'Everything I know is a lie': Fans of 'Hello Kitty' stunned to hear she’s not a cat after all

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Source: Agence France-Presse

Hello Kitty is not a cat, the company behind Japan’s global icon of cute insisted Thursday, despite an uproar from Internet users who spluttered: “But she’s got whiskers!”

The moon-faced creation that adorns everything from pencil cases to pyjamas the world over is, in fact, human.

“Hello Kitty is a cheerful and happy little girl with a heart of gold,” brand owner Sanrio says on its website.

The shocking revelation came to light when a Hawaii-based academic specialising in the epitome of “kawaii” (“cute” in Japanese) asked Sanrio to fact-check captions for an exhibition she was curating to mark the 40th anniversary of Hello Kitty

Christine Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, told the Los Angeles Times that she “was corrected — very firmly” by Sanrio that Kitty was not a cat.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/28/everything-i-know-is-a-lie-fans-of-hello-kitty-stunned-to-hear-shes-not-a-cat-after-all/

[In_The_Wind]

1. Wow!

[bananas]

12. I thought they were going to say she's an alien from the Cat Star, Furrius!

[Shrike47]

2. The hell she's not!

[bananas]

3. Her real name is Kitty White, and she was born in southern England on November 1, 1974.

And she has a sister, Minny.

More details with the article.

[undergroundpanther]

11. the only kitty white I know

Is my own white cat.Ironically named Bear.

[PoliticAverse]

4. And this is a shark...

[gordianot]

6. The indignities of being a Kitty. That is funny.

My 8 month old Granddaughter is a dead ringer for a cabbage patch in her knitted cabbage patch wig. Think I will leave Hello Kitty alone.

[Cleita]

5. I always considered the logo a bit creepy, but thought

maybe it was just me. This might explain it.

[undergroundpanther]

9. i did the it must be me too

but I stuck to my guns and said that ain't no cat.Yeah I agree, it's a creepy thing too.

[undergroundpanther]

7. I always said hello kitty is no cat

I hope my freinds who like hello kitty and wondered why a cat freak like me was not a fan,like I said that, ain't no cat,enjoy that crow pie Y'all.

[Orrex]

8. She's not a crow either.

Duh.

[undergroundpanther]

10. defiately not a crow

[americannightmare]

13. I was almost certain this was from The Onion...

Perhaps Michel Foucault would have written "This Is Not a Cat."

[DonViejo]

14. Locked...

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