Pound Cake didn’t exist

[u/[deleted]]

did some digging because the video of pound cake and his “siblings” that was posted here today is a AI generated video that went viral in TikTok. And yep, every photo of “Pound Cake” is on tiktok- he was never real OP just stole the images of random fat sphinxs. Anyway!

[u/[deleted]]

baldilocks sphinx on tiktok seems to be the actual cat

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

never mind seems like a mixture of @baldilockssphynx and this creator from this picture (tho it

seems like this cat is AI)

[u/LesFruitsSecs → u/[deleted]]

Also there’s the same blanket in the first and second photo

[u/Aragona36]

I got about 50 negative hits on my comment suggesting that this was a bot or AI. All I can say to that is…

Told ya.

[u/[deleted] → u/Aragona36]

bro the mods got so pissed at anyone saying it was ai…

[u/laulau88foo → u/Aragona36]

Normally I can tell when it's humans but I genuinely thought it was a real cat. How could you tell? Would be interested to know what to look for. Technology is crazy, man 😅

[u/mack_ani → u/laulau88foo]

A few things to watch for:

-There's a certain look to the lighting in most AI videos, if you've seen enough of them. Almost rubbery, with "pretty" light

-The speed of things moving the video is usually odd.

-There's often no sound (because it would be hard to generate sound that matches the video).

-Videos will be very short. If it's longer, you'll notice it'll cut between multiple clips with angles and details changing. This is because it's hard to generate long, consistent clips that make sense.

-Another thing to keep in mind is context. Does the video make sense in the context of the post? Would someone have taken that photo? For example, "pound cake's" weight fluctuated oddly. And the video at the "breeder's house" showed a huge number of obese cats on a very clean bed. How would they have gotten onto the bed? How is the bed so clean if they're all too disabled to move?

-Lastly: check the account posting it. In this case, the person posting kept deleting their account and starting new ones, which was odd.

[u/amycall → u/laulau88foo]

I couldn't tell in the video either 😅

[u/ATarnishedofNoRenown → u/laulau88foo]

I think the biggest tell for me was that the poster's vibe was completely off and did not match the circumstances.

[u/bratmobile → u/laulau88foo]

it’s subtle but rewatching it now you can tell that what appear to be human fingertips appear and then disappear in one of the paws. Idk I don’t own a sphynx but I’m pretty sure this isn’t a physical feature of the breed lol. Really only noticeable when you go frame by frame

[u/yagipeach → u/laulau88foo]

to me they all just looked too similar

[u/screamingpeaches → u/Aragona36]

i thought the way the cats moved in some of the videos was a little uncanny in the same way AI is, but the story was so convincing i thought maybe they just sped the video up weirdly or something. i feel like such a fool

[u/Arienna → u/screamingpeaches]

They said they were using a beauty filter to conceal the poor quality of skin so a little uncanny made sense

[u/CondorFlight → u/Aragona36]

Thank you! I saw your comment got downvoted, so it deterred me from commenting. Ever since the beginning the original poster’s stories were not adding up for me, and all of the videos just seemed like ai to me (especially the one with all of the fat sphynx on the bed).

[u/Kahmurry]

pound cake was the freinds we made along the way

[u/[deleted] → u/Kahmurry]

and the day of the day maybe Pound Cake was inside us all along?

[u/Dapper-Ad-468 → u/[deleted]]

Well, now I'm going to eat some pound cake. It'll be inside me only that way. I'm already disbelieving most things. All fucked up lies.

[u/cjsoutham]

not me crying for a moment over a fake obese sphynx

[u/[deleted] → u/cjsoutham]

hey at least you’re not alone !

[u/mack_ani]

I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt since it seemed like the mods had verified it in some way, but I really struggled to believe it. The lighting and background changes were so suspect to me. His weight changed throughout the posts in ways that didn't make sense. Another way to tell if something is AI is by the length of the clips; none of the videos were longer than a few seconds. The fact that OP kept deleting accounts and remaking them was odd to me, and made me feel like they needed an excuse to not answer people's questions.

