The clip comes from the longer kitty cat dance song that circulated online as a novelty track, built entirely around the repeated I'm a kitty cat lyric. Its short, catchy hook made it easy to repost as a soundboard clip and reuse in edits long before short form video, and it later found a second life on TikTok and Reels. Creators keep returning to it because the lyric matches cat footage so literally, letting any pet video feel like a tiny musical performance.