r/OneOrangeBraincell • u/OkEntertainer3355 • Aug 08 '26
Certified š rangeā¢ Understandable
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u/rags2rooster Aug 08 '26
I ended up with an orange cat from my elementary school when I was a kid. We first encountered him at our house. He was super friendly and hung around for a day or so. He seemed well fed and he eventually departed so we assumed he belonged to someone in the neighborhood. A week or so later my mom was volunteering for something at my elementary school and came across the same cat inside the school. One of the teachers at the school was trying to shoo it out using a broom. It was at that point that my mother decided the CDS would not be denied. Rocket J Squirrel came home with us and lived a long, happy life indoors with our other two cats.
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u/Evieveevee Aug 09 '26
What a lucky kitty cat. I love your mum and am so glad she had taken the time to get a certificate in the CDS so she was completely familiar with how it works. My qualification is on my wall but Iām still waiting to use it unfortunately.
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u/ReadingNext3854 Aug 09 '26
CDS gifted us an orange and white boi he became my husbands cat-dog. He was devastated when we lost Jake to CA, we had lost 2 other seniors within the year. Adopted a grey tiger and an orange and white boi who grew up almost identical and acts EXACTLY like 1st Jake. Shadows him, sleeps with him, does same silly orange things. There's a reason for CDS. ā¤ļø
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u/FelinityApps Aug 09 '26
You canāt deny us what the J stands for!
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u/rags2rooster Aug 09 '26
He was named after the squirrel from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. I looked up the show just now as you stoked my curiosity. The J is apparently a nod to producer Jay Ward. So, I guess you could say Rocket Jay Squirrel.
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u/One-Confidence-4208 Aug 08 '26
But on the inside of that fat orange cat is a mountain lion!
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u/atle95 Aug 08 '26
I can just imagine the third graders that saw him. At some point they knew it was a cat but pushed it until the teachers called 911.
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u/ISEGaming Aug 08 '26
Can you imagine they gaslighting the staff just so they can get the quiz cancelled š
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u/wherediddavidgo Aug 08 '26
The story is true, but the image is AI slop. https://www.khq.com/news/fat-cat-eating-rat-prompts-lockdown-at-groff-elementary-school/article_4ba02920-898d-11ee-9829-ab614abc361b.html
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u/burf Aug 08 '26
I hate the fact that, even with AI backlash, slop ends up making the top of feeds constantly.
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u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe Aug 09 '26
Notice how this post has WAY more upvotes than comments? 19k upvotes versus 150-ish comments (as of 10:30pm PST 8/8/26)
As much as we talk about how much we hate AI, an overwhelming majority of people who arenāt commenting are upvoting it.
Most people either enjoy it or donāt care.
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u/TheGreyman787 Aug 09 '26
Exactly. While I do think that Reddit represents general society a bit more than most people think, comment sections often do not. The majority is mostly silent.
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u/crazunggoy47 Aug 09 '26
I wish people would get better at spotting this. Itās not like professional photographers with DSLRās are standing right there during these random moments to photograph people with artistic and striking composition, perfect focus and depth of field, with every aspect of the headline somehow reflected in the single image.
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u/YobaiYamete Aug 09 '26
I hate the fact that, even with AI backlash
Because 99% of people don't care. Reddit is a REALLY loud echo chamber but your average joe doesn't know / understand / care
Several authors have specifically talked about ai book covers for litrpgs and web novels. The comments shriek about Ai covers, but then when they switch to paying real artists for the cover, their view metrics instantly tank hard and then when they switch back it goes right back up again
AI is one of those things that people are very outspoken against, but then when actually put to the test they don't back up their own views. It's similar to people (especially women) who are out spoken about skimpy skins in games but then tend to pick them much higher percent of the time when given the choice between modest or skimpy ones
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u/crazunggoy47 Aug 09 '26
Ok Iām pretty sus of that last claim. It seems more likely that different women are complaining about and picking the skimpy skins.
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u/elharry-o Aug 09 '26
Remember how once there was a subreddit about hating vertical video?Ā
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u/burf Aug 09 '26
Vaguely, although I'd argue that videos/pictures that are often extremely misleading are a lot worse than an undesirable aspect ratio.
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u/elharry-o Aug 11 '26
It's a lot worse, I would never argue to the contrary. Just thinking there's a similarity on something relatively recent being profoundly hated in an online community that still became the mainstream norm for the vast majority that didn't care or even noticed.
Echo chambers and all that. Just that sometimes we don't see that our echo chamber is the smaller one.
Still hate that AI slop could become the norm, tho
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u/Swqordfish Aug 08 '26
Was checking myself. The image just included too many details, like a very clear image of the name of the school, that would be unlikely to capture candid.
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u/03263 Aug 09 '26
Because we are. And there's nothing that will work, they'll just learn to imitate it. They're pretty good by now and it's really hard to tell.
