Cat Clapping Meme: Your Own Cat Takes the Bow
The grinning black cat that sits up, claps, gets shushed and shakes your hand, now with your own pet in its place. Pick a clip, upload one photo of your cat or dog, and AI plays the whole cat clapping meme with it, same moves, same timing, same sound.
- One pet photo
- Cats and dogs
- Treat, shush, clap, handshake
- Original sound
Sexually explicit (NSFW) content is strictly prohibited.
Pick a sample
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Cat Clapping Meme Examples
Twenty-five cat clapping meme clips, most liked first: Aleksandr Kim’s own clips of his black cat, the classroom, hospital and dorm POVs, the clay version, AC Milan’s matchday, a costume, people copying the clap, and an orange tabby in the original scene. Pick one, add a photo of your pet, and the AI puts it in the scene.
The original: a treat, a shush, a clap
Aleksandr Kim holds out a treat, his black cat takes it, sits up and grins; he puts a finger to his lips and it claps back, then shakes his hand. The cat clapping meme starts here: 44.3M plays, 6.2M likes.
@merkurianin on TikTokCopying the cat, move for move
"I’m the original, and that’s a fact": he kneels on the floor and copies every clap, grin and shush while the cat does it in the corner. Remix it and either part of the cat clapping meme can be yours. 25.8M plays, 3.1M likes.
@merkurianin on TikTokClay animation
The whole cat clapping meme redone in clay, frame by frame: the grinning cat claps, a clay man shushes it, and a hand comes in for the handshake. 11M plays, 2.2M likes.
@fajnyczlowiek01 on TikTokClapping on the sofa
The cat sits up on a white sofa and claps while its owner watches, baffled, from the couch. One of the first clapping cat clips: 14.9M plays, 2M likes.
@merkurianin on TikTokPaying the clapping cat
He claps along by the bikes, the cat claps back on the table by the blinds, and he slips it a stack of cash for the show. 14.5M plays, 1.7M likes.
@merkurianin on TikTokPOV: clapping in class
"Ssstt.. don’t be noisy": the green-screen cat sits on a desk in a full lecture hall, claps, gets shushed and shakes hands. The POV that made the cat clapping meme everyone’s: 16.1M plays, 1.6M likes.
@cipiww_ on TikTokBro almost woke the baby up
The cat clapping meme in a hospital room: a newborn asleep in the cot, and the cat clapping on the bed until a hand with a wristband shushes it. 11.3M plays, 1.3M likes.
@chefboyag on TikTokThe cat with human hands
A muscular black cat with very human hands at a desk, cut against its owner doing the same moves. 5.9M plays, 957K likes.
@merkurianin on TikTokThe couch clap
He lies on the couch and cheers it on, and the cat sits up on a cushion, grins and claps. Posted on 18 September, a week before the treat clip: 7.1M plays.
@merkurianin on TikTokBy the window blinds
The cat on a table in front of white blinds and a ring light, clapping slowly and grinning straight at the lens. 5M plays, 806K likes.
@merkurianin on TikTokClapping cat green screen
The cat cut out on green: sit up, grin, clap, shush, handshake. The clip everyone pasted into their own videos, 12.2M plays. Remix it to get your own pet clapping on a green screen.
@greenscreenzar on TikTokPeekaboo, then a clap
He covers his eyes on the couch, and when he looks again the cat is up on the sofa clapping. 5M plays, 668K likes.
@merkurianin on TikTokBro shush, we’re skipping
Hiding in the school toilets, and the cat will not stop clapping. A hand flaps at it to be quiet. 4.6M plays, 346K likes.
@yeltiktok on TikTokMatchday at AC Milan
AC Milan made its own cat clapping meme on the pitch before the Sassuolo game, a finger to its lips: 1.4M plays, 241K likes.
@acmilan on TikTokOn the school desk
The cat claps on a classroom desk by the lockers, and a hand reaches over to shake its paw. 5.2M plays, 210K likes.
@filda_330 on TikTokMy roommate’s sleeping
"Bro stop clapping, my roommate’s sleeping": the cat claps on an unmade dorm bed while a hand waves it quiet. 109K likes.
