Grumpy Cat: The Forbes Interview.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

Ms Cat, thank you for taking the time off your insanely busy schedule to visit us here at Forbes today.

Here at Forbes, we're all about the money. We're about the billionaires; the bling. The Friskies, if you will.

But in an era of falling advertising rates on the internet, and ubiquitous pet content across all of social media, how do you plan to bolster and strengthen your brand for maximum monetization?

GC: your question disgusts me.


I'm a long time student of your work, and it strikes me that, unlike other internet memes, there's a deeper philosophical underpinning to your performances...I would call it almost an existential angst; a conscious rejection of rationalism--even nihilism, if I might be so bold.

I'm reminded of this quote if I can remember it correctly from Kafka, "The more men progress, the further they are away from their goal. Th..i..s..s..w..o...u...b...l...oo..u..r....w...p...a...w...p...r....u...b.....l........u............b..........g.......l..........e........h........That is all.
Is that what you're trying to get at, Grumpy?

GC: I read Kafka once. I wish I hadn't

So, Grumpy, as an internet meme, I feel like you're in an unique position to comment on some of the larger trends as the internet fundamentally transforms the world.

At heart, do you think the internet is a force for liberal "Progress", if you will, as evidenced by events like the Arab Spring, or whether that sort of digital utopianism is really just a naive canard that hides the internet's power to tighten the grip of totalitarianism through things like government surveillance and analysis of large data sets of personal information, as Morozov and others have argued and you undoubtedly have followed?

GC: Morozov? His naivete bores me.

Camus once wrote, quote, "You'll never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of."
Do you think it's time to for you to finally end the search to obtain the happiness that you so desperately seek?

GC: I was happy once. It was awful.
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Hey Grump, you might be on the cover of Forbes magazine. Won't THAT make you happy?

GC: no.