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Featured era: 2007
The Mean Kitty Song
“Hey, little Sparta.”
- Featured era
- 2007
- Peak era
- 2007-2008
- Company
- Cory Williams
- Category
- Viral Videos
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Cory Williams' "The Mean Kitty Song"
Plays from YouTube when you press play. Views, length and date from YouTube, October 2026.
About This Video
- From:
- SMP Films
- Added:
- September 5, 2007
- Length:
- 3:30
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What Was It?
"The Mean Kitty Song", also known as "Hey Little Sparta", is a song and video by YouTuber Cory Williams about his cat, Sparta. Williams, who was born in Merced, California, posted it to YouTube in 2007, and it quickly became his best-known work.
Within a year it was ranked among YouTube's all-time favourite videos, and it was shown on television, including CBS's The Early Show.
Its success led Williams to launch a spin-off channel, TheMeanKitty, in 2008, with funny moments and short films starring Sparta and his other cat, Loki. The song stayed his most popular video for more than a decade, until another cat video, "How To Get A Kitty Belly", overtook it in 2018.
Things You Probably Forgot
- "Hey Little Sparta"
- The TheMeanKitty spin-off channel
- Loki joining Sparta on screen
- Seeing it turn up on The Early Show
The Story
- 2007 Cory Williams posted "The Mean Kitty Song" to YouTube.
- 2008 Williams launched the spin-off channel TheMeanKitty.
- 2018 "How To Get A Kitty Belly" overtook it as his most popular video.
- 2020 Sparta, the mean kitty himself, died in June.
Its Legacy
The video is still on YouTube. Sparta died in 2020, but the song keeps him famous for everyone who grew up with it.
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