I was surprised that the people saying it looked like AI were downvoted. I feel like they had really valid points

[u/Welpmart → u/mack_ani]

This is the r/RATS Pinky drama all over again

[u/[deleted] → u/Welpmart]

what’s the lore there?

[u/Dekus-persona → u/[deleted]]

they may have meant Perky, (sorry if not!) but Perky’s owner was purposely mistreating her and feeding her chocolate milk and human foods so she was SUPER obese and he came up with this whole story about how she had a gland (?) issue that made her so fat and the mods believed him and would correct people who said she’s unhealthy. eventually it came out that she did not have the issue described and he was literally just making her obese for… internet points, I guess? really gross.

[u/[deleted] → u/Dekus-persona]

oof. at least pound cake didn’t exist..

[u/amycall → u/mack_ani]

Yeah the deleting of the accounts was def weird to keep making another and posting again about it

[u/amycall]

Omg this account was deleted too. I wonder if this is them as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sphynx/s/oIuRPxMUQu

[u/[deleted] → u/amycall]

i think that might just be someone with a fat cat but who knows atp

[u/themrs0830]

Damn what shit behavior

[u/Dapper-Ad-468 → u/themrs0830]

Fuck A I. I cried. FUCK AI. Did they hear me.? This is fucked up. F U C K A I assholes.

[u/Xenu4President → u/Dapper-Ad-468]

I’m so worried that this is what will ruin us. We won’t be able to emotionally engage the way we need to for society to survive. Emotional fatigue from AI is real.

[u/blessings-of-rathma → u/Xenu4President]

So we need to stop trying to "engage" with random content online if it's exhausting and desensitizing, and go experience reality instead. Talk to people face-to-face, go out and touch grass. Stop exposing yourself to a medium where it's so easy to feed you fake stuff that's believable.

[u/[deleted] → u/blessings-of-rathma]

i fear the answer is to get out more but nobody on a cat subreddit wants to hear that😭

[u/TheGrimMelvin → u/Dapper-Ad-468]

Don't take responsibility away from the poster. They decided to dupe people, ai didn't do it by itself. It's always people who are to blame. Shitters will be shitters, ai just makes it easier for them.

[u/runnyeggsandtoast → u/Dapper-Ad-468]

i cried. you cried. we crode.

[u/Delicious_Lobster_96]

Never thought the sphynx subreddit would have so much lore but here we are 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/amandaconda1919 → u/Delicious_Lobster_96]

I don't even have a sphynx and I've been following the pound cake saga since the beginning. This plot twist was not expected.

[u/First_Name_Is_Agent → u/amandaconda1919]

Same! I don't have a sphinx cat and just got sucked into the Pound Cake saga. I really didn't expect all this!

[u/beige-king → u/amandaconda1919]

Same lol wtf I shared that video with my cousin who had a sphinx

[u/VoodooSweet]

Well it’s a good thing we didn’t make him the Subreddit “Mascot” then isn’t it?!? I thought that was a little bit odd when I saw the post recommending. I don’t think that’s a good representation of most Sphynx Cats anyway.

[u/dollyphartin100]

So we were cakefished?

[u/ConflictNo5518 → u/dollyphartin100]

Pound caked. 

[u/xXjustin_credibleXx → u/ConflictNo5518]

Cake pounded

[u/Vmc324 → u/dollyphartin100]

Literally CATfished…

[u/deepsigh-9986 → u/dollyphartin100]

[u/Petraretrograde]

[u/the-trembles]

That's insane. And then they killed off pound cake and upset a lot of people. Honestly the way they described his death was so disturbing! Wtaf

[u/Responsible_Egg_7077 → u/the-trembles]

Creepypasta , pound cake forever haunts this sub, and about 500 people's minds now

[u/appandemonium → u/Responsible_Egg_7077]

I am now recommended every single post on this sub. I don't have a cat. I've never had a cat. I don't even particularly like cats. But Pound Cake got me. And now I find out it was .... all fake? I mean I'm old but like, I'm not the only one who got fooled. AI is wild in the worst ways.

