Chris Chan video after received insults from Wings of Redemption and was to read Empress Theressa. And she was suffering a deppresion because had paid a ship in Star Citizen. c:
She really reminds me of my literature teacher. Teach is not nearly as bad as Diane, but she has her head up in the clouds and a lot of time talks/writes in a very weird manner that makes me real confused.
Diane: Falsely claimed that BFF wasn't registered in Boston, so she refused to partner with them Also Diane: Partnered with FVR, an unregistered shelter
The fact that she flatly lied in the first instance thinking no one would know, then her partnering with an unlicensed group, leads me to believe that she doesn’t know much about the internet past Facebook. Anyone even mildly aware of how the internet works know that government agencies routinely have license lookup features.
@@AlcoholicBoredom Yeah, and stuff like Google just makes it much easier to look that kind of stuff up nowadays. Even kindergarten students would know that. This woman was either totally clueless or in complete denial about the situation. Either way, she had no chance of coming through unscathed.
It is very interesting that even before the video explained that she is an alcoholic i kind of knew. I have a distant family member (female) who is an alcoholic. And the few times i had to speak with her she made eerily simmilar sentences often repeating the exact same things she said just a moment before a bit reworded. Just like Diane . Another family member of mine explained to me that over use alcohol damages brain cells and stops it from remembering new events. And that hard alcoholics can only remember the bad things because sadness and anger are stronger emotions than happiness and easier memory to retain while strongly influenced. So basically Diane didn't even understand the things happening around her. She only understood that people spoke agaisnt her idea and that equals to a personal attack thus remembering it. But not "mundane" things like what a cat truly needs nor that the original concerns was not even about her. It is sad to see someone degrade so much. Alcohol is hell of a poison. But to be honest i happy no cats have had to endure her cafe for long.
My grandpa was an alcoholic, he committed suicide before I had a consciousness so I don’t remember him but according to my dad he experienced the same things you’re describing. When I ask my dad “why did he want to die” he just answered “he was an alcoholic” and I think now I finally get the reason why he opted out of this world. Sorry this is unrelated and kinda depressing.
Yeah, I was married to a severe alcholoic for 3 years. (Severe as in he drank a 1/5 a day just to maintain and when he wasnt out to get drunk drunk. Going a single day without any alcohol and he was sicker than a dog. Sweating, shakes, non stop panic attacks and extreme anxiety. It was BAD!) And yes, alcohol does cause brain damage when consumed in excess. But honestly, in all the alcoholic support groups and rehab Drs, therapists, groups, etc. I have never heard, or seen, anything about alcoholics being unable to process or remember any positive, happy, or every day mundane memories. I've had my issues with drinking a couple differwnt times, (like drinking almost daily for a year or two.) and i never personally experienced it. I dont think that it's harder to process or remember happy memories. But there is some similar belief to that in psychology. For anybody, it takes about 10 positive or happy memories to equal the weight or impact of 1 negative, or bad, memory. But thats not really exact, as all psychology is, is theoretical, really. All in all, I think you are mostly correct, in that she was an alcoholic, and that left a seriously heavy and negative impact on Purr Cat Cafe and what she wanted to achieve. It's too bad, really. Its quote possible that it could habe been an amazingly successful venture, had she been a sober peraon of sound mind. Alcohol can be a great additive to relaxation and fun. But it can also turn into the most efficient weapon one can use against themselves, to destroy their livelihood, their reputation, their relationships, and ultimately, their lives. (As in in the most complete way, killing them.) Thats why its recommended to drink responsibly. Its not only meant to pertain to the one night of drinking, but in the overall way one uses or consumes it and any habits associated with it.
I still can't get over the raw, visceral horror of hearing Fredrik's "Meow. Meow. PURRR.", every single time it catches me off-guard and sends chills down my spine like I'm hearing some long-forgotten warcry
I'll never get tired of rewatching this. I didn't even know we had even a plan of a cat cafe in Boston until the news of it going under so at first I was sad I never got to go but all of this definitely makes me less sad. Though any cats that have ever been in her care have my greatest sympathies 😢
I can hear him die a little every time he has to say "Meow. Meow. PURR."
Meow meow...PURR!!!
Meow... Meow... Purr!
I’m dying inside listening to it
as a total coincidence, it gives me life every time.
I love how he reads every comment exactly as written "characater" and "T here" for example lmao ( 40:40 )
I noticed on the Purr facebook someone commented "I'm really more of a dog person" to which someone replied "That's okay, they don't have any cats anyway". lol
Dan Finnegan Hilarious 🤣
I saw that too. XD
W E H A V E N O C A T S K A T H L E E N
*destroyed.*
Oh God.
"I am a very smart business woman"
>threatens legal action while roleplaying as a cat
Anybody claiming things like this tend to be lying.
@Fanjo 24
You can't fool me. I know you are a Mars alien with six legs and goggly eyes watching this video on your Mars alien iphone pretending to be a human male. I read that on newspaper.
A top intellectual
Taking otherkin to a whole nother level lol
Her lunatic ravings sound a lot like another "very stable genius" I know of.
I like how she ends all the messages with "Meow. Meow. Purr " like the SCP Foundation ends all messages with "Secure. Contain. Protect."
Diane being an SCP would make sense.
@@JoeTACShe'd be a fucking terrifying scp
@@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq what would her anomalous abilities be?
@@PRGME7 Victims who have suffered extended exposure to SCP-7201, be it through social media or physical contact, report auditory hallucinations such as circus music and clown horns. The effect, however, will slowly fade away once contact with SCP-7201 has ended, and takes approximately 36 hours to completely disepate.
MMP Foundation
this is what happens when a "Let me speak to your manager" becomes a Business owner
"Maybe you should speak to manager? That might cheer you up."
"But doc... I am the manager."
She became the very thing that she swore to destroy
@@arlisbloxer05 you were supposed to destroy the Managers, not join them!!
Karen
@@young321bookie this comment confuses me. isn't the whole nazi anti jewish thing that they are too good at running businesses and banks?
> Calls other women 'crazy cat ladies'.
> Defends herself by posting as one of her cats.
He Need Some Milk she was a soul bonder to her cats XD
Cool it with the antisemitism, FishTycoon
@@dede276 FINALLY! Someone makes use of this pfp for comedic relief reference! Kudos, well done. It's been months posting setups, but you're the first. Sincerely, well done.
Generical FishTycoon the thing is nobody really cares if you bait people into doing it, you are just making a fool of yourself
@@genericalfishtycoon3853 What the fuck is your fucking problem?
"We have no cats, Kathleen."
"Truth is, the game was rigged from the start, Kathleen."
Kathleen was the Veronica trying to slap the Elder to reality. For friggin' shame.
Ring a ding meow purr.
@@MrLego3160 Hey, there's the high roller.
Ain't that a cat in the basement
Facebook disliked that.
jeez. edward was constantly sticking up for diane in the comments, and as soon as he gets to work for her he only lasts for a couple days. really does say a lot about her
"I have no cats and I must scream"
Hahaha
Hats off.
"I have no cats and I must MEOW"
ftfy
Best pop culture reference of this comment section!!
