People around the world are realising that Hello Kitty isn't a cat at all. A segment in a Saturday Night Live episode claims that the character is not an animal.
The episode, which aired on Sunday, December 4, shared details about the popular character. In it, there was a manager training new employees in a Hello Kitty store, as they sat behind a range of the toys, reports the Daily Mirror.
The manager said: "If you open to page five of your employee handbooks, you'll see a list of facts about Hello Kitty. As you can see, she loves to bake cookies, she goes to school, and she's not a cat, she's a human little girl."
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To which one of the employees replied: "No... why did you say Hello Kitty was a human little girl?" However, whilst many viewers may have assumed that this was made up for the comedy sketch, it's actually true, and Hello Kitty is actually a girl of primary school age.
Christine R. Yano, an anthropologist from the University of Hawaii, set the record straight when she went to the exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum. Like most people, Christine had always believed that Hello Kitty was a cat until the theory was corrected.
Christine told The Los Angeles Times : "That's one correction Sanrio made for my script for the show. Hello Kitty is not a cat. She's a cartoon character. She is a little girl. She is a friend. But she is not a cat. She's never depicted on all fours.
"She walks and sits like a two-legged creature. She does have a pet cat of her own, however, and it's called Charmmy Kitty." To make the whole storyline even more confusing, Hello Kitty actually lives in London and not Japan.
Hello Kitty was created in 1974 and then the first item, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in 1975. Originally Hello Kitty was marketed towards pre-teenage girls, but during the 1990s the brand found commercial success among both teenage and adult consumers.
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