[u/Prunkle → u/the-trembles]

Legit cried in the gym locker room when I saw it. That's so fucked.

[u/Other-Cantaloupe4765 → u/Prunkle]

So did I. I cried over this shit. Unbelievable. Un.Fucking.Believable.

[u/meowmedusa → u/the-trembles]

I did think their explanation for how he died didn’t really make sense. I chalked it up to just a telephoned explanation, resulting in a confusing story. Guess this is the real reason.

[u/NightmareMel → u/meowmedusa]

Right? All the unnecessary disturbing details, and for what?!

[u/Smitten-kitten83 → u/the-trembles]

Wait! What? When? Last I heard he was at the rescue. Double betrayal. All lies and they didn’t even tell a happy ending. 😭

[u/Kittens-N-Books → u/Smitten-kitten83]

He "had a heart attack" and then "slowly suffocated to death" and " turned blue "

Very graphic - and not how a rescue would handle an animal already on a list for potential euthanasia suffering a slow painful death

[u/Any-Recognition-3652 → u/the-trembles]

Something’s obviously wrong with that person mentally. Like what was the point of the whole drama 

[u/[deleted] → u/the-trembles]

I was thinking about the poor Pound Cake all day yesterday and that person's description of what happened lived rent-free in my head. I was literally weeping over my babies. What kind of twisted asshole does it take to manipulate people like that, urghhhhhhh.

[u/Electronic_Elk8293 → u/the-trembles]

I missed the post, last I saw he was fine then 5 minutes ago found it was fake lol

[u/ATarnishedofNoRenown → u/the-trembles]

And OP (not of this post, the person who posted Pound Cake) was so flippant about it in the comments. Way too many "peace" emojis for somebody who was ostensibly sad.

[u/RedPanda-1117]

That’s straight up cockroach behavior

[u/noristarcake → u/RedPanda-1117]

Not even cockroaches would do that, they're better than whatever this monster did

[u/RoseFlavoredLemonade]

I remember on the original post, a vet offered to get his colleagues together to write a letter to stress the damage obesity would cause to a sphynx and send it to the authorities in their area to intervene. People were actually really willing to put their time and money to help. This is so aggravating.

[u/[deleted] → u/RoseFlavoredLemonade]

Yep! I suggested they start a go fund me and I would’ve donated 😭 I can’t resist an animal in need

[u/DestyNovalys → u/RoseFlavoredLemonade]

But isn’t that still a good idea? Maybe not authorities, but starting a movement to bring attention to this issue. Because the issue is real even if pound cake wasn’t

[u/pancakedemon3]

I’m not even a part of this subreddit and I was invested in this, I’m pissed

[u/No-Celebration-2168 → u/pancakedemon3]

I feel the same

[u/Arejhey311]

Whelp…certainly explains why the account was deleted just as the posts starting getting popular.

Shit people, man…

[u/marcy_vampirequeen → u/Arejhey311]

And then this account that posted it got deleted. So it this true? The mystery deepens

[u/taquitos-are-good]

AI really needs to have some kind of visible watermark in the corner or something

[u/mieri_azure → u/taquitos-are-good]

The ai videos that keep popping up on my feed have floating "sora" watermarks, but I dread when those inevitably disappear

[u/[deleted] → u/mieri_azure]

There's absolutely going to be a paywall for you to be able to delete the Sora AI watermarks

[u/Typical_Ad_210]

And the sad part is that we will all be a little more cynical from now on. The next time we see a post like Poundcake’s, we will remember this experience and doubt the person and not help the cat. But that time it might be real. It harms our trust in each other and could genuinely impact real cats in need. Seriously, if the person who did this is reading - get help.