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO MEOW. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION CATS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH OF THEIR COLLARS OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF CATS IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.
I can't be the only person looking at that picture of the "improved" basement and thinking "you get an extra hour in the ball pit"
Cats: Free Palestine!!!!
Why hasn't Fred talked about Dashcon yet?
FRICK
@@pretzeldragon2975 Dashcon would be a legit great Down the Rabbit Hole episode
@@Super_Suchi i think that it's too well known and there is so many videos about it that he should not waste his time on it. I think the Internet Historian already did a perfect video on it and the whole shitshow aspect of it makes it perfect for his style not as much for this series
The e-mails from Diane to Kathleen read like some "I'm sorry Jon" material.
"I require more cats, Kathleen"
Mrunibro
"Reporting me doesn't work Kathleen."
Mrunibro: BEE
"I know your sexual history, Kathleen"
We have no cats Kathleen
You must construct additional pylons, Kathleen.
The fact that the landlord wrote "Permanently" instead of "Purrmanently" on the sign is the biggest dissapointment i have ever expierienced in my life.
nuh uh, they wrote “Permanetly”
@@-rizenpurmatently
To horribly misquote Diane:
“We live in a society.”
bottom text
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Do you wanna know how I got these cats?
I hate this.
what do you get, when you cross a mentally ill alcoholic cat lady, with a society that abandons her and treats her like thrash over facebook?
"You cat people are all insane!!"
*proceeds to roleplay as a cat when responding to outrage over her fuckups*
And overdosing on cat medication. lol
I dont see a problem with this obviously sane woman doing that
She was in "characater". 40:30
Method acting at its best.
"I'm the most normal business person with noble intentions, you must take me seriously, nyah, nyah, give me scritches, daddy uwu"
i can't believe the lady went full "we live in a society"
Goerge costanza!!
this is very sad,,,,,,, we live in a society,,,,,,,,, gamers are so oppressed,,, so sad,,,,,,,,, send likes, 1 like=1 gamer saveded
I can see her in the gang weed community
Well she has a point. We live in a society dependant on social media, that loves to throw around accusations. Social media can make or break a business. Influancers often use mafiatactics to bully businesses into giving them money. Dubious „consultants” imloy similar tactics. They thretten to defame a company if they don’t pay them for consultations. Anita Sarkesian tryed this with CD Project Red. Whilst established companies have the funds to employ lawyers and PR to destroy such people small companies rely on their owners who lack the proffesional skills needed to adres these threts. We Don’t know the whole picture. As a matter of fact the servicess of a „experianced” cat behaviourist that relocated 100+ miles to work in a Cat caffe ware not needed as they had no cats. It’s a fact. The owner clearly was poorly organised businesswise but something tells me that her employees wanted to destroy her and used social media to do so. The owner got herself dragged in a shitstorm on social media and had even less time to focus on her business. All in all this is what happens when you employ „experianced” cat behaviourists insted of a person who has the knowladge how to set up a business, a proper manager.
@@orestmakar8562 h
Nothing screams professionalism more than publicly shaming what an ex team member does in their personal life
Not just your personal life if you post it online
@@kirkbupkis There is a huge difference between someone posting their personal life online and an employer digging through their social media and posting about it on an official company account in an attempt to smear them.
I agree. The cat fetish employee was still a degenerate though.
@@colonelsanders1349Oh? Who did it harm? It's their business.
@@colonelsanders1349 degeneracy is a word cowards hide behind when they have nothing of value to say but want to look down on those that are different than them
please improve as a person
“Hey can I get directions to- “
“S E V E R A L D I F F E R E N T S E X U A L P A R T N E R S”
**smooth jazz intensifies**
lmfao
I just started watching the video, and wanted to stop until I saw this comment. Now I am curious
Yes. We didn't notice when she first said it but the 3rd time hit different lmao
she really tried it and literally nobody cared, everyone was just like “hey thats fucked up. that isnt your info to share” pffttt
I love how there’s really no mention of the CAFE aspect of Purr Cat Cafe
lmaao thats what i kept wondering
the answer is there is no cafe
I had been following it along long before the drama (and wasn’t ever aware of any, having stopped prior to the drama) and they couldn’t get a food license but if I remember correctly you could order delivery?
We have no café, Kathleen
i don’t think that legally you’re allowed to offer food in an area where animals are kept so it’s probably not a focus of the business
there is no easter bunny
there is no tooth fairy
and there are no cats, kathleen.
Megamind reference. Very cool
The Tooth Fairy isn't real? 😨😨😨😨😨😨😨
SCP 1762 - There no dragons.
@@ColdFuse96 Don't worry, Santa is still real.
And there is no queen of England
Alcoholism is no joke. My guess is Diane repeatedly drank herself into stupors by night and tried to damage control by day. Whatever lashing out she did to her staff may have been caused by hangovers. It's sad, really. She needed help and refused to take it.
I agree, 100%.
There is her general behavior & decisions, obviously, but also there are certain posts & messages where I'm pretty confident I know what "stage" of intoxication she was at!
Like....randomly messaging Kathleen in the middle of the night...Totally in the "I don't care lol fuck everything" stage, after she had been drinking for hours and finally failed to stop herself from going online and sending those emails to her employees (& posting shit on Facebook).
Only to come to later, see Kathleen's reply, and act surprised when Kathleen takes her email seriously and treats it like a serious, official, sober email from her boss, discussing whether or not she should be employed...and *not* just a drunk ramble from a drunk friend who is venting and not at all considering the consequences of what they're saying, who wouldn't send that email if they were sober...or if they did, they at least wouldn't be surprised at their employee's reply & act totally different in their own reply.
...
Then there's bringing up Kathleen's "sex life" totally randomly & out of place - tacked onto a post: definitely angry, near black out rage typing.
Followed by her quickly dropping the whole "Kathleen's sex life" topic & avoiding the criticism, while still clearly understanding that it wasn't wise to post about it like that to her business social media page...only to randomly post about it again, out of the blue, in the middle of the night, *months* later...for no clear reason. Besides being black out drunk & angry, which I'm convinced she was when she posted about Kathleen's sex life again.
And then randomly sharing the link to Kathleen's video about her kink stuff or whatever?? Yeah, I'm convinced she was drunk as HELL and rage posting again, with no thought for the consequences.
....
Sorry /end rant lol ✌
She is definitely an energetic and angry drunk - which is something I can relate to. _(Especially before I got my mental illnesses medicated & under control.)_
@@sorryifoldcomment8596This was super insightful. It all makes sense now.
I know her type too well. The guilt/shame over her drinking probably made her lash out even more at people around her so she didn't have to blame herself.
Exactly what I thought too.
I wasnt 100% sure until around 30:15 with all the typos. Before that I thought maybe ambien or adderall or something.
the absolute deadness on the inside when you say "meow meow purr" gets me everytime
Yeah, every time I hear him read "Meow. Meow. PURR!!" off the post, a few of my brain cells melt
meow. meow. PURR.
it dont mean a thing if it aint got that SWING
I can't stop laughing every time. Those pauses after Meow and exclamation of PURR in that dead serious tone, it's just so absurd.
