Please Rotate Your Telephone Cat

Text on the meme

YEAR: 1980 Please Rotate Your Telephone!

What it means

A man looks up beneath a brightly lit tower, then the video cuts to a confused-looking cat awkwardly standing in a bathroom beside a toilet. The footage rotates and shifts into black-and-white before showing a blue police box labeled “YEAR: 1980” and an upside-down “Please Rotate Your Telephone!” card. Aurora’s melancholic song “Runaway” plays over the absurd time-travel-style presentation, with piano, horn-like sounds, keyboard tones, and a toilet flush making the cat’s bathroom mishap feel dramatically overproduced; it is sent as an absurd reaction to a bizarre or inexplicable situation.

Speech

I saw peace of heaven. I saw peace of heaven.

Sound

♪ Aurora — Runaway

music / музыка piano / пианино air horn, truck horn keyboard (musical) / клавишные toilet flush

Objects

older man in glasses / пожилой мужчина в очках gray sweater / серый свитер illuminated tower / подсвеченная башня colorful lights / разноцветные огни cat / кот toilet / унитаз bathroom / ванная комната black-and-white checkerboard floor / чёрно-белый клетчатый пол white tiled wall / белая плиточная стена bath mat / коврик для ванной toilet paper holder / держатель туалетной бумаги blue police box / синяя полицейская будка sign / табличка black background / чёрный фон rotating video frame / вращающийся кадр