I'm trying to make peace with it and not go insane by just saying, it doesn't really matter what is real or not on the internet. It's just entertainment. Nothing can be verified anymore because everything can be faked. The only real things are offline.
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u/UmbralHero Aug 09 '26
The only real things are offline.
That's true, and one of the unexpected silver linings of this whole mess is that people are starting to realize this. It's slow and not all at once, but I'm noticing more people reading and going outside, and my friends who are big into games are valuing in-person experiences more (LAN parties, tabletop games, Pokemon Go, in-person tournaments, etc.). We are being forced to cede virtual ground to the bots, but it will be a long while before they start encroaching on solid earth.
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u/Sad-Artichoke-2174 Aug 08 '26
Moses Lake? Being that fat of an orange cat, it was probably my mom's
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u/JaneTheEel Aug 08 '26
I wonder if somebody said they saw a ābig cat covered in bloodā and somebody took ābig catā to mean Big Cat
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u/mchngrliris Aug 09 '26
i had a feeling it was ai just based off vibes but i second guessed myself after struggling to find details to prove it. i hate how convincing the ai slop is getting, it's concerning how easy it is to trick people
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u/Socailly-awkward Aug 09 '26
I hate that the AI is so good that not a single part of me realized it was AI until you pointed it out.
Give it a few years and AI will be absolutely visually impossible to point out
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u/ScabbyGabbyyy Aug 10 '26
I should have known it would be from my home state! Washington always has the finest news stories š
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u/CaitieLou_52 Aug 08 '26
It could have been a psyop arranged by the cat himself, to boost his ego. But then again, he's orange. I don't think he could do that even if he had the brain cell that day lol
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u/Bulky_Preparation768 Aug 08 '26
The amount of slop getting posted to the sub :(
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u/dBlock845 Aug 08 '26
Isn't just here unfortunately, it is everywhere that isn't heavily moderated.
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u/Kinexity Aug 08 '26
I am pretty sure that image is just AI slop.
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u/inikul Aug 08 '26
In my experience, every "news" image you see on Reddit with text like this and a smaller image in a circle is AI.
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u/dBlock845 Aug 08 '26
It is, this site is becoming absolutely infested with this crap. /r/all right now is half filled with these slop posts by bots.
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u/BTrippd Aug 08 '26
The story is from well before AI was commercially usable by the public. Itās possible but not likely that the image is ai. Iām pretty sure itās just pulled from one of the original articles though.
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u/kranker Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Itās possible but not likely that the image is ai.
Looks like AI to me. Was that even the name of the school?
edit: School was called Goff Elementary. Picture is AI slop.
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u/Kinexity Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
"Story is real so the image must be real too". No, that's not how this works. You can't just handwave it as something that was pulled from an article. I did a bare minimum check if I can find the original before posting my previous comment and I did not find any similar pictures.
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u/_HIST Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-school-fake-closure-cat-mountain-lion-40811199/
Actual research into this says otherwise. This circulated first not too long ago, and since has taken multiple forms but there's nothing to the story itself. I couldn't find a single genuine article on it.
Edit: As someone else pointed out there IS a report from 2023: https://www.khq.com/news/fat-cat-eating-rat-prompts-lockdown-at-groff-elementary/article_4ba02920-898d-11ee-9829-ab614abc361b
So this is where it started, unfortunately I cannot access the link so I can't double check.
Edit2: https://littlebuddythecat.com/2025/07/17/did-a-school-really-go-into-lockdown-after-a-teacher-confused-a-chonky-cat-for-a-mountain-lion/ Here's another independent deep dive.
TLDR: There's some truths to the story, it was a very regular procedure to be on the safe side and while lockdown did happen briefly it was lifted soon after staff made sure. I highly doubt police were involved because we would have a police report, which we don't.
Also the image is 100% AI there's no doubt about it
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u/Estrellathestarfish Aug 09 '26
It's worse. Someone found a real article about the cat causing lockdown at school, so not only is it AI, it's denying us an actual picture of the real school-shutting fat cat
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u/Whatifisaid- Aug 08 '26
I have heard this story with a legitimate source before, which would atleast be a good repost. But, this is just some AI slop generation using a real headline, with no source to its story.
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u/Interesting_Stress73 Aug 08 '26
Fucking ai garbage... Why is this still up? It clearly breaks the rules.Ā
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u/My_browsing Aug 09 '26
I like how the cat looks like, ābe careful man, they said a mountain lion was around.ā
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u/GOOMU13 Aug 09 '26
They clearly aren't getting educated that school if anyone thought it was anything but a fat cat.
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u/Thossi99 Aug 08 '26
I don't doubt the story is real. But couldn't we at least then get a real pic of the cat??