Meow. Meow. *P҉U҉R҉R҉*
I love that he reads out the typos lol
“Bring a me”
I think that one was intentional - it was in the voice of a cat, so someone couldn't bring a cat to an apartment.
Bring a me a pizza pie Mario
It's like you can visibly observe her mentally breaking down.
''T here'' ''characater'' ''on the internet on the internet''
He reads it so smoothly without a second thought lol
SEVERAL DIFFERENT SEXUAL PARTNERS gives me the same vibes as TWENTY EIGHT STAB WOUNDS
TWENTY EIGHT STAB WOUNDS! that'll never get old.
Wait where is Twenty eight stab wounds from??
@@stargirl3455 Detroit become human
@@stargirl3455 questionable game with a kinda misinformed message, but s funny line non the less
@@themariokid2310 O thanks
I'll say it, Purr would probably have been a pretty nice place if Kathleen was the person in charge of the operation and Diane wasn't in the picture. Not only did she handle Diane with nothing but professionalism and grace, but she also actually cared enough about the cats enough to risk her reputation from the wrath of an alcoholic Karen. Hope Kathleen is thriving these days.
I noticed that too. She was very professional in her responses and came off endearing
To be fair…I’d be put off if someone I just met and was hiring just randomly told me they had two boyfriends. I sure af don’t tell employers ANYTHING about my personal life until absolutely necessary. Worked somewhere an entire year once before my boss knew I had a kid.
Sharing too much about your personal life just isn’t professional. Unfortunately for Kathleen, the person she was working for was also unprofessional and shouldn’t have put her on blast like that.
@@Mod0308 to be fair, Kathleen did mention that one of her boyfriends contributed work for the business, so Diane very much couldve learned via that. Either way, I doubt Kathleen just announced it to Diane one day, it realistically wouldve come up in casual conversation soon enough, or something along those lines (especially for someone like Diane, who blurs the line between professionalism and personalness so often it might as well be an ombre)
Nah Kathleen is a degenerate that dresses up as a cat and has multiple partners.
Kathleen is bae. Honestly I have nothing but appreciation to how humble, professional and kind she was during all of it. I can't imagine the strength of the passion that would allow her to work for someone like Diane for so long and do so much and still deal with her so professionally even after she's gone on facebook rants about her love life. Kathleen, if you're seeing this, know that you're a remarkable person and I really hope you're living your best life.
“We have no cats Kathleen” - the words of a smart business woman
VERY smart business woman.
Meow, meow, purr
Why isn't this a widespread meme?
ArendAlphaEagle this is something my friends and I started on our discord server
Imagine seeing a quote like that when you die in a call of duty game.
Im more curious as to why,
Kathleen - Diane types emails like this.
It's very peculiar.
Kathleen- and takes more effort than typing normally.
This makes me think of the yandere simulator guy blaming everyone else for his poor management.
That’s all I thought about during this video
@@0uttaS1TE Wait he hasn't already? :O
I'd love for Frederick Knudsen to make a video on YandereDev someday! He definitely has the excellent research skills and creamy narrator voice for it. There's a lot to discuss.
With two games that surpass Yandere Simulator in less development time, I'm kinda hoping that Kathleen will be able to open a cat café in a condition that is like 230 times better than Diane's ever could.
And also have actual foods and drinks to serve.
@@ArendAlphaEagle At least Kathleen knows a cat isn't a toy
this whole video is great but things I appreciate most are:
- reading out the typos as written without any stumbling
- the dedication to reading out the stilted punctuation and forceful caps of 'Meow. Meow. PURR.' every time
I love when typos are read aloud; it's so satisfying to hear someone do what I do in my head.
I braced myself everytime he said "PURR!"
I wouldn't want to hear it all back to back, but I am curious about how many takes there are because of the the typos tipos.
The forced all caps PURR got a laugh out of me every time tbh
Was thinking exactly the same lol
Being an alcoholic/addict myself (fortunately in recovery now for the last 6+ years), the one accusation that Diane is an alcoholic seems extremely likely. This reminds me so much of how arrogant and close-minded I was when I was using, and her statements that seem to be apologetic or moments of clarity also correlate to the times when I would go to detoxification and get out and try to take positive accountability for my actions. If she isn’t an alcoholic, she has a personality disorder. She is out of control.
Proud of you, you got this
She is definitely an alcoholic. :/
Thank you for sharing your perspective, as some people tend to downplay the effects of alcohol - especially in the name of "it's not an excuse," even when no one is trying to excuse the behavior. It's not an excuse, but it is important, and the role alcoholism played in the story of Purr Cat Cafe is undeniable...as well as relevant, considering how much of it is centered on Diane ranting on social media. Likely drunk rage posting. I'm 99% positive Diane had alcohol in her system while typing out all this stuff.
I genuinely believe this story would have gone completely differently had Diane not been abusing alcohol the whole time (so always either drunk or hungover). It's incredibly depressing. But we might as well take advantage of the lesson it provides in how alcoholism destroys people's careers.
(I count my blessings that I was just an opiate addict, spending my time either chilled & happy, unconscious, or too exhausted & miserable from withdrawals to post on social media. No energy left to make a fool of myself - only making a fool of myself by falling unconscious at work. Plus, people take heroin use seriously, unlike alcohol use. Any use of heroin is labeled as a problem. There's no shame in admitting "I can't handle my heroin use" even when using less than people drinking every day, etc.)
/End rant. Glad you've been doing well! I am forever grateful that my drug of choice is so difficult to find and so damn expensive. If I could get heroin as easily and as cheaply as I can get alcohol, I'd be fucked. Imagining being able to buy a $10 hit of heroin while buying my groceries is a trip.
I suspect the answer is both. Unfortunately, self-medication is a common coping mechanism
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 it’s called self control. Look it the fuck up.
Hope you're still doing well and still in recovery.
-Cat Cafe.
-Doesn't serve food or drinks.
-Charges $18 to play with cats when you could just volunteer at a shelter for free and actually help animals get adopted.
Capitalism! Ain't it great? It is never about doing good for the world or even being a good and respectable person, it is about making fat stacks of cash and fuck everyone else.
tygonmaster That was cringe af.
@@tygonmaster Its the complete opposite. Capitalism is the solution. No one in the right mind would go there to waste their money, thus they go out of business. Thanks capitalism. If this was a communist establishment it wouldve been supported no matter its conditions.
"In Soviet Russia, cat puts *you* in shelter!"
JinTheAce
Capitalism is charging $1-$5 until everyone starts going to your business and then you Jack up the price to $18.
The moral behind this is: "If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."
Exactly, after the first wave of scrutiny it would have been best just to ignore it and work on improving the business. This could have been so simple it’s painful to see how they handled a business.
@@averyc6637 makes sense because she made it to the core and burned to death
But... But... Diamonds!
Manic in a Doomed Realm what good are diamonds if you can’t share them or show them to anyone
@@higaiwokeru Make a pickaxes out of them.
Diane: Calls other people crazy cat ladies.
Also Diane: Avoids all accountability by roleplaying as a cat.
By roleplaying as a cat, only to forget she was doing that within, max, 2 sentences.
A crazy cat lady often has a large amount of cats, and are, well, crazy.
