Thieves, the lot of them

A friend alerted me to this surely fake but popular video making the rounds - it shows a young woman who (supposedly) becomes a bit overemotional while recording an introductory video for online dating site eHarmony. Turns out, she really REALLY likes cats. Especially cats in a basket and cats wearing bowties. And cats on rainbows.

So I wanted to send my friend a copy of this picture I created a few years ago by Photoshopping a rainbow coming out of a kitten's ass.
Original blog post here.

Yes, it's a really bad Photoshop job. With a background in editorial photography, I'm afraid my limited Photoshop abilities tend to be in the area of making an image look real, not making an image up. Plus I wanted extra cheese. I mean... it's a kitten with a rainbow coming out of its ass.

I started looking back through the blog to find it but couldn't lay my paws on it quickly, so I thought hell, I'll just do a Google image search for "kitten rainbow." That'll surely get me to my photo fast.

And sure enough, I found my photo. But I didn't only find it on my blog. Someone stole my rainbow kitten.

This blogger at least gave my stolen photo some decent play, at the top of the post:


This one wasted a good image (ahem) by putting it at the bottom of the post:


Points for creativity - this band called "Rainbow Kitten" stole the image for their Myspace page, but at least they really fucked up the colors so it's not really a rainbow anymore. Makes me wonder about their approach to creating music. As in "steal something cheesy and bad, then make it worse."

Also, Myspace? Really? Is it 2004?