The Neurosis of Cat Valentine

One solitary extraneous note: several times in this video I sarcastically refer to Cat’s difficulty in participating in standard social convention as “inhuman”, when in reality I think the naivety and earnestness of the character are extremely human, and speak to the confusion and baselessness we all feel on some level. We’re all trying to behave like those around us, navigating pleasure and pain to varying degrees of sophistication, and often just barely managing to express ourselves, all the while hoping desperately that we are Human-ing correctly. Everything I said about Cat’s character are distillations of things that are universal to us, and the directness of her behaviour is only striking because we spend so much effort disguising and dressing up our basest humanity. Cat reads as “inhuman” precisely because she is so authentically human. I feel the need to put this in writing due to the subtext of neuro-divergency that revealed itself to me in the late stages of this video’s completion. Also on that note, her "stupidity” doesn’t factor into a neuro-divergent reading of the character. Only her relationships with stimulus, self expression and social convention. Stupidity is a symptom of watching Ben Shapiro videos, not neuro-divergency. I personally was just more relating to the character on a dissociative and addictive level. Anyways that’s me talking on behalf of my loved ones on the spectrum. If you’re autistic, I love you. If you’re not, go fuck yourself. Fuck yourself right to hell. ps. don’t get in the habit of expecting social equity disclaimers from me i do what i want

Some one said the most unrealistic part of victorius was that its a art high-school full of straight people

People thinking that "not being friends" equals "absolute hatred" is so annoying. I remember people saying "Jeanette DRAGGED Ariana in her new book" and then I read it and Jeanette just said things like "we were different. She was rich and I was the breadwinner for my family. We couldn't relate to each other" and I was like "that's NOT dragging wtf"

Honestly the worst part about Cat's character was in how deeply she was fetishized. Her ND traits were flanderized and taken advantage of to put her in fetishy situations and to lean into the "dumb sexy baby" character trope. It's legitimately one of the most awful intersections of ableism and misogyny bc the appeal hinges entirely on the ability to manipulate and take advantage of a girl or woman.

The line “Jennette McCurdy was also nominated for that award. She didnt show up. Would you?” Made me so incredibly sad and it rlly puts you into her perspective, that anytime she was pitted against ariana, she wouldnt win because of the industry and the general populations bias

"and then Tori sings another fucking song"

I LOST MY FUCKING MIND HEARING YOU REFER TO ANDRE AS THE BLACK- THERE'S NO OTHER WAY TO DESCRIBE HIS ARCHETYPE AND IT'S SAD BUT FUNNY AS HELL

another interesting thing i noticed about cat's shift is her wardrobe. in the first season when she was just a typical teenage girl who was kind of dumb & neurotic sometimes, so she wore pretty typical late 2000s/early 2010s teenage girl clothes. she wore short shorts/skirts, tank tops and t-shirts with necklaces and rings and the like. in short, clothes that a teenage girl who liked feminine things would wear during that time. however, as the show progressed and her character became more childlike and her brain shifted from dumb teen to young child, she began to wear clothes that were more similar to something a young girl would wear. she started wearing more pink, her clothes had more frills and ruffles, her skirts became longer, her accessories became less like something a teen or adult would wear (like the statement jewelry she wore in s1) and she started to favor bows and some simple jewelry, like things a young child would like to wear. idk if this means anything, but it was something i noticed

i LOVE that Liz's actual personality makes jade a realistic (yet exaggerated) teenage version of her

Ok "He noticed our genders!" is fucking brilliant.

"You have a BLACK." Took me smooth out😂💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 They might aswell have named him Token😂

My interpretation of the whole "Cat punching Tori" thing wasn't that she was stupid enough to believe it was a genuine request: rather she was mad enough to WANT to punch her, and then kinda sarcastically played dumb. Granted, that was my interpretation when I watched as a kid. I haven't seen it in forever.

That’s scary. The theater teacher at my high school was the same way and had five favorites that he casted for everything no matter what and would hang out with them and give them As in class. He got fired.

"She gets so high on relief from her suffering that she forgets that the cause of her suffering has not yet gone away" is such a raw line I can't believe it was used to refer to a nickelodeon ariana grande character getting a bug stuck on her ear

my mind literally can’t put it together that Cat Valentine is Ariana Grande

I like to imagine that, in the scene where Cat punches Tori, Cat WAS already angry with Tori, but saw the “if I were you, I’d punch me…” as an invitation to act on her impulses.

I always thought I irrationally hated Cat but now I realize I didn’t hate her I subconsciously recognized her as cruel caricature making fun of neurodivergent people and I hated that

Cat Valentine throughout the series (to me, at least) quite literally feels like a neurodivergent person learning that she doesn't need to mask around her friends

cat saying “i joined a prison gang!!!!!” is like if “:D” were a person

it’s kind of unbelievable how horrible this character would’ve been on screen if it was played by anyone else. extremely well played, ariana