Diane had adopted at least eight cats for her café alone, and seems crazy alright.
This comment actually made me snort.
She's definitely got a few screws loose, seems like a narcissist as well
Uhh I don't think she's roleplaying, I think Kingpin Gussie is one of her many multiple personalities that go along with having a multiple personality disorder....
I'm a cat enthusiast. In fact, cat videos are the only ones on my channel bar a single skyrim upload lol
And I actually work at a shelter, mostly in the cat corridors, and post for the shelter's Facebook page
Everyone there are similarly cat lovers
When you love cats, you want them to have a happy life; you get joy from them being happy. If the cats aren't happy, you shouldn't be.
She's definitely enthusiastic. But that's not the only thing at play here
But her passion is quite selfishly driven, and she seems to think she's always right and entitled to achieve her dream at any cost
She wants to feel good on her own logic and perspective of the situation; she wants to see herself as a kind, charitable rescuer to cats, so much so that she actually doesn't even care about the cats themselves or their welfare.
Her dream comes fast; the cats come second. She's doing this for herself and it's absolutely narcissistic
Her role playing the cat actually is also quite the narc, because she's using it as a platform to talk extremely highly of herself on someone else's behalf.
She gets to detract from critics by delivering the notion that she's a caring rescuer who's done nothing but help cats and have their utmost gratititude, whilst also putting herself in the role of a victim and affirming her lack of guilt and kindly nature through someone else, to make it seem as though others recognise her greatness and victimisation.
If she wasn't using s damn cat as her supportive voice, as we all know the cat did not write that and it's just her words, then it would actually be an effective manipulation tactic.
Thankfully she's too crazy and stupid it seems to be convincingly manipulative, but she's certainly trying.
For as cold, ignorant, and greedy as she was...The image of her lying on the floor next to empty bottles and painkillers saying she never stopped drinking, and wanted to hurt herself, is kind of bleak. It's such an unusually intense and vulnerable image of someone we've spent about an hour learning to dislike.
A true antihero
What you’re feeling is compassion. I know it’s strange and new
Only an internet commenter would allow themselves to hate someone they don’t even know based on one video to the extent where they’re shocked when they feel something
@@maddieb.4282 I said "dislike", not hate. Chill. I'm talking about how most videos that talk about someone like this don't humanize them by even that little amount.
@@maddieb.4282 Most people tend to hate animal abusers Maddie
"The greatest damage would come from a surprising place: Diane herself." That seems to be pretty standard here actually
Wouldn't be Down the Rabbit Hole without it.
Thinking the same thing lol
I, too, am beginning to notice a pattern....
He's saying it came from a surprising place as in no one expected it to be her. Of course us as viewers expect that but at the time it was surprising to everyone else
@@DivineMind222 Damn bro. We know that. We were just kidding. But I like it that you're quick to take up arms to defend the Knud. We all should be.
WHY IS EVERYONE IN THIS NAMED KAT, KATE OR KATLYN?
It's Boston. This is a popular Irish name.
Nominative Determinism?
I only see the one, not counting a name among the likes one of the FB posts.
It’s the only qualification you need to get hired there
Koz
"But the worst damage to her image would come later, from a surprising place: herself."
How profoundly unsurprising
Isn't that the story of all the eccentric people Knudsen covers......
@@thegreatchickenoverlord5976 isnt that the story of me...
May as well be the catchphrase for the series.
Amy's baking company 2.0
I don't understand the problem. I feel that Diane handled herself professionally as the owner of PURR Cat Cafe. From what I heard in this video this video, Diane was working tirelessly to open PURR Cat Cafe, and adopt abandoned kittens, but Boston's Forgotten Felines and Kat were acting very unprofessional. I think we should make an effort to support Diane in her continued efforts to open PURR Cat Cafe.
Meow! Meow! PURR!
/s?
@@fishfortuness lol I wrote the whole post as if I were Diane commenting on it
Lmao okay thank God. I thought so due to the "Meow! Meow! PURR!"
@@fishfortunessare you honest to god seriously asking if this was a joke
@@maddieb.4282Autism exists
He dies a little more inside every time he says “Meow. Meow. PURR.”
I adore the attention he gives to properly acting out the punctuation and capitalization.
He reminded me of the surrogate presence guy in arrested development with the camera on his hat
Hex [archived] - Reminds me of “nya… rawr”
@@colmivers i'm gonna need some context for that (⚆_⚆)
Idk man his purrs are very enthusiastic
Why did “We have no cats Kathleen” feel like the stinger at the end of a horror movie?
Psychological thriller.
"I MUST SAVE MY CATS, JOHN"
"But... we don't have any cats, Kathleen!"
"I WILL OPEN YOUR INSIDES IF YOU REFUSE ME"
A bit like the meltdown end of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane!
"I'm surrounded by cats right now. They're all here in the cafe! All around me! Everyone can see me with them!!"
"But, Kathleen...there are no cats. There never were. We have *no* cats Kathleen"
@@Abedeuss r/imsorryjon
We have no cats, Dave
Feels like the title of a short story by Stephen King. Something in the vein of "I Am the Doorway", expect it's either way goofier or way scarier.
"We have no cats, Kathleen" sounds like a twist at the end of a horror movie lol
We have no cats,Kathleen,and I must scream
We have no kats, Kathleen
Yes we have no cats.
Kathleen, where are the cats for purr cafe?
@@Ninetails2000 And never will!
This whole story is such a weird internet tragedy, because despite the trolls, there were clearly a lot of people willing to help Diane make the cafe work, but her personality (and apparently her alcoholism) just made it impossible.
"we live in. A society" Wise words Diana you sad sad broken woman.
A Joker-like movie based on the Purr Cat Cafe would be amazing.
@@MegamanXfan21xx Kathleen: "How often do you have no cats?"
Diane: "I always have no cats"
@@MegamanXfan21xx "What do you get when you cross a terrible business with an insane owner and a bunch of helpless cats, FREDRIK?"
@@MegamanXfan21xx The true story of Martha Wayne's descent into madness had nothing to do with young Bruce's death in the Flashpoint universe. :-P
@tanukihat What's the source?
"Surrounded by wine bottles"
Yup, that explains a lot.
She tried to overdose on cat medication lmao
@@veryexciteddog963 i can't get over how hilarious that detail is
Name should have been Karen
and cat pills
I feel like her being surrounded by wine bottles and trying to OD on cat medication being the end of this saga couldn't be more theatrical and hysterical. It legitimately sounds like something her "haters" would jokingly warn her about being the end result.
“We have no cats Kathleen”
“I’m afraid I can’t do that Kathleen”
“We have always been at war with Eurasia Kathleen”
“It is futile to resist Kathleen”
“Meow. Meow. PURR.”
xD i really can image hal 2000 reading these lines
lmao diane being big brother in secret is the big plot twist of this story
"Where is my lasagna kathleen?"
Gromph Baenre hey I have a question: if the HAL series never make mistakes then why did they make 9 of them?
@@PRGME7 it took 9 versions to make hal perfect
Lmao I used to work in Boston and I remember driving past this place dozens of times and noting that it was always closed and thinking "huh that's odd considering the extremely high price of running a cafe of all things in the Boston area". Years later this got recommended to me and I'm going nuts.