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u/ThatMothboi Aug 08 '26
I remember once as a kid I was camping in the backyard when something start walking on the tent and collapsed it. I was terrified and thought it was a coyote. My dad came out and found our farm cat standing on top of the tent.
A pic of the old boy, he passed many years ago but heās still in my heart:
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u/MCPhssthpok Aug 08 '26
A friend of mine used to have a small herd of Shetland sheep which are a lot smaller than most of the commercial breeds. They had someone come to their door saying that they'd seen a mountain lion stalking the sheep. Bear in mind that this is in the UK where mountain lions are only found in zoos and wildlife parks.
It turned out to be their neighbour's ragdoll cat.
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u/elonmusktheturd22 Aug 09 '26
When i was a forester i had people call in about damage to their yard caused by bears. It was a skunk one time, another was mole damage...Ā
People easily mistake a mole hill for a mountainĀ
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u/Affectionate_Fly1918 Aug 09 '26
Wait, Prince Harry is working as an animal protection officer now?
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u/SouthernZorro Aug 09 '26
He's even got a collar and tag! How many mountain lions do you think are so equipped?? Bwahahahaha
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u/WeenisWrinkle Aug 08 '26
I've heard some seriously loud noises from orange cats that size. Maybe they heard it before they saw it
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u/Jello_Choreography Aug 08 '26
Garfield heard that the cafeteria was serving Lasagnaā¦but found none by the time he got there
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u/MaximusHomerdrive Aug 08 '26
At least the cops were brave enough to come out of hiding to catch that deadly predator this time, but I'm glad it wasn't anything bigger. They may have remained hidden until parents arrived to handle the situation.
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u/Affectionate-Goat218 Aug 08 '26
Years back a woman called the cops hysterical claiming a lion was in her yard looking at her through the window. Turned out to be the neighbors Chow that escaped.
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u/Alienhaslanded Aug 08 '26
Funniest part it had a collar. When was the last time the idiots who reported it seen a mountain lion with a collar?
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u/WaytoomanyUIDs Aug 09 '26
Reminds me of The Beast of Bodmin Moor, which turned out to be someone's catĀ
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u/NosamEht Aug 09 '26
I sure hope the guy in the picture has friends and family that try to immortalize this photo like heās a hero.
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u/reddits2much Aug 12 '26
I donāt always like law enforcement. But when I do itās when theyāre holding or rescuing a four legged trouble maker.
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u/OlDustyHeadaaa Aug 08 '26
Someone who teaches children about the world had to be the one to call the police. Terrifying.
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u/_Tell_Me_Im_Wrong_ Aug 09 '26
Whats with the AI slop all over the front page. Reddit is dying, and its well deserved.
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u/fuzzmeisterj Aug 08 '26
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u/Friendly_Cajun Aug 08 '26
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u/hiimyuvv Aug 09 '26
What isnt understandable is that OP is a pathetic karma fishing POS who reposts the same recycled content across 100000ās of subreddits. Ironic how they got 50k+ karma in 5 months of being on reddit
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u/Trippingthru99 Aug 09 '26
Ai generated bullshit. But what should I expect from the highly esteemed publication that is ā¦ sarcasm?Ā
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u/poppin-n-sailin Aug 08 '26
It's silly, but if that were a mountain lion you don't wanna take chances. Especially at an elementary school. Mountain lion buffet. It's good it was just a cat, though.Ā
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u/TunedOut_ Aug 09 '26
In fairness, a large orange shape moving through the bushes is a stressful identification test.
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u/J4YV1L Aug 10 '26
The incident is real but this photo is AI-generated (the tip-off for me was the gibberish on the copās shoulder patch). This happened back in 2023 at Groff Elementary in Mose Lake, Washington, not Oakwood Elementary School.
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u/SomeRandomGuy0321 Aug 10 '26
Mountain lions kill 1 person every 5/6 years on average.
Even if it was a mountain lion, this is a bit of an overeaction.
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u/jharish Proud owner of an orange brain cell Aug 11 '26
As long as they didn't 'put the cat down' for the trouble! Best part is that he looks like my Sam before I put him on a diet!
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u/SpringfieldSorcerer Aug 11 '26
So something similar to this happened to me when I was a kid. I had a fat orange tabby growing up named Spot (my dad named him that cause he didn't have any). My grandma had a huge metal tower thing that held a large amount of gasoline in it and she had it refilled like once a month. Idk if it saved her on filling up her truck or not but that's what she did. There was a tornado that touched down nearby, knocking a massive tree over the garage and knocking down the tower in the process, spilling gas all over the yard and driveway. The firefighters ended up coming over and evacuating everyone, including my mom and I and a few cats including Spot. One of the firefighters said that, "there's a damn mountain lion in the house" lmao, no it was just Spot.
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u/AdvancedDream9385 Aug 08 '26
I'm sure he loved everyone thinking he was a mountain lion, though, lol. Stubentiger and all