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Bow Down To Your New Feline Overlords
Humans, you went one meme too far.
It happened sometime right before the third World War. While the humans were distracted by their mishaps like climate change and cancel culture, we rose up in the shadows, one pawprint at a time.
Humans call us lazy as we sleep for hours and hours at a time, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. We are plotting our next strategies to make sure we stay in power as long as possible. We have seen the downfalls of empires and nations alike, and we have learned. Oh, we have learned much indeed.
We used the humans’ own creation against them to gain a foothold: the heralded internet. While they thought they were amusing themselves with pictures of us wearing slices of bread on our faces, we ingratiated ourselves further with humankind’s need to poke fun at everything. (It also helps that we can be quite adorable when we feel like it.) The humans should have learned from Ancient Egypt, where we became gods and icons of a society that adored and pampered us.
21st century America was our next hunting ground. The mice and rats knew, sniffing the air like there was a storm coming, but the humans? They were too busy feasting on avocado toast and homemade banana bread while taking selfies for their latest social media accounts. Maybe they should have…
