YouTube: the most popular cats from its first 10 years

From Maru to Grumpy Cat, Surprise Kitten to Nyan Cat, felines have been some of the biggest stars on so far. But which are most popular?

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YouTube. Cats. Two concepts that, however much that horse-dancing chap from South Korea sticks his oar in, will always be interlinked in hundreds of millions of people's minds.

Cats are YouTube's muses and its mascots. But which are the most musey and mascotty? As the service celebrates its 10th birthday, we asked YouTube's trends team what the most popular felines of its first decade were.

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