Sanrio: Hello Kitty Not a Cat--People: WHAAAATT?!??--Me: *FACEPALM*

Hey. You guys know what Hello Kitty is, so I'll get to the point.
This week, Sanrio, the Japanese company behind it, made a reveal that the anthropomorphic animal of our happiness, is not what we all really thought she was all these years: a cat. She's not a cat, but a "person" that so happens to look like a cat. The LA Times reports that University of Hawaii anthropologist Christine R. Yano found some news while working on a HK retrospective exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum.
More deets here: http://www.thewire.com/culture/2014/08/what-mrow-hello-kitty-is-not-a-cat/379252/

Really? Who gives a flying fuck about this?? And who should? Because the sad thing about it is that people are actually angry about this. ANGRY!!
There are people dying in the Middle East, Robin Williams recently died, people are wasting water on the Ice Bucket Challenge (at least some are) and there was a nearly-month-long standoff in Ferguson, MO, after the death of Mike Brown. I'm even angry that Ricky Gervais didn't win an Emmy. And yet, many people choose to be angry at this crap?! Really, people? It's a frickin' fake character!!! Who should care about what it is, or how it looks like? Well, except those crazy, annoying diehard fans of TV shows, movies and comic books. Hello Kitty is just a thing with clothes on and no mouth behind a pink background. I don't know (or get) the appeal of this, but it's there. When I heard about this story, I thought: "Hello Kitty is still around?" and "Why should I care?" and 'What's for dinner?". That's all I have, because I find this shit absurd enough to not be considered a thing to discuss among ourselves. And yet, in the age of social media, this is what we have to look at.

And to the people who are actually pissed about it: Why the hell do you care?? Hello Kitty is a fictional character. The only thing we actually know is that she's a female, we love the cuteness about her and all the merch we have of her and her friends is astronomical. Why the hell do you care about the fact that she's not what you think she is? Or the puzzling fact that she's British, despite the fact that Sanrio is a Japanese company. This just doesn't make sense. Kinda like your mindset; you need to fix that.

I bet @midnight is gonna have a field day (or night) with this.