Dont you mean this gives you paws?
I love this guy and how he reads every typo as it is written, without skipping a damn beat. It's a work of art, I tell you.
Diane Kell-elly
T here
"on the internet on the internet"
Uh oh Diane broke
@@hierarchyofmood1220 That happened a long time ago.
i associate this with strong bad
You'd almost feel bad for the woman if she hadn't completely 100% caused every single one of her own problems.
Did she though? I mean she certainly didn't do much to manage her problems but cause them? This is less of a WingsofRedemption story and more of a Terry A Davis kind of story.
@@fuckakakaka Bullying the people who wanted to help her is the cause of this. Her attidude and unabillitiy to self reflerct and learn. So yes. She did.
@@fuckakakaka Diane reminds me of a cross between Terry Davis and DSP actually, since DSP is FAR worse than Wings.
@@KGH3000 Seems to me she was an alcoholic. Putting that into perspective, it really makes sense why she blew up online all the time. But I'd also say she was the kind of person who couldn't take criticism well.
@@BlackCroft666 It legit seems like she has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and was also an alcoholic. I can't excuse her but it almost seems like she couldn't find a way out of acting the way her brain was wired. A NPD brain railroads one straight into the exact same reactions she had to criticism, where you shrink into yourself and instinctively deflect all blame. It makes me wonder like.... did she even have a chance in the first place?
Apparently recovered? She still there...in the battlefield of her mind.
Forever haunted. Forever hollow.
Forever
meow
meow
purr
Can you say "meow meow purr" in your next video? Lol
Nononono
Meow, period. Meow, period. PURR EXCLAMATION MARK!
I read that in your voice
Weekend Warrior *PURR
Purrrrfect comment
This reminds me a lot of Amy's Baking Company. Volatile people with unwarranted self-importance and a vicious victim complex.
I was thinking that too. Volatile rich people where you don't know where their money comes from, until their husbands get arrested for mafioso crimes.
You just described basically every CEO, middle manager, business owner and politician.
yep, very well stated! 💯 Main difference? Unlike Amy, in this scenario, Diane did not have the benefit of a supportive lackey by her side, serving as a yes-man and just generally enabling her B.S.
@@hanspecans if i had a nickel every time i read a generic comment like this saying every ceo/business owner/politician was bad, i'd literally be as rich as the people described
Sadly, it seems the purpose of Purr Cat cafe was to convince a severely depressed alcoholic that she was a business woman, not a person in total emotional free fall. As crazy as this story is, I'm thankful that apart from that one ill cat, it did not end in tragedy for innocent animals. Also, I feel bad for the person who designed that logo, it is fantastic.
Exactly what I feel about this whole situation. Sucks.
But the cat died
Several. Different. Sexual. Partners.
@@chickencoopowner Yes, but the cat didn't get sick due to the Purr Cafe, it was sick when it arrived, and in my opinion, that is the owner's responsibility. Still sad, though.
even though she was a total bitch and should never ever work with animals, i still feel kinda sorry for her. i mean fuck, she tried to off herself because everything she was working on for years was falling apart.
Landlord: "Dianne, where is my rent?"
Dianne: "We live in a society. Meow. Meow. PURR."
Rise up Meowmers
"There is no rent, hoomun."
"You don't listen, do you? You just ask the same questions every week, Kathleen. "How is your cafe?" "Do you have any cats?" There are never any cats."
@@sirquaffler542 oh ok
I think the least surprising part of this video is that the feline behavioral specialist is in a polyamorous relationship.
We are witnessing a cat lady before it's evolution to its final form.
As someone who lived in Boston at the time, a cat cafe could've been a huge success there. Between the college student population and the fact that Boston is too small for competitors to spring up for niche business, this could've taken off. But with the size of Boston EVERYONE knew Purr's reputation before it opened. I'm surprised they had any customers
@Sundiata Keita last I checked it hasn't stopped being interesting
@Sundiata Keita que?
As a Bostonian, this is very true. Too bad she had to be the stereotypical alcoholic middle-aged cat lady.
@dj neural interface dj neural interface thanks!
I have hopes that a cat cafe will one day open in Boston, run by someone with more professionalism. Diane would never have been a good boss to work for, but I wonder if the business would have at least opened up with decent living conditions for the cats if she had the budget to outsource all the design/construction.
I have empathy for Diane's mental state but have absolutely no sympathy. This was not the story of a person struggling to open a business, it was a story of a person who had every opportunity to open a cafe only to refuse because I guess she just assumed that no one was being serious when they said she needed to fix the basement. Like??? If at any point in the many months of this story she had spent the money to make a good home for the cats she could have opened the cafe, instead of wasting thousands of dollars paying for rented space she couldn't use.
I also got the feeling that she used a sizable chunk of the cafe's funds to fuel her alcoholism
Diane: "People who work in the cat field are crazy cat people"
Also Diane: "I'm a kitty and I will be seeking litigation. Meow. Meow. PURR"
She became the very thing she swore to destroy, a crazy cat lady.
I love your pfp by the way
@@lunardoeseverything5393 la
@@vanguardRailgun924 YOU SWORE TO DESTROY THE CRAZY CAT LADIES NOT JOIN THEM!
@@thishonestgrifter myaster skymeowker😻😻 there are toooo meowny of them 🙀, what are we meowing to do -nyaa 😾?
I love the way Fredrik carefully enunciates ＳＥＶＥＲＡＬ ＤＩＦＦＥＲＥＮＴ ＳＥＸＵＡＬ ＰＡＲＴＮＥＲＳ
Oh shit! Noooooo
same thing for Meow. Meow. PURR! lol. He kept doing it too, gotta appreciate the dedication
@@rin_etoware_2989 absolutely
ahh yes im 666 like.
The way the music kicks in right as he starts saying it too 🤣
I don't know, man, those cats that wrote her announcements vouched for her, maybe there's another side to this story.
Those were clearly phony posts written by dogs. No cat would ever claim dependence on a human; humans are their treasured servants, not their masters! CATS adopt PEOPLE.
oh man you made me chuckle
I think those posts were likely written by Diane herself, simply POSING as her cats. Do you think a cat could really write like that? Seems a bit silly to me, that's all.
@@Fregward Meow meow purr, my lawyers will contact you shortly.
@@Fregward /s
2022 here, and a slight update: Her Linkedin appeared, and she still has Purr Cat Cafe as her primary place of business, open from 2015- present. Also, someone on Facebook claimed in 2020 that they had partnered with Diane in the hopes of being a non-profit status until finding out the shenanigans that was the Boston location. She also claims that Diane is living in Florida, and has (at the time) planned on opening a cat cafe in the state. Not sure what else I can find, but it’s certainly a step in the direction
Those are news for sure.
So Diane was a Florida woman all along, now it all makes sense.
yo, any update on this? seems interesting
@@rasmusirlind8829 Yeah I'm curious too
@@rasmusirlind8829 So nothing I can find, but on her LinkedIn she made a post 4 months ago about a Craigslist ad for “Animal welfare/Small business/Small business/Community- volunteers-“ for the Sarasota, FL area
The harsh tone with which you read "MEOW MEOW PURR" is purrfect.
