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I mean, I think the people who thought that kitty was a cat are in the majority.<\/p>\n
But nope! The beloved cartoon character, now celebrating its 50th anniversary\u2014which officially occurs on November 1\u2014is most definitely not an animal at all, but rather a little girl of the Homo genus.<\/p>\n
Today, on July 18, Jill Koch<\/strong>, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Management at Sanrio, Hello Kitty\u2019s flagship company, explained in six words that quickly left us unsettled, \u201cHello Kitty is not a cat.\u201d<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t enough, however, as she continued to divulge more about the character we thought we knew so well: \u201cShe\u2019s actually a little girl born and raised in the suburbs of London. She has a mom and dad and a twin sister, Mimmy\u2014who is also her best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n Her full name is also Kitty White. Like, what?!<\/p>\n But maybe you did know, because this wasn\u2019t the first time Hello Kitty had this news circulating around. In fact, the character made headlines back in 2014, around its 40th anniversary, for the exact same reason.<\/p>\n During that time, anthropologist\u00a0Christine R. Yano<\/strong>\u2014who authored\u00a0Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty\u2019s Trek Across The Pacific<\/em>\u2014was corrected \u201cvery firmly\u201d by Sanrino on the distinction between cat and little girl amid prepping for a Hello Kitty exhibit at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n