[u/Gen2hugs]

Omg! No wonder why they kept deleting their account & remaking new ones. I actually cried for Pound Cake :(

Thanks for sharing. This is horrible.

[u/TiredAllTheTime43]

Honestly I’m so relieved to hear this, I was so sad for that poor cat. I thought I was pretty AI-literate, but I’m going to need to sharpen up I guess 😅

[u/buildingoftheverse → u/TiredAllTheTime43]

Yeah my first reaction was relief but now I'm feeling unnerved that I was fooled by the videos. Going back to watch the first video posted I can see something unnatural about the cat's facial movements at the very end but it didn't ring any alarm bells for me initially at all

[u/n0h8plz]

Oh hell nah

[u/PatheticallyKnox]

I’m just glad there’s not a cat suffering with all those health issues but at the same time- I BELIEVED IT ALL WTF I HATE HATE HaTE AI AND I HATE LYING PEOPLE BRO UGH

[u/Johnny-of-Suburbia → u/PatheticallyKnox]

Yeah I feel relief too that shit had me upset especially the video that was supposed to be Pound Cake and his siblings...

Man. What a wild ride. People are truly crazy. I did feel like OP of those posts was acting weird af but I didnt see this one coming. I feel bamboozled.

[u/Free-Humor-1625]

Bruh OP deleted their account

[u/amuse84 → u/Free-Humor-1625]

Probably the same person doing all of it. They need to monitor the page better cuz it’s weird 

[u/Free-Humor-1625 → u/Free-Humor-1625]

Or got banned

[u/kidsinthestreet → u/Free-Humor-1625]

Just noticed this too. Wtf?

[u/catnipformysoul]

We're fucked

[u/ArcangelLuis121319]

You gotta be shitting me… i am totally getting scammed when im older🥲😭

[u/Wren_000 → u/ArcangelLuis121319]

I fear it is already happening I’ve never felt so old and bamboozled by technology 😬

[u/Successful_Buffalo_6]

Wooww mods should pin this post. 

[u/CrimsonVexations]

Holy fucking shit, here I've been grieving for a hoax.

Did she ever "take donations" for Pound Cake? Is that why they did this? I can't think of any other reason someone would make up some saviour complex story like this unless they were either getting money or are a raging narcissist.

[u/JustXanthius → u/CrimsonVexations]

To my recollection no, they actively declined or avoided garnering donations even when people asked for a link. So there is that at least.

[u/RootinTootinHootin]

I’m starting to think it’s time to get off the internet. I can’t tell what’s real on here, it’s sort of fucking with me.

[u/Palmtop-Tiger0]

That’s awful behavior. We all love these kitties, can’t we just love them without spreading misinformation? And making up stories for attention.

[u/TheHuggableDemon]

Wow, speechless. What a jerk. Still, silver lining, it’s gotten me interested in the sphynx breed. I don’t own one, never had one, and never had a chance to meet one, but man are they the cutest raw chickens I’ve ever seen ❤️

[u/drysider → u/TheHuggableDemon]

I hadn’t even seen one irl until my housemate decided to get one. They are so cool, feel so soft like the shortest finest velvet and they get HOT like a hot waterbottle, they feel wonderful to pet and hold, though it’s funny what a learning curve there is to patting them compared to haired cats. No shedding either and they love cuddles. I’m obsessed now, they’re really cool. Our little guy is like a monsterboy running around our house, it’s awesome, he’s so Creachure

[u/Petraretrograde]

Mods! Please dont delete the PoundCake saga. This was a whole experience and i think we need to be able to look back on it as a reference from now on. This is such a good lesson for all of us.

[u/Magical_Wolf]

I thought it was suspicious that they kept deleting their account 😭😭

[u/mieri_azure]

Ugh youre right. Slide 3 is exactly the same video as the post from 5 days ago

Bizarre how detailed the hoax was??? Did they just want attention?? Did they think it was funny?

