Unfortunately, in this “official version” of Cat Facts, the app has to remain legally compliant, so it includes the way to unsubscribe in the first message. “After rewriting it a few times and making it look a little prettier, I figured it could be something that other people on the internet might enjoy,” he says. Later, after a few mobile development internships, Venn realized how poorly the app was built so he decided to revisit it.
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It seemed like a fun idea that would leverage a bunch of sweet technologies that I wasn’t too familiar with - like SMS APIs, Android design standards, automation,” he explains. “I never had any intention of actually releasing it to the App Store and did it mostly to get better as a developer. Venn, a web developer by background, says he began building the app two years ago as a way to teach himself Android development.
(Because surely by now there’s an entirely new crop of mobile tweens who have yet to encounter the Cat Facts meme – or text trolling in general.)Ĭat Facts creator Kyle Venn says he’s not the original Reddit user “frackyou,” and didn’t reach out to him before creating this because that user was no longer active, and also, because it seems by the comments on the original post that “frackyou” actually got the idea from another Redditor who liked that his idea was being used. Recently, this classic prank has re-emerged as a mobile app you can use to send Cat Facts to your friends. Welcome to Cat Facts! Did you know that the first cat show was held in 1871 at the Crystal Palace in London? Mee-wow! In the meantime, Cat Facts like this stream in:
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In a series of screenshots, you can see the prank’s victim go from confused to frustrated to downright angry as he can’t seem to figure out how to get the texts to stop, despite following the prompts to unsubscribe, sometimes involving typing in long strings of numbers.
According to the original poster, his little cousin had shared his new phone number on Facebook, and was soon the recipient of unwanted texts which purported to be from some automated service called “Cat Facts,” but were really from his older cousin. In case you somehow missed it, Cat Facts refers to this prank, posted here on Reddit a couple of years ago. What do you get when you combine cats and epic-level trolling? Only one of the most popular Reddit posts of all time: the hilarious “Cat Facts” prank from Reddit user “frackyou” is the eighth-most popular post on Reddit, and now it’s a mobile app you can use to automate cat facts-style pranking on your unsuspecting friends.
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