Decades after Dagwood originally chased those tiny white balls across a table, television audiences were still watching her do it, and that's the part that feels impurrtant. We sometimes talk about internet-famous cats like they are a strange invention of the social media era, but hoomans have always been desperate to watch somebody else's cat do something ridiculous. The technology advanced, but the basic hooman instinct of “Everyone come look at this cat right now!” absolutely did not.
Maybe that's why cats have remained such purrfect media stars. They turn ordinary domestic life into tiny purrformances without even knowing there is an audience! Also, most of them are just fluffy and derpy, and that definitely helps.
There is something wonderfully ordinary about Dagwood. She did not need Hollywood training, a pedigree, or some grand heroic story. She was famous because she did what cats do best: bugging her owner until he let her do what she wanted. She had content creation built into her DNA before any of us had wifi, but to her, she just called it knocking things across a table.
Call it an educated guess, but I would wager she loved pushing things off tables as well.
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