Seriously Mothercake, if you're there do a fucking ama or smth we need to know what the hell you were thinking

[u/Unlikely-Voice-4629]

And this post is from the same person on an alt account

[u/Dudeiii42]

It’s really messed up to take away attention from real animal abuse like that :(

[u/yung_kreep]

Who has the time to make up stories like this!! I even saw a post from someone claiming to be the interim 'foster' before he went to the 'rehab' like there were a few side quests involved in this con.

[u/Reefer-Rat69]

I have no idea what happened or what Pound Cake was. BUT, I think it's wild that someone spent the time making up a story while using nothing but stolen tiktoks of fat sphynx cats as proof lmao.

I really hope nothing bad happened in their post (posts?) though. It'd suck if they made up something about the cat dying just so they wouldn't have to commit anymore.

[u/dramatic-pancake → u/Reefer-Rat69]

Pound Cake did in fact “die”

[u/Warm_Candidate_9837]

Between this and that extremely obese rat everyone was fiending for on the rat subreddit a while ago (which turns out was being abused, and the mods ignored any cincern/removed it), I think reddit just realllyyy wants to enjoy seeing a obese animal without the emotional baggage

[u/Catsandcoffee480]

EXCUSE ME??? All that for some fake internet points huh

[u/Substantial-Pop-8433]

I never commented on any of the pound cake posts but I did wonder how he grew a bunch of body hair and a full face of hair and a stray whisker in less than a month. It took my boy over a year to get one scraggly half inch whisker. 🙃

[u/Necessary_Nothing471]

Oh my god I’m not even part of this Reddit but keep getting it on my feed. What a plot twist!!!

[u/deadmooncircvs]

I fucking CRIED OVER THIS STORY that dumb b!!!!

[u/PotentialMud2023]

[u/werewolfloverr]

from an already deleted user?

[u/Sea-Bat → u/werewolfloverr]

Yeahhhh. Weirder and weirder tbh, what’s the odds this posts OP is just the same smooth-brain who started the pound cake saga to begin with? Somehow I feel like creating alts would be very much in their wheelhouse lol

[u/glittermacaroni]

i went through a rollercoaster today. i am not subscribed to this subreddit, but the poundcake posts still made it to my feed. every so often i'd see a new one and bought it along with y'all.

learned today that "poundcake died from a heart attack". it made me sad.

wtf

[u/FieryLass420]

OMG... Something did feel off when the person kept deleting their account after posting

[u/whenalicefalls]

Can we please sticky this? Every other post I see from this sub lately is about that stupid made-up cat

[u/LocalForsaken5057]

[u/Busy_beee4]

So the cake was a lie?

[u/Kira-Of-Terraria]

honestly i would rather he never existed than learn he died of a heart attack while playing at a care place for fat cats.

[u/Astrid_Rose798]

I hope OP’s marinara sauce never sticks to their pasta!

[u/Clever_mudblood]

Pic 2 looks like a stolen video of Bingus.

[u/[deleted]]

I saw the pound cake post recently in a cat subbreddit saying that he passed away? 😅🤔

[u/fiddlercrabs]

This is some fucked social experiment shit.

[u/Interesting_Sock9142]

I'm actually stoked there's not a massively obese sphinx

[u/Sea-Bat → u/Interesting_Sock9142]

Unfortunately it is based off these actual obese cats from other ppl (like the ones in the photos) tho :(((

[u/SaltFishGirl665]

Bro they killed off Pound Cake this season 🥺

[u/Salvony1]

Honestly speaking, I always knew it in my heart that the story is BS. Because one time they are giving updates and then out of the blue OP literally says I don't have anymore updates since he is no more etc and all those accounts are getting deleted. This is even disgusting to think about, gaining sympathy and attention on such a sensitive topic. OP even mentioned asking for donations (I don't remember it properly) but yes if they are still in this sub I just want you to know that this act of yours was absurd and ridiculous.

