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THE SIGHTINGS ARE INCREASING. • SIGHTING #047 — GARDAÍ CONFIRM VIRAL WEXFORD 'CAT IN THE HAT' PHOTO WAS AI-GENERATED — WEXFORD, CO. WEXFORD, IRELAND — 40 MIN AGO • SIGHTING #046 — POLICE DEBUNK FAKE 'KILLER CAT IN THE HAT' STATEMENT ABOUT MEADOWHALL — MEADOWHALL, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND — 2 HOURS AGO • SIGHTING #045 — CNN: NOBODY CAN SAY WHICH NIGHT-TIME VIDEOS, IF ANY, ARE REAL — UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND — YESTERDAY • SIGHTING #044 — REDDIT POSTER ADMITS BALGADDY 'SIGHTING' WAS A JOKE — BALGADDY, DUBLIN, IRELAND — YESTERDAY • SIGHTING #043 — SHAKY LIMERICK CLIPS PUSH THE TREND ACROSS IRELAND — LIMERICK, IRELAND — 2 DAYS AGO • THE SIGHTINGS NEVER STOP.THE SIGHTINGS ARE INCREASING. • SIGHTING #047 — GARDAÍ CONFIRM VIRAL WEXFORD 'CAT IN THE HAT' PHOTO WAS AI-GENERATED — WEXFORD, CO. WEXFORD, IRELAND — 40 MIN AGO • SIGHTING #046 — POLICE DEBUNK FAKE 'KILLER CAT IN THE HAT' STATEMENT ABOUT MEADOWHALL — MEADOWHALL, SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND — 2 HOURS AGO • SIGHTING #045 — CNN: NOBODY CAN SAY WHICH NIGHT-TIME VIDEOS, IF ANY, ARE REAL — UNITED KINGDOM & IRELAND — YESTERDAY • SIGHTING #044 — REDDIT POSTER ADMITS BALGADDY 'SIGHTING' WAS A JOKE — BALGADDY, DUBLIN, IRELAND — YESTERDAY • SIGHTING #043 — SHAKY LIMERICK CLIPS PUSH THE TREND ACROSS IRELAND — LIMERICK, IRELAND — 2 DAYS AGO • THE SIGHTINGS NEVER STOP.
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Patient Zero: One Edit, Four Million Views, Six Weeks To Ireland

The trend started on TikTok on 30 June with a re-cut scene from the 2003 film.

Patient Zero: One Edit, Four Million Views, Six Weeks To Ireland

According to IBTimes UK, citing Know Your Meme, the format began with a video posted on 30 June 2026 that passed four million views inside a week.

Imitators added black-and-white filters, distorted audio and found-footage effects. Later versions dropped the film entirely and used AI to place the character into photographs of ordinary streets.

That last step is where a meme became a 'sighting'.

Source: IBTimes UK via inkl, 20 August 2026

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