#bonsaikitten
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #bonsaikitten from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:06 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:06 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:06 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 14 public posts (spanning ~30602 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 09:00
Languages: German (10) · English (4)
Avg boosts / post: 0.3
Top of the latest posts
Mistodon: @MC.Fresher graces us with an animated #textmode Unicode loop celebrating an old cruel web hoax, MIT's #BonsaiKitten, circa 2000. This piece was included in last month's #cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.
@dianea #BonsaiKitten ❤️
@Zita Kennt hier noch jemand #BonsaiKitten ? Daran erinnert mich das. 😂
What “bonsaikitten” means
WikipediaBonsaiKitten.com was a hoax shock site that claimed to raise kittens in jars, so as to mold the bones of the kitten into the shape of the jar as the cat grows, similarly to a bonsai plant. It was launched in 2000 by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student under the alias of Dr. Michael Wong Chang. Many people believed that the black comedy website was serious, and filed complaints to animal rights organizations and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI and several other o
“Bonsai Kitten” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#bonsaikitten across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #bonsaikitten straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/bonsaikitten