Claire, better known online as Kittisaurus (formerly also known with the seven original cats as Cream Heroes), is a South Korean YouTuber who makes videos and vlogs about them, mostly inside her house. Claire usually films the cats during daily activities or while presenting special challenges like mazes made out of toilet paper. A previous channel, "Cream Radio" has been deleted, where Claire used to upload ASMR Videos of cats' purring and pouring of cat-food into bowls while LuLu eating them. Claire wishes to not reveal her face, but it is clear that she has reddish-brown hair and fair skin, on top of being ethnically Korean. Later, she revealed her face. She owns three channels after having been ousted from the main CreamHeroes channel in March of 2020.
Cats[]
LuLu[]
LuLu belongs to the younger generation of cats, brought in with ChuChu and LaLa in spring of 2017. LuLu is a tomcat. He suffered from a hereditary and genetic disease. He is a hybrid of a Scottish Fold cat and a British Shorthair. The genetic disease caused a pain on his right front foot. He was taken to the veterinary hospital whose Doctor LuLu calls the "Porkchop Hospital Guy". LuLu is the most active of all the cats. He has light brown fur around his body with a darker shade on his back. He is known for unsolicitedly offering his trademark "LuLu's Shampoo Service" of extensive licking to all other cats and Claire. When food is being served, LuLu is the first one up for food roaming behind Claire everywhere. Sometimes, LuLu comes and sits down on Claire's laptop, typing up something unexpected. He occasionally is referred to as a squirrel because of his bushy tail and fur colour.
LaLa[]
LaLa is a female napoleon cat with completely white fur and blue eyes, born and adopted in early 2017. The main characteristics that distinguish her from samely coloured CoCo are a slimmer face, shorter munchkin legs, and eyes with a darker shade of blue. Unusually for white cats with blue eyes, both LaLa and CoCo are not deaf. LaLa is considered to be the beauty of the bunch and is often referred to as Claire's baby. She shares a bond with DD from the first day they met, she even would attack notoriously ill-tempered TT to defend him. When Claire introduced a running wheel to the apartment, it was LaLa who ended up using it the most.
CoCo[]
CoCo is a longhaired tomcat with completely white fur and blue eyes, being part of the second generation of Cream Heroes together with MoMo, born and adopted in 2016. Claire has named him Dr. CoCo because of his naturally curious and inquisitive nature. CoCo loves snacks more than food. He is a bit lazy and does not like to be bothered much, which is why he doesn't appear in front of the camera as often. Unlike LuLu however, he loves being brushed.
ChuChu[]
ChuChu is a female Scottish Fold cat who has golden-white hair all over her body and partial golden hair over her forehead. She belongs to the third generation of Cream Heroes, born and adopted in early 2017. ChuChu was adopted by Claire after she received a call from a person who noticed ChuChu as a stray kitten. Claire would vlog herself nursing ChuChu back to health through various health complications stemming from her being born a stray. ChuChu is generally a very anxious cat, will quickly flee unknown situations and is therefore the cat with the least screen time.
TT[]
TT is a female European Shorthair mix and has tabby-coloured grey fur all over her body. She is DDs biological sibling and has been part of the first generation of Cream Heroes, born in January of 2015 and adopted soon after. For a time, she only ate snacks but not food or supplements. So, to find out which cat-food TT likes, she bought in many different brands of cat-food. TT loved every single brand, so, confused, Claire distributed the food among the seven cats so that they could have what they liked. TT is known for being the grumpiest of the cats. While she is friendly towards Claire, she famously punches the other cats if they come too close to her and even once scratched the vet. In October 2022, Claire had to travel to Japan to buy kidney medicine for TT, where she stayed for three days before returning to her native Korea.
DD[]
DD is a male Norweigian Forest Cat mix with orange and white fur. Considered to be the de facto leader of the Cream Heroes, he will usually be the first to fearlessly approach and inspect any new items or visitors. He is known for chittering at the sight of something (or someone) exciting and will patiently endure nail clipping and even bathing sessions. The only Cream Hero who is able to open doors and drawers, his skills are sought after by the other cats, especially at night. He likes bread and is sometimes referred to as a loaf of bread due to his fur colour.
MoMo[]
MoMo is the oldest of all the cats in appearance, but is actually part of the second generation of Cream Heroes born in 2016. He is an all-orange tomcat with a short nose, slightly crooked eyes and wrinkles on his forehead. Claire symbolizes MoMo as "Chairman MoMo" due to his appearance. When being voiced by Claire, MoMo has a rough elderly voice and preaches platitudes and life wisdoms like an old chairman. His catchphrase is "Stamina!", which is uttered before or during great feats of physical strength. He usually hangs out with LuLu and to date has received the most shampoo services. There is only one thing the chairman truly fears: Human babies.