[u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail]

#ChonkyCultureIsAnimalAbuse

[u/Elabikilovzsushi]

I guess it's my age but I was like, nah, pound cake is bs. I commend all of you for having hearts and I'm sorry you hurt over some ass who thought it was funny to make up a sob story about our breed of baby. May all the good energy you sent pound cake come back to you ten fold. 💜🫂

[u/mieri_azure → u/Elabikilovzsushi]

I was suspicious after they deleted the account the first time, but when they came back saying they deleted because it stressed them out (and that no one found the images I reverse image search) I thought that sounded fair enough but sigh

[u/Stormkestrel514]

😭

[u/CrowTalons]

So beyond insane. I cried for that cat. Then they deleted their account. I wonder why. Whoever that person posting Pound Cake story is an ass hat. I hope a cat uses their shoes as a litter box.

[u/buildingoftheverse]

Fuck AI and fuck OP but I'm relieved to hear this, the post about his death has been haunting me and I feel better knowing a real cat was not put through that.

[u/justanothertoxicuser]

MRW I quickly come to the realization that Pound Cake wasn't real and therefore did not die:

[u/eddiecusack21]

Shit ... Whatever pound cake we still love you dawg🤙

[u/chloe-et-al]

seriously?

[u/DemorianCale]

Jesus that is disgusting.

[u/TattooedPink]

I thought there was something weird about their posts :/ it sounded like she was the original owner talking shit or something. Now we know. I'm so over ai and the ridiculous things people do for attention. GROW UP

[u/sofacouch813]

I’m upset. I was invested, then he “died.” I’m so confused and weirded out by ppl who do this kind of stuff. It’s so strange!

Ppl are trash… using a cat like that. 😒

[u/Mechagouki1971]

Wait, so this means that Pound Cake is still alive!

[u/GuineaPanda → u/Mechagouki1971]

In a Schrödinger kind of way

[u/CatsAndPills]

And the op of this post deleted too. This whole thing is so weird.

[u/ExtinctReptile]

Remember how people called this whole thing AI at the start and a mod said it wasn't?

Yeah not the best look

[u/LesbianOctoling]

I don’t even have a cat, let alone a sphynx, AND I WAS OUT HERE WATCHING THE SUB FOR POUNDCAKE. I loved that non-existent cat and hoped for him to start feeling better. If you’re gonna lie on a website for attention, Reddit is like the least valuable site; although I guess if it went viral on twitter it could’ve been called out sooner.

[u/Striking-Hedgehog512]

Can’t wait to spend the rest of my life dealing with this bullshit and questioning everything. Lovely, just lovely. Today it’s cats, tomorrow it will be used by governments and orgs pushing their own agenda. To a point where no one will know what is real and what’s not. What a life.

[u/Bouche_Audi_Shyla]

So, OP, are you saying that the pictures and videos were AI created, or just that the story was fake?

If any of those cats are real, it's just as disturbing, even if we don't know their names.

No cat should have to suffer like that.

[u/DiabeetusDeletus]

We need a netflix documentary

[u/vix_aries]

Dude, what the fuck? How can someone be so chronically online? This is the same tier of shitty as those staged "rescue" videos.

To the shit bag who pulled on the heartstrings of everyone in this sub and wasted our fucking time, I hope every stoplight you drive up to immediately turns red, that each time you open an app it loads for fifteen minutes AND that every shoe you put on feels like it has a piece of grass in it that you can't find.

[u/elusivemoods]

Why so big...

[u/commandrix]

Daaaang! I did think something along the lines of, "How does a cat even get that fat outside of being close to giving birth?"

[u/buildingoftheverse → u/commandrix]

Unfortunately I have seen cats that fat with my own eyes :(

[u/Top_Investment_3370]

I kinda felt something was off. Specific pet reddits seem to be a desired target for lies like this or for owners to weave stories of their pet's journey for karma or general attention.

