The Insane History of the Warrior Cat Series

Im 30 years old and still reading about these damn cats

I forgot how crazy warrior cats sounds to non warrior cat readers 😭😭

The best thing that came out of being a Warrior Cats fan growing up is being able to tell people who have no knowledge of this series beyond "YA cat books for kids" the death of Tigerstar

Litteraly Game of Thrones as cats in later books for sure almost having Targaryen bloodlines

Cats rule all things. Why should the fantasy genre be any different?

I have memories of flattening the plants in my friend's front garden because that was my "nest"

Those close ups are the new covers, there was only maybe a tiny cat staring back at you sometimes in the 2000s.

nearly 20 years old and it’s like i have a soul tie to this series 😭 i wont be able to escape until the series ends and even then i’ll never be able to deny how much these books have impacted me

There's one about PANDAS? How can a bear that spends most of its time and energy digesting make any drama?

Even as an adult, this series has an iron grip on me and likely will for the rest of my life. Shoutout to warriors for being my clinical brain-worm 💕

A great breakdown of the series and fandom, i believe the reason for a specific app, is for the kids whose parents who don’t want their kids on a browser for safety reasons (aka the non ipad kids with parents who are actually cautious)

i’m 20 and i’m still in LOVE with these books, i still keep up to date with the newest releases although i prefer the writing style of the original couple arcs

I will never escape the fact that I got into tabletop roleplaying games because I was obsessed with the now-defunct WarriorCatsRPG forum. My favorite hobby as an adult got latched into my brain because I used to roleplay a cat on a forum.

Only got through the first three sagas of the book series. I was obsessed with these books as a kid.

The atheism thing actually makes sense to me, especially with Mothwing. She was so excited to be a medicine cat, and so nervous to meet StarClan. They didn't come to her. She found out her own brother faked the sign that made the clan believe she was destined to be a medicine cat. How could StarClan let that happen, if they were really there? Wouldn't they stop the evil and lying, or at the very least, tell Mothwing or their leader that she shouldn't be the medicine cat? I don't blame her for rejecting StarClan when they finally appear to her.

As someone who has read every piece of warriors media ever and indeed has a gold star, this was great.

Wait, a channel that doesn’t talk about Warrior Cats talking about Warrior cats? I’VE NEVER CLICKED IN A VIDEO SO FAST

When I was a kid, I read every book in the series at the time like 3x's over each. I learned to draw specifically for Warriors. I participated in RP forums and did the quizzes that gave you your warriors name and clan. When I was in elementary school, the principle banned "playing warrior cats" on the playground because kids were actually scratching and biting each other. SpottedLeaf was my favorite character and I'm still upset.

confession: I was obsessed with these books as a little kid, so much so I asked my mom to buy me yoga balls to ‘play’ with. In reality I wanted to attack said yoga balls like a cat, and I did once I obtained them. I pretended I was fire star and attacked the absolute sh!t out of them. Biting, clawing, pouncing, hissing, the whole 9 yards. The yoga balls would bounce back at me so it made it more immersive. There was a few times I even got injured by attacking them lmao. My mom caught me biting one and was extremely mad and a bit disturbed. That was strike one. I skipped straight to strike 3 when I popped one with me teeth, my beloved enemy cat balls were taken from me and deflated. IMO attacking yoga balls pretending you’re a cat is better then becoming a zombie to an IPad lol. At least I had an imagination

Warrior Cats is one of the franchises that I'd rather appreciate from afar [and avoid the dark side of the fandom as well], and I especially dislike how Squirrelflight was treated in the books. On a different note, I'd love to see you talk about Cosgrove Hall's rise and fall, they were so iconic in the UK and I feel like they could've even rivaled Disney and Hanna Barbera had ITV just gave them an actual chance. Will Vinton Studios also has a really bittersweet story, and Will himself deserved so much better. The documentary Claydream goes into details of his life, how he founded his studio, and how he lost everything no thanks to Phill and Travis Knight. Will Vinton Studios was turned into Laika, and Laika has had many controversies [OSHA violations as an example], that I don't think would've happened under Will's watch.