@avastelacioo on TikTokA person doing the cat
"Cat claps and handshake, 0.000026% accuracy": a man filmed from above copies the clap, the mouth cover and the paw. Upload a selfie and the AI puts you in the cat’s place: 2.4M plays.
@faristar.tv2 on TikTokNoooo, bro is sleeping
The cat clapping over someone asleep under a flowery blanket, shushed again and again. 2.6M plays.
@adv__rao on TikTokFeeding the cat
A man at a table feeds the black cat a treat, shushes it and gets the clap and the handshake: the original scene with a different owner. 1.7M plays.
@roblox_donater49854 on TikTokAI clapping cat costume
"Niche Halloween": she goes as the AI clapping cat, cat ears and all, clapping and shushing next to the real thing. 390K plays, 63K likes.
@camrynw44 on TikTokStop clapping, we’re eating
Snacks hidden in a school bag, and the cat clapping right next to them. 1.3M plays.
@sfsf0917 on TikTokOn a film set
The cat claps on the floor of a busy set while the crew walks past, and a finger comes in to shush it. 2.7M plays.
@diwan_official on TikTokAn orange tabby instead
The same treat, shush, clap and handshake with an orange tabby and a different owner. What this page does to the cat clapping meme with your pet: the scene stays, the cat is yours.
View on TikTokThe treat scene, her version
The original treat scene with a woman in a cream jumper holding out the snack: the black cat takes it, claps, covers its mouth and shakes her hand.
View on TikTokCat versus boy
A buff black cat with human hands claps at a desk, and a boy in a cardigan answers with the same moves.
View on TikTokWhat Is the Cat Clapping Meme?
The cat clapping meme is a few seconds of a black cat acting far too human. It sits up on its hind legs, grins with a full set of teeth, opens its arms and gives a slow, smug clap. Someone shushes it, it claps a hand over its mouth, and then it reaches out a paw to shake on it. On TikTok it goes by "cat clapping meme", "cat clapping hand meme", "clapping cat" and "black cat clapping", and the AI version by "cat clapping ai".
It started with @merkurianin, Aleksandr Kim, who posts AI clips of his black cat and had it clapping on the sofa by mid-September. On 25 September he posted the one where he feeds it a treat, puts a finger to his lips and the cat claps back: 44 million plays and 6.2 million likes. Two days later a green-screen cut of the cat went up, and everyone dropped it into their own day as a POV joke: the cat clapping in a lecture hall (16 million plays), next to a newborn in a hospital room ("Bro almost woke the baby up"), in a dorm while a roommate sleeps, on the pitch at AC Milan’s matchday. There is a clay animation of it, a Halloween costume, and people copying the moves themselves.
Here the cat clapping meme turns round: instead of pasting someone else’s cat into your video, your own pet becomes the clapping cat. Pick a sample, upload one photo of your cat or dog, and the AI makes it sit up, grin, clap, cover its mouth and shake hands on cue, in the same scene, with the same sound. Add a photo of yourself and you can be the one holding the treat.
How to Make a Cat Clapping Meme with Your Cat
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Pick a clip
The original treat scene, a POV in class or at night, the clay version or one of the remakes. The camera, the setting, the timing and the sound of your cat clapping meme all come from the clip you pick.
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Upload your pet
One clear photo of your cat or dog, the whole body in frame. The AI keeps its fur, markings and face and only adds the grin and the clapping paws. A second photo of you replaces the person who feeds and shushes it.
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Create and post
The prompt is already written. You get your cat clapping meme at the sample’s length with its original sound, ready to post with #clappingcat.
Tips for a Better Clapping Cat
Show the whole pet
In the cat clapping meme the cat has to sit up and use its front paws, so a photo with the whole body and both front legs visible works far better than a close-up of the face.
Front-facing, one animal
A pet looking at the camera gives the AI a face to grin with and paws to shake. Crop out other pets and people, or it may pick the wrong one.
Light dark fur well
Black and dark-brown fur loses its detail in a dim room. A photo near a window keeps the coat, the eyes and the whiskers sharp in every frame of your cat clapping meme.
