If you thought a live-action remake of The Lion King was unnecessary, just wait until you see the trailer for the 1980s-musical-turned-1998-movie, CATS. Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Judi Dench, Rebel Wilson, James Cordon, Idris Elba, Jason Derulo, Ian McKellen, and more make appearances in the film's first trailer and it's safe to say that the cat-sized people with digital fur look like an absolute nightmare.
Soon after the trailer's release, the internet promptly began roasting the animation over an open fire.
\u201cI don't know what I expected from CATS' "digital fur technology" but the short answer is NOT this. \n\nMy brain has melted. My eyes are bleeding. There is no god.\u201d— Kristy Puchko (@Kristy Puchko) 1563484471
\u201cI don't know why you're all freaking out over miniature yet huge cats with human celebrity faces and sexy breasts performing a demented dream ballet for kids.\u201d— Louis Virtel (@Louis Virtel) 1563486954
\u201cThe cats movie trailer looks like if somebody who just learned what a fursona is tried to direct The Polar Express\u201d— nat \u201ccops break laws to terrorize/intimidate\u201d puff (@nat \u201ccops break laws to terrorize/intimidate\u201d puff) 1563496935
\u201ctherapist: taylor swift as a cgi cat isn\u2019t real, she can\u2019t hurt you\n\ntaylor as a cgi cat:\u201d— matt (@matt) 1563487280
\u201cit has been one full hour since I saw the CATS (2019) trailer and this is the image that will haunt me\u201d— Christina Grace (@Christina Grace) 1563489445
\u201cI put the song from Us onto the Cats trailer and I think it fits better.\u201d— Ian Abramson (@Ian Abramson) 1563487853
Comedian Jaboukie Young-White took it a step further. He actually changed his username and avatar to CATS, which looked rather convincing with his blue checkmark, then tweeted this:
\u201cThe cats in Cats (2019) will have realistic spiked penises\u201d— jaboukie (@jaboukie) 1563486665
The joke racked up over 10,000 retweets before Young-White's account was promptly suspended. The outcry came far and loud:
\u201cRIP Jaboukie for trying to keep it real \ud83d\ude02\u201d— Mrs. McG (@Mrs. McG) 1563497366
\u201c#FreeJaboukie\u201d— Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18) 1563499892
\u201cme kim kardashian-west\n \ud83e\udd1d\n freeing \n jaboukie\u201d— hunter harris (@hunter harris) 1563505933
None— Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18 (@Yashar Ali \ud83d\udc18) 1563499892
Thankfully, the cat gods restored Young-White's account this morning, with his username and profile image reverted:
\u201chttps://t.co/tRdPbvnvfF\u201d— jaboukie (@jaboukie) 1563553139
\u201cthank every last one of you who tweeted... i wouldn\u2019t have been freed without you. they can try to hide the truth but the fact remains:\u201d— jaboukie (@jaboukie) 1563553851
Will you be watching the CATS movie?
