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Q: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- If you get a warm, fuzzy feeling after watching cute cat videos online, the effect may be more profound than you think. 
  
 The Internet phenomenon of watching cat videos, from Lil Bub to Grumpy Cat, does more than simply entertain; it boosts viewers' energy and positive emotions and decreases negative feelings, according to a new study by an Indiana University Media School researcher. 
  
 The study, by assistant professor Jessica Gall Myrick, surveyed almost 7,000 people about their viewing of cat videos and how it affects their moods. It was published in the latest issue of Computers in Human Behavior. Lil Bub's owner, Mike Bridavsky, who lives in Bloomington, helped distribute the survey via social media. 
  
 "Some people may think watching online cat videos isn't a serious enough topic for academic research, but the fact is that it's one of the most popular uses of the Internet today," Myrick said. "If we want to better understand the effects the Internet may have on us as individuals and on society, then researchers can't ignore Internet cats anymore. 
  
 "We all have watched a cat video online, but there is really little empirical work done on why so many of us do this, or what effects it might have on us," added Myrick, who owns a pug but no cats. "As a media researcher and online cat video viewer, I felt compelled to gather some data about this pop culture phenomenon." 
  
 Internet data show there were more than 2 million cat videos posted on YouTube in 2014, with almost 26 billion views. Cat videos had more views per video than any other category of YouTube content. 
  
 In Myrick's study, the most popular sites for viewing cat videos were Facebook, YouTube, Buzzfeed and I Can Has Cheezburger. 
  
 Among the possible effects Myrick hoped to explore: Does viewing cat videos online have the same kind of positive impact as pet therapy? And do some viewers actually feel worse after watching cat videos because they feel guilty for putting off tasks they need to tackle? 
  
 Of the participants in the study, about 36 percent described themselves as a "cat person," while about 60 percent said they liked both cats and dogs. 
  
 Participants in Myrick's study reported: 
  
 They were more energetic and felt more positive after watching cat-related online media than before. 
  
 They had fewer negative emotions, such as anxiety, annoyance and sadness, after watching cat-related online media than before. 
  
 They often view Internet cats at work or during studying. 
  
 The pleasure they got from watching cat videos outweighed any guilt they felt about procrastinating. 
  
 Cat owners and people with certain personality traits, such as agreeableness and shyness, were more likely to watch cat videos. 
  
 About 25 percent of the cat videos they watched were ones they sought out; the rest were ones they happened upon. 
  
 They were familiar with many so-called "celebrity cats," such as Nala Cat and Henri, Le Chat Noir. 
  
 Overall, the response to watching cat videos was largely positive. 
  
 "Even if they are watching cat videos on YouTube to procrastinate or while they should be working, the emotional pay-off may actually help people take on tough tasks afterward," Myrick said. 
  
 The results also suggest that future work could explore how online cat videos might be used as a form of low-cost pet therapy, she said. 
  
 For each participant who took the survey, Myrick donated 10 cents to Lil Bub's foundation, raising almost $700. The foundation, Lil Bub's Big Fund for the ASPCA, has raised more than $100,000 for needy animals. 
  
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 Lil Bub, arguably the Internet’s best cat. (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images) 
  
 It’s 2 p.m. You’re tired, disgruntled and desk-bound. Casting about for something — anything! — to carry you to 5, you contemplate a coffee or an office walk-around. 
  
 But not so fast, dear office drone, because there’s a guaranteed mood-lifter you can indulge in at your desk. Just head on over to YouTube, place your cursor in the search box, and type … “cat.” 
  
 This is, at least, my personal takeaway from a new study in a forthcoming issue of the journal Computers in Human Behavior, on what author Jessica Gall Myrick calls the “understudied” field of “online cat media.” 
  
 [From Grumpy Cat to Lil Bub, Internet cats are serious business] 
  
 “Consumption of online cat-related media deserves empirical attention,” Myrick writes, “because, as the news accounts suggest, Internet users spend a significant amount of time consuming cat-related media, some of that while they are supposed to be doing other tasks like working or studying.” 
  
 … Yep, been there. 
  
 For this paper, Myrick — an assistant professor at Indiana University and a researcher into media’s emotional effects — recruited 7,000 people for a lengthy online questionnaire about when, where and why they watch cat videos. 
  
 On average, her respondents watched cat videos two to three times a week, frequently on sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Buzzfeed. They tended to chance upon the videos in their social feeds, rather than seek them out specifically. They were more likely to watch and like cat videos if they owned, or had ever owned, a cat; if they were shy; or if, predictably, they spent lots of time online. 
  
 No matter the personal variables, however, people reported feeling more energetic, more happy and less stressed after watching a video of a cat — even when they felt guilty about it because they were supposed to be doing something else. 
  
 “Practically,” Myrick writes, “these findings … promote the idea that viewing Internet cats may actually function as a form of digital pet therapy and/or stress relief for Internet users.” 
  
 Digital pet therapy? Don’t mind if I do! 
  
 As silly and frivolous as this may seem, however (particularly since cats have become the shorthand for Internet frivolity), Myrick’s research actually goes pretty far toward explaining why we have the Internet we do. In short, the social Web doesn’t favor clickbait and cat GIFs because it’s inherently shallow or stupid — but because that stuff feels good. 
  
 [You should actually blame America for everything you hate about ‘Internet culture’] 
  
 Incidentally, that framework on media consumption predates Internet cat videos: It’s called “mood management theory,” and it was proposed by the German researcher Dolf Zillmann more than 25 years ago. People gravitate toward pieces of content, Zillman argued, that will either (a) make them feel better or (b) maintain their current good moods. It explains, per previous research, why unhappy people generally choose more upbeat music, for instance, and why women experiencing PMS watch more TV comedies than other women do. 
  
 Could MMT also explain the rise of Buzzfeed and Upworthy and Emergency Pugs? Or the Internet’s apparent preference for memes and GIFs and goats over far more serious subjects? 
  
 Those are questions for future research, of course. But — ugh, sigh — more research means more work. 
  
 Perhaps, to lift your spirits, watch a little Maru first! 
  
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A:
Two million cat videos posted on YouTube with around 26 billion views last year adds up to an awful lot of time watching funny cats, but it's not completely wasted time, according to an Indiana University researcher. Media professor Jessica Gall Myrick surveyed around 7,000 people and discovered that watching online cat videos increased their energy and positive emotions, according to a university press release. Myrick says she felt "compelled to gather some data about this pop culture phenomenon," and while it may not seem like a serious topic, "if we want to better understand the effects the Internet may have on us as individuals and on society, then researchers can't ignore Internet cats anymore." Watching the videos helped get rid of negative emotions, so even if people are "watching cat videos on YouTube to procrastinate or while they should be working, the emotional pay-off may actually help people take on tough tasks afterward," Myrick says. Her study echoes "mood management theory" from long before the age of online cats, which found that people lean toward content that makes them feel better or keeps up their good moods, the Washington Post notes. The study doesn't appear to have looked into the effects of cat videos on people who don't like cats: The survey was distributed on social media and some 36% described themselves as cat people, while 60% said they liked both cats and dogs. (On the flip side, another study found your cat could be making you crazy.)