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"Every time you masturbate… God kills a kitten"
was a headline of an image created by a member of the website Fark.com
in 2002.[1]
The image is of a kitten
(subsequently referred to as "Cliché Kitty") being chased by two Domos, and has the
tagline "Please, think of the kittens."
According to a New York Times
Magazine article on Domo-kun, "any major exhibition on the
history of clowning around on the Internet would have to include
[this image]".[2] An
article from ICv2 stated "this phony PSA is quite out of
character with Domo's image in Japan."[3]
The phrase originally appeared as the headline "Fact: Every Time
You Masturbate, God Kills a Kitten. How Many
More Have to Die?" with a kitten photo on the cover of The Gonzo, a satirical
publication produced by students at Georgetown University, in
1996.[4]
Cultural
references
In 2003, actor Dudley Sutton found inspiration from the
Internet "where apparently people say that every time you
masturbate God kills a kitten."[5]
The XXXchurch used the retouched kitten image
in an e-mail campaign.[6] Jay
Porter was quoted as stating that "'God kills a kitten every time
you masturbate' is not an advisable message to direct at children,"
after the Michigan church
used the slogan during an anti-pornography
campaign in 2005.[7] The
phrase also inspired the name of a sex club called Killing
Kittens.[8]
A picture created in response to this inverted the positions of
kitten and Domo-kun, reading "Every time you send that fucking
picture... God kills a Domo-kun"[9].
The phrase sometimes is varied. For example, in 2003, The Daily
Show correspondent Samantha Bee maintained a screensaver that showed
kittens chased by vengeful ninjas, and the cut line, "Every time
you masturbate, a ninja chops the head off a kitten."[10]
Another variation is also quoted by Neon Genesis Evangelion fans,
in a reference to events in the manga: Every time you masturbate,
Kaworu kills a kitten. This is based on the fact that in the manga,
Shinji Ikari
masturbates and Kaworu Nagisa kills a kitten, saying
"Shinji masturbated today." [11]
See also
References
- ^ Fark Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ): Farkisms, Fark.com
- ^
Hello, Kitschy, The New York Times
Magazine, July 22, 2007
- ^ "Nickelodeon Gets
Anime-Mated." ICv2. May 4, 2006. Retrieved on February
5, 2009.
- ^
"The Gonzo #10". http://www.shlomiraz.com/Site/The_Gonzo/Pages/Issue_10.html#0.
- ^ "Edinburgh Festival 2003:
Thomas Quinn — Pest at the fest", Daily Mirror page 22, August 4,
2003
- ^
Mitzi Szereto (2005). The World's Best Sex
Writing 2005. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 1560257725. http://books.google.com/books?id=fHFuD3C8IIAC&pg=PA168&dq=masturbate+kitten&as_brr=0&ei=8zvmRsjGNZa2pwLoyrm5Aw&sig=yfTUW1vPupP4ZrzxxSHj9fSYWgc.
- ^ Mich. Church Slammed for 'Porn
Weekend', Fox News, April 1, 2005
- ^
John Cameron Mitchell: Let's
talk dirty The Independent on Sunday, section
ABC, page 6, November 26, 2006
- ^
Cory Doctorow: Every time you
forward that picture, God kills a Domo-Kun Boing Boing, March
16, 2002
- ^
Bee dazzled: "It was very crazy and unexpected" to be whisked from
Toronto to New York to make news that amuses, The Daily
Show’s Canadian component tells Simon Houpt", The Globe and
Mail, page R3, November 24, 2003
- ^ The Geektionary A-G, Eva
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