Match the clip to the joke
The original cat clapping meme works best with a second photo of you as the one with the treat. For a POV, pick the classroom, hospital or bedroom sample that looks most like your own day and caption it the same way.
Pricing
Each cat clapping meme video is one use (700 credits), whether you pick any length from 5 to 13 seconds. The price is on the button before you start, and nothing else is added.
A single use is $9.90; packs of 4 and 8 uses, or a monthly plan that posts trend videos to your accounts for you, cost less per video. A render that fails is refunded automatically.
Autopilot plans
Every month we turn the newest trends into meme videos and post them to your accounts. Each post is one of the plan’s videos, and any you make yourself come out of the same count. Cancel any time.
One-time video packs
Pay once and use them on any trend template, at any length. The credits never expire, and the other video tools can spend them too.
Use it responsibly
- Only upload photos of yourself, of people who said yes, or of your own pets.
- Do not use it to make someone look like they did something they did not.
- Label the result as AI when you post it; TikTok and Instagram both have an AI-generated tag.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cat clapping meme?
It is the TikTok meme of a grinning black cat that sits up on its hind legs, claps slowly with very human-looking hands, gets shushed, covers its mouth and offers a paw to shake. On this page you can make the cat clapping meme with your own cat or dog: pick a clip, upload a photo and the AI plays the scene with your pet.
What is the origin of the cat clapping meme?
It comes from @merkurianin on TikTok, Aleksandr Kim, who posts AI clips of his black cat. The one where he feeds it a treat, shushes it and it claps and shakes his hand went up on 25 September 2026 and has 44 million plays; it is the first sample on this page. A green-screen cut of the cat followed two days later and became the POV versions.
Is the cat clapping real or staged?
Neither: the clapping is AI. Aleksandr Kim makes the clips of his black cat with AI, and no real cat sits up and claps with a human grin like that. The POV versions are the same AI cat cut out on a green screen and pasted into people’s own videos, which is why it shows up in classrooms and hospital rooms.
What does the cat clapping meme mean?
It is a "be quiet" joke. The cat claps far too loudly somewhere you must not make a sound, in class, next to a sleeping baby or a roommate, gets shushed, and then shakes on it as if the two of you made a deal. Used on its own, the smug little clap is a sarcastic round of applause.
How do I make a cat clapping meme with my own cat?
Pick a sample, upload one clear photo of your cat with its whole body in frame, and create. The sample is the reference video: the AI copies its motion, timing and sound and redraws the clapping cat as your pet, keeping its fur, markings and face. You get the clip at the sample’s length, without a watermark.
Can I use a dog, or be in it myself?
Yes. Any cat works, black, orange, white or tabby, and so do dogs. Add a photo of yourself as the second image to be the one who holds out the treat, shushes the cat and shakes its paw, or use a single photo of you to take the cat’s place, like the people who copy the clap.
Is there a cat clapping filter or template?
You do not need a filter or a CapCut template here: every cat clapping meme sample on this page is a template you can remix with your own pet. For your own edits, the "Clapping cat green screen" prompt makes your pet clap on a plain green background, like the green screen everyone uses.
How much does it cost?
One video is one use, 700 credits, at any length from 5 to 13 seconds. A single use is $9.90, and packs of 4 and 8 cost less per video. Failed renders are refunded.
What happens to the photos I upload?
They are stored in your account so you can reuse them, sent to the video model only for your render, and never shown to anyone else. You can delete them from your history at any time.
Does the video have a watermark?
No. You download a clean MP4, ready to post on TikTok, Reels or Shorts.
Give Your Cat a Round of Applause
One photo, and your own pet sits up, grins and claps in the cat clapping meme everyone is sharing.
Make my clapping catCat Clapping Meme AI Prompts
The prompts behind your cat in the original, the classroom and night-time POVs, a clapping dog and a green-screen clapping cat you can drop into your own edits. They work in any image-to-video model that takes a reference photo.
