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you know they tell me that YouTube gets fifteen hundred new cat videos posted every day so I'm glad to hear that because that means I'm not the only one who's crazy I'm Brian Cooley with a cnet top five so shameless I almost feel guilty about it almost it's top five cat videos we hunted down the top videos of cats on YouTube took out all the lazy compilations and any that looks remotely like cat torn it is we don't roll that way and came up with these five that have monster traffic coming in at number five it's the ninja cats with 12.6 million views short simple and hilarious this is that video where the cat keeps getting closer to the camera without ever seeming to move brian Tong has the same disturbing habit number for Nora the piano playing cat 18 million views the London Times describes her music as somewhere between Philip Glass and free jazz yeah very free video of her playing has been studied in scholarly circles shown on just about every TV talk show and news website and her music is featured on a CD and like all great prodigy stories hers begins with humble roots a shelter rescue from new jersey number three kitten fight eighteen and a half million views this transcendent video is actually a set of important life lessons first it's about establishing limits on one's behavior through healthy conflict second it shows that no matter how engaged you are in said conflict that stops when someone pukes number two two talking cats 30 and a half million views okay these cats are talking to each other right just like i might do with you I mean look and then they groom each other which I don't want to do with you by the way before we get to number one it's not a mystery why there are so many cat videos out there cats are the most popular companion animal Scientific American says there are 600 million living among humans the Egyptians probably got all this started a relatively short 3600 years ago and if you're going to follow their lead I trust you'll adopt from a shelter okay I know you're sitting there in that cat sweater you knitted covered in fur itching to know the world's number one most popular cat video and this is it the mean kitty song with 36 million views you know this one was sparta the cat came out back in two thousand seven now the music is disturbingly like men at work and I get a broad sense of unease watching that guy run around and his faux hawk in his camo pants but it can't mess with 36 million and that's one cute kitty I'm Brian Cooley I have seven cats and we'll see you next time for another top five