Kitten Mockery of Nature

You will never be a real mushroom. You have no mycelium, you have no volva, you have no spores. You are a small kitten twisted by fabric and wool into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.

A small kitten sits on a couch dressed in a handmade crocheted mushroom costume. The text humorously scolds it for lacking real mushroom biology, while the video gradually applies increasingly intense psychedelic color distortions; robotic text-to-speech and music heighten the absurd, mock-serious joke. It works as a reaction to something adorably fake, overdramatic, or fundamentally failing to be what it claims to be.

• @sillyposting / 541 2023-03-19