Your cat in the original
Image 1 is the Pet, a real photo of a cat or dog. Image 2, if given, is the Owner. A tiled living-room floor seen from a low angle, a pink cat tree in the corner. The Owner from Image 2 (or a hand, if there is no Image 2) holds out a treat; the Pet takes it, then the camera cuts back and forth between the Owner and the Pet. The Pet sits up on its hind legs facing the camera, flashes a wide, toothy, almost human grin, opens its front legs wide and claps its paws together slowly, twice, looking very pleased with itself. A hand comes into frame with one finger raised to shush it; the Pet covers its mouth with a paw, peeks over it, then reaches out one paw for a handshake. The Owner shakes the paw, nodding. Keep the Pet exactly as in Image 1: species, breed, fur colour and pattern, markings, eye colour and face; only the grin and the clapping paws are new. Vertical 9:16 phone video, handheld, natural light, photorealistic, no text, no logos. Audio: the room, a quiet chuckle, the soft clap of paws.
POV: clapping in class
Image 1 is the Pet, a real photo of a cat or dog. Image 2, if given, is the Owner. POV from a student’s seat in a full lecture hall, the teacher at the front, classmates in rows. The Pet sits on the desk in front of the camera. The Pet sits up on its hind legs facing the camera, flashes a wide, toothy, almost human grin, opens its front legs wide and claps its paws together slowly, twice, looking very pleased with itself. A hand comes into frame with one finger raised to shush it; the Pet covers its mouth with a paw, peeks over it, then reaches out one paw for a handshake. The other students never turn round. Keep the Pet exactly as in Image 1: species, breed, fur colour and pattern, markings, eye colour and face; only the grin and the clapping paws are new. Vertical 9:16 phone video, handheld, natural light, photorealistic, no text, no logos. Audio: a lecture murmuring on, paws clapping far too loud.
POV: someone is sleeping
Image 1 is the Pet, a real photo of a cat or dog. Image 2, if given, is the Owner. POV at night in a dim bedroom, someone asleep under a blanket in the background, the phone held low. The Pet sits up on the bed right in front of the camera. The Pet sits up on its hind legs facing the camera, flashes a wide, toothy, almost human grin, opens its front legs wide and claps its paws together slowly, twice, looking very pleased with itself. A hand comes into frame with one finger raised to shush it; the Pet covers its mouth with a paw, peeks over it, then reaches out one paw for a handshake. Nobody wakes up. Keep the Pet exactly as in Image 1: species, breed, fur colour and pattern, markings, eye colour and face; only the grin and the clapping paws are new. Vertical 9:16 phone video, handheld, natural light, photorealistic, no text, no logos. Audio: soft snoring, then the clap.
Dog clapping
Image 1 is the Pet, a real photo of a cat or dog. Image 2, if given, is the Owner. The Pet is a dog. It sits up on its back legs on a living-room rug, facing the camera. The Pet sits up on its back legs facing the camera, flashes a wide, toothy, almost human grin, opens its front legs wide and claps its paws together slowly, twice, looking very pleased with itself. A hand comes into frame with one finger raised to shush it; the Pet covers its mouth with a paw, peeks over it, then reaches out one paw for a handshake. Keep the Pet exactly as in Image 1: species, breed, fur colour and pattern, markings, eye colour and face; only the grin and the clapping paws are new. Vertical 9:16 phone video, handheld, natural light, photorealistic, no text, no logos. Audio: the room, the clap of paws, a laugh off camera.
Clapping cat green screen
Image 1 is the Pet, a real photo of a cat or dog. Image 2, if given, is the Owner. The Pet stands alone on a flat, evenly lit chroma-key green background, full body in frame, camera locked off. The Pet sits up on its hind legs facing the camera, flashes a wide, toothy, almost human grin, opens its front legs wide and claps its paws together slowly, twice, looking very pleased with itself. A hand comes into frame with one finger raised to shush it; the Pet covers its mouth with a paw, peeks over it, then reaches out one paw for a handshake. Keep the Pet exactly as in Image 1: species, breed, fur colour and pattern, markings, eye colour and face; only the grin and the clapping paws are new. Vertical 9:16, sharp edges around the fur, no shadow on the green, no text, no logos. Audio: silence.