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I'm out of the loop.
Was there a popular app where you can abuse a cat?
Very popular in the early android age. You can still download it: its called my talking tom.
I always thought it was sketchy to make abuse look fun to kids when I found its recoil-from-a-punch animation. Meanwhile waifu apps were animated for petting. Here, single folk, any touch is a sexual one, and kids, hit cats! They bounce right back.
It also mimicked your voice with a higher pitch modulation - probably played a large part in the popularity of munchkin voices for modern miniature characters
Anyone being let loose with a smartphone should really be able to tell fiction from reality...
well it was not just for abuse, it basically repeated what you said in a funny high pitch voice, and there were many other small little activities it could do (based on where you touch the screen, for example a pat on head was meow, click on a sofa and it sits, there was shower, and other daily things - small but funny, and kinda very special like 12-15 years ago). I do not remember hitting it, but getting it to repeat stupid noises i make.