As of 2014, YouTube had on its site around 2 million cat videos, garnering in total some 25 billion views — so it’s a given that most everyone with access to the internet has, at one time or another, watched a video of cats doing what cats do.
“It’s a good escape from people’s day to day, just the onslaught of the bad news that we receive in our lives each day,” said Eric Dorris, the owner of the website CatVideos.com, which compiles its own library of feline frolicking. “Cat videos are a way to unplug for a moment.