The meme dates to 2021 and ties into anime, with users spelling out a character named Yui from the Japanese show “K-On!,” as the keys are next to one another. It hit the mainstream last week.

Soon, Keyboard Cat was a world-wide hit — around the globe, internet surfers could hardly boot up without Fatso’s stiff little arms banging away at the keys. Not that she was around to enjoy it.

The genius of Keyboard Cat is that it’s hitting a sweet spot: Millennials who remember the original meme and Gen-Z who love a good ironic throwback. It’s smart branding.

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Meme emerged before this year. This isn't the first-time users have been tasked with looking between certain letters on the keyboard to try and understand the joke, with Business Insider reporting ...

The trend, which urges users to "look between" certain letters on your keyboard, apparently originated with a post on 4chan in May 2021 according to a submission to Know Your Meme.

This time around, we’re throwing multiple states of being—from confusion to understanding, from annoyance to full-fledged exhaustion—at the whole Look Between X and Y on Your Keyboard thing.

This time around, we’re throwing multiple states of being—from confusion to understanding, from annoyance to full-fledged exhaustion—at the whole Look Between X and Y on Your Keyboard thing.