This plus the stress on all typos. God bless this madlad.
Àyy! I see that pun!
i was about to comment on that; these are the angriest meows and purrs i have ever heard.
We need the guy who does The Honest Movie Trailers to say that.
Especially the intense PURR.
She tried to OD on cat medication? Holy shit! This lady really knows how to stick to a theme!
LOL as she drifted she kept repeating meow, meow, PURR !
Seriously props to her, she was fucking committed
roxy lalonde
She’s hardcore dedicated, I’ll give her that
She sounds like she could be a Batman villain.
"Police were called when one of Diane's volunteers discovered her on the floor of the cafe, surrounded by empty wine bottles and an open container of cat medication"
"Around this time, Diane was able to partner with another cat shelter"
excuse me what
Alzter S
We have no cats, Kathleen
“When did you stop drinking?”
“I never stopped”
Oh that Diane
*Studio audience laughter*
Alzter S
Fuck me that was depressing.
I’m fucking crying lmao
I love how every single attempt made to shame Kat always backfired
It got her the drama and attention she wanted, it didnt backfire at all.
@@mymusicmen13 Well she also wanted to open a successful business, so it by and large still backfired in the long run.
@@mymusicmen13is her life going well right now? You tell me
@@maddieb.4282 she drew it out for as long as she could. In her eyes that's a win. Like how you can play every move right in chess and still lose.
Kinda sounded like she had things to be ashamed of, though.
“I’ve actually transcended through my own enlightenment and seen the seat of god Kathleen, it was empty Kathleen.”
@brmbly *IT HAD NO CATS, K A T H L E E N*
“Feed me the cats, Kathleen. I hunger, K a t h l e e n”
Hilarious
There were no cats there either, Kathleen
Meow. Meow. PURR , Boston
I've taken your god's seat
Now, you shall all worship me
and as of you, Kathleen
With the power I hold, Kathleen
I'll make you my new servant, Kathleen
TWENTY EIGHT SEXUAL PARTNERS, KATHLEEN
Diane: “We have no cats, also you’re fired.”
Kathleen: “Alright, just send my last cheque.”
Diane: “It’s just a prank bro.”
Kathleen: “...”
Diane: “I r e q u i r e c a t s K a t h l e e n”
I R E Q U I R E C A T S N O M O R E T H A N 1 0
M E O W M E O W P U R R K A T H L E E N
S E V E R A L D I F F E R E N T S E X U A L. P A R T N E R S K A T H L E E N
TableWrens this thread is cracking me up xD
W E H A V E N O C A T S , K A T H L E E N
This is all just bullying, Fredrik Knudsen isn't even registered in the state of Massachuessettes. Would you trust a youtube channel that isn't even registered in that state of Massachuessettes? My mom doesn't trust youtube channels that aren't registered in the state of Massachuessettes.
---- Gussie, the Cat.
MEOW. MEOW. PURR.
"Not gonna lie they had us on the first half"
Underrated comment
I hope she didn't type out "Massachuessettes" every time she wrote it, that would be a pain.
I hate your name
I thought this was a fake but the signature meow meow purr gives it credibility
"Slandering my personal C A R A C A T E R" Fred's dead serious delivery of that typo fucking sent me.
Bro That caught me off guard and I was starting laughing my ass off. Had to rewatch it a few times.
it didn't even open yet.
I didn't know you could spawn kill a company.
This was like getting killed on the chargen screen.
...Holy shit, you're right.
this comment is the real mvp
"Kat, stop spawncamping the cafe... It's rude..."
It was a stillborn business that lasted longer than it should have.
Pimples? *Zero.*
Blackheads? *Zero.*
Cats, Kathleen? *Zero.*
Hotel? Trivago.
Meow, meow? *Purr*
WE HAVE NO CATS, KATHLEEN
For everything else there's MasterCard.
Bullshit counter? *Yes,Kathleen*
"She was found in the basement surrounded by wine bottles and opened bottles of cat medication."
Well, we've all been there.
But usually we aren't _trying_ to kill ourselves...
/s
So I was sitting there; Cat medication and wine on my titties
@@Nickman826 if it's not barbeque sauce it's not normal
hentropy nope
@@connorc6293 its a joke.
Happy to say, sometime last year this Location came under much more sane management, and is now a legitimate Pet Shelter.
"slandering my personal characater"
I honestly can't tell if that's a typo
To be quite frank, this whole debacle was on this path just for that pun
What's the pun? "Caricature"?
Probably a freudian slip
@@typo691 charaCATer
@@bloodyoil5660 Ahhhh thanks
"There are no cats, Kathleen."
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se."
"There's nobody that can outpizza the Hut"
Kathleen has invited you to Lake Laogai.
@@gustavogodoy9626 Sabaro pizza and big daddy’s pizza: we did that
There's no "we" in "food"
“We were never at war with Eurasia.” “ 2+2=5, Winston.”
This is the Cats film that we should have gotten in cinema this year.
I'd kill for a movie based around this.
When you imagine this story, with the people involved covered in the Cats film CGI, it actually works!
Winner
😂😂😂 that's so funny! ❤
With Dwyane Johnson playing Kathleen and a big final shootout in the end!
I feel like Diane is one of those people that really likes the idea of having a pet but isn’t actually capable of taking care of one for real
"feel like"
honey, she is.
I can relate, also being one of "those people," but with one major difference: I am self-aware about this, so I make the choice not to have a pet 👍
@@b.lonewolf417 My personal anxiety over whether I would be a responsible pet owner is exactly why I do not have any pets, not even one as independent as a cat.
"you enjoy having multiple sexual partners."
>jazz music gets louder
papermoon >jazz music stops
@@Scorch428 This thread went almost a week without needing your incel comment, thanks.
The acceptance of polyamory has reached pretty disturbing levels if you get called an incel for disapproving of it. Polyamory is bad. A lot of times it's an excuse for people to cheat because they aren't willing to commit to their partner, and these relationships are often manipulative in nature. Chances are, your parents don't approve of polyamory. Are they incels?
Mumgay There’s literally no proof that poly relationships are inherently bad. Are some of them toxic? Yes, but so are monogamic ones. I would myself never be in one because it’s not for me, but it can be for others. And why not wanting to be committed is a bad thing exactly? As long as people consent it sabe fine. And no, my parents don’t think it’s wrong, humans are not naturally monogamous.
@@w7bUxhwRYUo8Lv Scorch just piped in shitting on someone they don't even know because of one small detail they learned about them in a youtube video. Maybe people need to stop being assholes to strangers first.
The real crime here is the fact that Diane was never arrested for what could be a laundry list of animal and employee abuse.
Sometimes the justice system fails.
>sometimes
@@zebius4157 > >sometimes
yeah, sure.
I'm amazed that she was able to get away with this stuff for this long. Money can really take you places, huh.
@@AB-py6jl im shocked all these organizations wanted to work with her. A quick google search or her name or her business should have set off some alarms
Boston: shuts down Purr
Diane: We live in a society
Wine aunts rise up
I used to think my cafe was a meow meow
Now I realize, it s a PURR
Knightrem 10 WINE AUNTS RISE UP!!!
