In a seven-second video from a Reddit community, an orange cat sits beside the keyboard, staring intently at its owner's hands. The game Sinuous Arena Survivors is running on the computer screen. After watching the clip, netizens jokingly dubbed the cat a "physical anti-cheat system."
Sinuous Arena Survivors is a survivor-like game, with experience bars and hordes of enemies visible in the footage. The video caption also plays along with the joke about the cat staring at the hands: one wrong move might earn you a swipe from its paw.
The comment section continued to poke fun at the cat. Some said it could directly sabotage hardware, while others called it a supervisor monitoring action frequency or a "living keylogger." Others joked that MMOs requiring rapid number-key inputs might be more likely to annoy it.
Device heat, the owner's hand movements, and attention could all be reasons for the cat approaching the keyboard; it's impossible to determine what exactly it was focusing on based solely on this video. Other commenters guessed from its appearance that it might be a Scottish Fold, but the video did not confirm its breed.