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Other outlets, like Gamerant and Gamerfront, shared in the joke.
In 2010, Weta Workshop started selling miniature Spartan helmets, so naturally, Joystiq described these as cat helmets. This was also a time period when internet jokes did not get forgotten after a week or two. Cats and small dogs everywhere are still rejoicing.” Others simply photoshopped the helmet onto cats to illustrate what might have been, as is evident in articles at Gamerant and IGN, the latter of which acknowledged the problem: “After months of trying to duct tape their Legendary Edition Master Chief helmets to their cat’s head, people have accepted that it doesn’t fit. Some intrepid fans, like the ones at the blog Nerds Trozobudos, apparently found cats with small enough heads to make it work: Image: Nerds Trozobudos don't?) /279jSbgRuk- n./s./b./? November 22, 2021īack in 2007, though, the internet’s hunger for photos of cats wearing Master Chief helmets had to be assuaged. This stupid thing is actually pretty big, if you were to hollow it out, you could fit an entire cat in there (but, again, maybe just. I hope no one's tried to torture their cat with it. The helmet was only meant to fit on its base. In response to my recent call for stories about the cat helmet, Twitter user billieberserk took a photo of the bottom of their helmet in order to illustrate the problem: Once the helmet was finally in fans’ hands, however, the disappointment returned.Īs IGN reported in an article titled “Cats denied chance to be Master Chief,” the bottom of the helmet had a strangely-shaped rectangular opening that made it almost impossible for anyone to wear. Many fans at the time also had expected the helmet to be a life-size replica that a human could wear, so referring to the helmet as a “cat helmet” was a cute way to dampen their disappointment. In the mid-2000s, cat photos were the most important type of content on the internet, so the trend made sense. Wired’s writeup similarly called the helmet “kitty-sized.” Fan forums everywhere dubbed it “the cat helmet.” Joystiq and Engadget put “cat helmet” in their headline, quoting and linking to Smith’s evocative phrasing and illustrating it all with a photo of a cat. Back in 2006, Smith worked as a games journalist for 1UP, and he described the Legendary Edition helmet as “ cat-head sized.” Other people ran with the joke after that. As for who is to blame for the indignity these cats have endured, the answer may be Bungie’s own Luke Smith.