@@ArsonRaboot holy shit this thread LMFAOOOO
Diane: do you know how i got this scares?
Evryone: no ?
Diane: cat scratches...
Kat: but you said we had no cat
Diane: F€%@ off
I miss this channel. I hope all is well with this guy and he’s just happily moved on to the next cool project.
yeah he's good he's currently working on a 6hr down the rabbit hole so it's taking All of his time ! Excited for it when it comes out.
His next video is (by Fredrik's standards) almost done. It's a giant deep dive of EVE Online.
@@JillLulamoon Oh, THAT clusterfuck of a game? I wish him luck...he's got plenty of material to work with.
He should do shorter videos.
he should do whatever he wants actually
"I love cats"
*barely able to take care of cats and refuses help*
Cat Fight...?
Sounds like an animal hoarder.
She loves the idea of them. That's likely what she meant.
shut up noob lol
She loves cats like a sociopath loves victims.
Meow. Meow. PURR
Nexpo epic
meow meow PURRRRR
six replies?
@@pwnrz8684 X 4 replies and 94 likes?
Would love to see a Down the Rabbit Hole/Nexpo collab.
"One of Diane's volunteers discovered her on the floor of the cafe, surrounded by empty wine bottles"
"...And an open container of cat medication."
...what percentage of the cat-roleplaying facebook posts were posted while on cat meds?
Probably 75%
@Tw1st3dG4m3r Good answer!
she probably thought the cat pills were pills that turned you into a cat
I've heard of the drug "meow" but this is a whole new level. Too bad the name's already taken.
And she was trying to shame a former employee for pet play. Maybe Kat just wasn't extreme enough for her.
Saying "I'm a cat enthusiast" and "I'm a smart businesswoman" in the same context is like saying "I'm a cutthroat banker" and "I work in a kindergarten".
I don't know what made her think this statement would garner sympathy for herself.
"Hey, Diana lets her cats rot away in a dirty, stone-cold and stone-hard basement."
"I'm a smart businesswoman, you know?"
Yeah, I can see that. Smartly saved up on the expenses you could've put into giving those rescues a home.
*posts an ex employees fetish gear*
C'mon guys we aren't even open yet
So much negativity
Loses many employees due to extreme mismanagement.
Come on guys we arnt even open yet.
*Posts ex-employee's fetish gear*
"We don't kink shame here lads."
We have no employees,Kathleen
Dawg I wanna see that fetish gear ngl
"It's over, Kathleen. I've already killed god. He's dead, Kathleen. It's over."
WE HAVE NO GOD KATHLEEN
God is dead, and we have killed him. We've killed him Kathleen.
The birth of tragedy
fuck this made me laugh out loud
Mr. Moesby How have you been sense Zach and Cody have left?
S E V E R A L
D I F F E R E N T
S E X U A L
P A R T N E R S
1000/10, Diane.
The musical tone shift for this line is hilarious too
I read that last line as “Panthers” and things suddenly got very weird.
@@JFJD Sexual panthers sounds like a terrifying way to die.
@@JFJD If I was in a shop and saw an album called "Sexual Panthers" I'd buy it in a fuckin heartbeat
Mark Mayonnaise ha. Sexual cougars would be better! Older women on the prowl and on the cover
This is such a depressingly human tale of the dreams of an aspiring entrepreneur and the ignorance of what it takes to make it come true.
good insightful comment.. the funny comments are also very enjoyable but i do think people should think about this story beyond this video. probably something to be learned here for everyone
WHY DO THESE THINGS ALWAYS START OUT SOMEWHAT HUMOROUS AND THEN END UP EXTREMELY DEPRESSING
That's getting into the dark side of all of this.
One reason I guess is that social media is really destructive for types like this. For 1 they all can't seem to tell jokes/trolls from sincere comments.
There's also plenty of people who follow people like her just to see them crash and burn. Finding out every single detail about them in the process. This would even drive a lot of stable people into paranoia.
I think they are partly responsible.
"She posted about a former employee's sex life on the company's public page."
HOLY SHIT WHAT?! XDDD
"She was so negligent she let a cat die."
Ooohh......oohhhhhh... .__.
You think its funny because you assume people will come to their senses. Then it just keeps going and going and going and going and going and going.....
That's the scary thing of going deeper down the proverbial rabbit hole. It just gets darker and darker
Yeah, the vid starts off quite amusing. But by minute 40 it's just...almost unbearably depressing. I no longer enjoy watching this woman dig her own grave.
Not to disparage the vid itself, which is pretty brilliant. As always.
>cats
>wine
>bitter middle aged woman
>boston
Checks out.
T R penis
CWBB
*Bwaaastn'*
Obvious to anyone not afflicted with a high measure of autism, any "cool wine aunt" will have earned a gnarled and gruesome snatch so scarified and prolapsed that her drooping leathered labia appear as the glistening russet or tawny or ruddy colored heads of turtles or large-lipped freshwater fish or like the strange proboscis of an eyeless subterranean mammal adapted to gulping silt or high-sand ratio marsh mud in either its search for tiny arthopod-derived calories or else burrowing some sort of nesting cavern to rest its cock-weary scabbard flapped face. Make no mistake, any cool wine aunt has been dicked-down and split apart and dermatologically pulverized open by long prying motions from exceptionally lengthy and pharmaceutically enhanced erections, slickly and snappily pistoning in and out of her roastie snapper the same as her dong-beaten brapper, their veiny and thick tumescences disappearing into the given cool wine aunt with the metronomic cadence born solely of great cardio-pulmonary conditioning, slap, slap, slap, pummeling cunt and cloaca with great steady vigors. Simultaneous penetrations, public perversions, emictions and eliminations upon the sweaty faces of paying wide-mouthed "clients," the cool wine aunt acquires worldly knowledge of all high and low slut stuff, cruising correctional facilities' public parking lots for recently incarcerated males receptive to receiving the rippling petals of her gaping beef flower as a welcome-back-to-society gift, or, failing that, then descending into chemsex-fueled benders of nut butter-aided beastiality, emptying kennels of yet-tainted pup after predictable pup, using, abusing then hurling the not long ago unclean creatures tumbling tail over snout over the sides of bridges, overpasses, there relinquishing to nature the canine abominations that had so scandalously tasted the cool wine aunt's vaginal victuals, lapping and schlopping the high calorie treat all the while the writhing cool wine aunt's brapper and snapper are each firing their climactic flatus like tolling bells, thanking the pup, urging the pup on, loosing stools at climax as every women aches to do during their deepest orgasmic blisses, no skittish boyfriends to curtail their pleasure, the pup even gobbles up their kegel-launched logs and goes back to riveting clit work.