The New Cats[]
In addition to the original seven cats, three new ones (a mother and her kittens) have been brought home. According to Claire, the cats were subject to euthanasia at an animal shelter, so Claire bought them. The mother cat gave birth to two kittens, now let free in the house with the other seven cats. Originally on Kittisaurus, they were labelled as "Kitten #1" and "2", with the mother cat not having a name and often being simply referred to as "Mother Cat". However on August 10th 2020, Claire posted a video to Kittisaurus titled "Giving the New Cat Family a Home!" in which she announced that the small family were going to be permanently staying with Claire and the other cats, ending the video with an "intro" that officially named the three new arrivals: NaNa (mother), ToTo and DoDo.
Other channels[]
Claire Luvcat[]
Since Creamheroes was taken from her, most her cat shorts are uploaded here, as well as vlogs of her own life.
Claire's English Diary[]
Here she makes vlogs centered around herself.
크집사빨간맛[]
Here, she uploads gaming live streams. The first gaming livestream she uploaded was of The Legend of Zelda and she has also uploaded several streams of her playing games from the Super Mario franchise. Other games she has played include Mad Father, House Flipper and StarCraft.
Controversy[]
On 19th of March 2020 Claire uploaded a video titled "Goodbye CreamHeroes" to her own "Butler" channel, on which she announced her departure from the CreamHeroes channel, citing disagreements about the channel ownership with the multi-channel network she had associated with. At the 2:55 mark, a bunch of carrots flies into the picture. This is a reference to the Korean saying "when you're being treated unfairly, shake the carrots" and in Korean YouTube circles, is a meme/hint about being mistreated. This spurred a wave of outrage amongst her fans, especially as Claire provided proof that she donated her severance pay to a cat charity and it became clear that she was only paid 20 Million Won (around USD $16,000 or 14,000€) for her entire stake in the company.
On 21st of March 2020, the network posted an announcement to the CreamHeroes channel, claiming that both the channel and four of the seven cats are and always have been company-property, with Claire only being an employee of the company.
On 22nd of March 2020, Claire posted a rebuttal of the claims to her personal "Butler" account, refuting or contesting most claims made by the network. She cited largely scaled withholding of funds earned through AdSense and merchandise by the network as well as the fact that she used to work for the company for a time, even filling in as CEO as the company ran into money troubles and was about to go bankrupt. In her position as CEO, she had created the channel CreamHeroes and began uploading to it. The exact nature of the channel ownership remains disputed and seems to be heading for litigation. She also announced that videos of the cats would continue to be uploaded to her "Butler" channel (new main channel in Korean) and the Kittisaurus channel (designated international channel without speech, having English in-video subtitles for cat-expressions).
Following the video and community posts, the CreamHeroes channel lost around 300,000 subscribers in twelve days, from 3.87M subscribers on 19th of March 2020 to 3.57M subscribers on 31st of March 2020. Simultaneously, the Butler channel gained around 460,000 subscribers, raising from roughly 120,000 subscribers to 560,000 by the 31st of March 2020. Kittisaurus channel gained 300,000 subscribers, raising the subscriber count from 1.28M to 1.58M in the same timeframe.
In August 2020 Claire posted on her personal Youtube account's community tab that she had regained access to the CreamHeroes channel, and would be posting to it again after taking a little time to get it in order. A few days later, CreamHeroes was re-launched, with a video and a live-stream closely. As of now, the channel is now regular again, though it is not her main channel now.
However in 2021 the channel was taken away from her again, and it began uploading videos of someone else and their cats, MeowDiary[1]. The channel deleted comments asking/commenting about Claire, though it re-uploaded old clips of her cats. Now Claire exclusively uploads on Claire Luvcat and Kittisaurus. Her DD store was taken from her too.
Quotes[]
- "Woah! DD, an intellectual?"[2]
Awards[]
On November 6, 2022, she received the Grand Prize in the Content Category at the 2022 Korea Pet Culture Award.[3]
Personal life[]
She was born and raised in South Korea, though she attended school in Japan.[4]
She has an older brother and a younger sister. Her younger sister went to the United States for her studies.[5]
Trivia[]
- Claire is a BTS fan and bought the McDonalds BTS meal.[6]
- In July of 2021 she moved houses.
- She speaks Korean and Japanese. She also has some knowledge of English.[7]
- Even Korean politicians watch Claire's videos. In January 2022, two representatives of politician Lee Jae-myung came to her house and they had a discussion about cats[8].
- Claire reads manga.[9]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n9q44d0B7E
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- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7llYYmAE1U?t=37
- ↑ https://youtu.be/c7llYYmAE1U?t=41
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moI1OQmtGiU
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvSLzo5XWA&t=54s
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv6eZnqajis
- ↑ https://youtu.be/MWzezPtwEnc?t=231