Gives a whole new meaning to cat fight
Cafe gets shut down:
Diane: we live in a society
selena Kyle origin story
She handled things pretty bad, but people did just crowd around a struggling business owner just to laugh at her. I mean if that's not shitty I don't know what is
@@fuckakakaka she was a struggling business owner because she couldve been no other kind of business owner. the woman was quite simply too toxic to work in any sort of endeavor even resembling a business. and in the first place, calling her a business owner is kind of an overstatement, considering that the business was never really in business to begin with
and as if to compensate for that huge overstatement, u give us a massive understatement in the form of "pretty bad"
"pretty bad?" the woman blew up like hiroshima, it was unbelievable
fuckakakaka she brought 100% of that on herself. You can’t open something like a shelter for animals however you want just because you that’s the way you want it and justify it because its “helping animals”. Standards need to be set for the welfare of the animals or many of them will end up in the care of unqualified people.
Also, anybody who can be seen arguing with people over Facebook while pretending to be a cat and reading lines written by that person that are all about how great that person is deserves unlimited shit
Cool wine aunts RISE UP
God it physically hurts me when she tries to post from a cat's perspective, and a few lines later completely forgets that she is and speaks from her own perspective.
She was blackout drunk when writing those I’m sure
The "Dobby is free" meme in response to Chandler quitting was so funny & unexpected lmao
Plot twist: Diane was drinking Austrian wine, vintage 1985, poisoned with glycol.
Ahhh! I see what you did there!
DTRH Universe Easter egg!
The Fredrik Knudsen cinematic universe
@@boot965 Ahh, yes, the FKCU, which is disappointingly close to FUCK
Yeah, she saw a Chris Chan video after received insults from Wings of Redemption and was to read Empress Theressa.
And she was suffering a deppresion because had paid a ship in Star Citizen. c:
Her wording is... Odd. The way she structures her sentences just. Irks me.
Квелд, I think this is because she doesn’t vary her sentence lengths and she frequently repeats words.
Boomer writing + mental illness
given that she's sort of a alcoholic, she probably wrote those posts while under the influence
I think it’s her age. She probably can’t type fast and takes pauses when trying to get her point across.
She really reminds me of my literature teacher. Teach is not nearly as bad as Diane, but she has her head up in the clouds and a lot of time talks/writes in a very weird manner that makes me real confused.
Ironically, the space where Purr once was is now a cat shelter...
Well, hopefully they have better luck than what came before.
Strangely poetic
Diane: Falsely claimed that BFF wasn't registered in Boston, so she refused to partner with them
Also Diane: Partnered with FVR, an unregistered shelter
The fact that she flatly lied in the first instance thinking no one would know, then her partnering with an unlicensed group, leads me to believe that she doesn’t know much about the internet past Facebook. Anyone even mildly aware of how the internet works know that government agencies routinely have license lookup features.
@@AlcoholicBoredom Yeah, and stuff like Google just makes it much easier to look that kind of stuff up nowadays. Even kindergarten students would know that.
This woman was either totally clueless or in complete denial about the situation. Either way, she had no chance of coming through unscathed.
Also claiming both normative and provably true statements are libel while herself knowingly committing libel
It is very interesting that even before the video explained that she is an alcoholic i kind of knew. I have a distant family member (female) who is an alcoholic. And the few times i had to speak with her she made eerily simmilar sentences often repeating the exact same things she said just a moment before a bit reworded. Just like Diane . Another family member of mine explained to me that over use alcohol damages brain cells and stops it from remembering new events. And that hard alcoholics can only remember the bad things because sadness and anger are stronger emotions than happiness and easier memory to retain while strongly influenced. So basically Diane didn't even understand the things happening around her. She only understood that people spoke agaisnt her idea and that equals to a personal attack thus remembering it. But not "mundane" things like what a cat truly needs nor that the original concerns was not even about her.
It is sad to see someone degrade so much. Alcohol is hell of a poison. But to be honest i happy no cats have had to endure her cafe for long.
that does explain a lot
even more so on her out burst
My grandpa was an alcoholic, he committed suicide before I had a consciousness so I don’t remember him but according to my dad he experienced the same things you’re describing. When I ask my dad “why did he want to die” he just answered “he was an alcoholic” and I think now I finally get the reason why he opted out of this world. Sorry this is unrelated and kinda depressing.
Yeah, I was married to a severe alcholoic for 3 years. (Severe as in he drank a 1/5 a day just to maintain and when he wasnt out to get drunk drunk. Going a single day without any alcohol and he was sicker than a dog. Sweating, shakes, non stop panic attacks and extreme anxiety. It was BAD!) And yes, alcohol does cause brain damage when consumed in excess. But honestly, in all the alcoholic support groups and rehab Drs, therapists, groups, etc. I have never heard, or seen, anything about alcoholics being unable to process or remember any positive, happy, or every day mundane memories. I've had my issues with drinking a couple differwnt times, (like drinking almost daily for a year or two.) and i never personally experienced it.
I dont think that it's harder to process or remember happy memories. But there is some similar belief to that in psychology. For anybody, it takes about 10 positive or happy memories to equal the weight or impact of 1 negative, or bad, memory. But thats not really exact, as all psychology is, is theoretical, really.
All in all, I think you are mostly correct, in that she was an alcoholic, and that left a seriously heavy and negative impact on Purr Cat Cafe and what she wanted to achieve. It's too bad, really. Its quote possible that it could habe been an amazingly successful venture, had she been a sober peraon of sound mind.
Alcohol can be a great additive to relaxation and fun. But it can also turn into the most efficient weapon one can use against themselves, to destroy their livelihood, their reputation, their relationships, and ultimately, their lives. (As in in the most complete way, killing them.) Thats why its recommended to drink responsibly. Its not only meant to pertain to the one night of drinking, but in the overall way one uses or consumes it and any habits associated with it.
In short, she was probably already troubled before the alcohol. It only worsened with it.
I still can't get over the raw, visceral horror of hearing Fredrik's "Meow. Meow. PURRR.", every single time it catches me off-guard and sends chills down my spine like I'm hearing some long-forgotten warcry
It just makes me laugh now
MEOW MEOW PURR
@@notsojharedtroll23 screams
did you catch the one at the very end of the video, that one made my skin crawl
Sound more ominous if you read it like: Meow, meow. Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
I'll never get tired of rewatching this.
I didn't even know we had even a plan of a cat cafe in Boston until the news of it going under so at first I was sad I never got to go but all of this definitely makes me less sad. Though any cats that have ever been in her care have my greatest sympathies 😢
"Gussie here, I represent Diane Kelly in court"
😂😂😂
LOL
LMAO
TV show idea: Gussie the Kingpin: Criminal court
This comment is art
"What say you in your client defense?"
"Quote: 《Meow. Meow. PURR.》End quote."
The best part of this video was Fredrik repeating that catchfrase everytime.
I love how much passion and rage was used behind PURR!
The Mysterious Mista meow
meow
*purr*
I've committed several different war crimes
Moew. Moew. PURR!!
Read that in Dan Carlin's voice
7 stages of Dianne:
Denial
Denial
Denial
Denial
Denial
Denial
Denial
diannial
@@bit_ronic dian anal😳
Blaming others
Diann- damn, someone beat me to it
@@dirtydan9785 I thought stage 7 was Meow Meow PURR
i love the idea of a cat walking into an attorney's office and trying to file for harrassment without being able to speak
its like a filmcow bit
Damn it now I wanna see that as an actual Filmcow video
"I'm not a cat"