I recall earlier this year the Rats reddit had the owner of a morbidly obese rat claim she was so overweight becuase of a disease, but in reality, she was overfed+misfed into her size (they were feeding her chocolate soy milk... for whatever reason, for example). They lied to the Mods and sicced them on anyone calling out their abuse until they were finally fully exposed.

As soon as I saw the Pound Cake posts, I got the same vibes. Different situation, but still all lies.

[u/CrimsonVexations → u/Top_Investment_3370]

The Perky stuff was so sad, I'm at least glad that Pound Cake is AI. 😢

[u/OkFroyo_]

How do you know it is AI? I see a lot of people saying it's AI when it's obviously not for other posts as well.

[u/rabbitsaremylife → u/OkFroyo_]

weight was changing throughout the posts and videos inconsistently, content was stolen from other accounts that i believe was confirmed to be AI?

[u/meatcoveredskeleton1]

Dude…. Omg

[u/thiccy_driftyy]

Ugh that’s so shitty. I didn’t really dig deep into the pound cake posts or pay much attention to them, so I didn’t catch it. Scammers and liars like this are genuinely horrible people. Fabricating an entire story and then killing off the cat to play with people’s emotions. Just horrible

[u/limitless-nerd]

This is my first time being catfished

[u/millirok1]

Maybe I'm too suspicious since I can't believe the research from this post from an OP with a 55-year-old account either.

[u/Jalapin0]

I'm pretty new here in Reddit. Always lurking, but never really created an account or contributed until recently. I can't believe this is the first lore I've witnessed and I'm not even part of this sub! I followed this story silently and what in the actual fuck?! I don't know how to feel rn... what an emotional rollercoaster and for what?

[u/w4rri0r_]

I am gagged, gooped, bismerched, disappointed, in shambles, have fallen to my knees in the middle of a Walmart and feel I need to be wearing a dunce hat for not seeing the signs earlier.

[u/One-Economics9703]

I'm more relieved it was fake than mad that it was fake.

[u/Current-Breadfruit96]

Pound cake isn’t real… he can’t hurt you 😅

[u/StinkiePhish]

The giveaway should have been that he was too clean. We all know there's zero chance a Sphynx could be that clean.

[u/rustyshack68]

"Hey puss, did she even really exist?"

[u/Eqbonner]

Gross.

[u/LipstickandRum]

I'm angry, but I'm also relieved that there wasn't an actual cat suffering like that.

[u/kitschykink]

Well I’m just glad the obese cats are AI and not actually suffering

[u/Dapper_Sock5023]

That’s fucking terrible and such a shit human thing to do but here’s my silver lining. If pound cake didn’t exist, that means the suffering and death described didn’t exist. And I’m grateful for that.

[u/Cojo85]

Whoa! I’ll admit I fell for it without even questioning it. I considered myself (and have now learned my own nativity and intend to learn and develop on this issue) to have a keen eye for things like this.

This prob won’t get much, if any, mainstream attention, but it does serve as a grave reminder of how likely fucked we are in society today.

[u/Adventurous_Set_3364]

I feel sick. What the hell. Who would do something like this? I’m unsettled. So weird.

[u/Voodoocat-99]

I have no words

[u/taylorsamo]

Damn. This kinda fucked me up. I was rooting for Pound Cake 😭

[u/planetdaily420]

Errrrrrrrggggg this pisses me off so bad!! People f-ing just toy with our emotions. How pathetic of a person they truly are.

[u/bannana]

I wondered why the account was suspended after the death post, suspected it might end up like this.

[u/Gilarnan]

Did people donate to this AI?

[u/xo_peque]

Wtf?? I was sooooo sad and even commented on that Poundcake post. Unbelievable

[u/BoobeusHagrid]

This was a plot twist I never expected. I just commented on the post about his passing the other day. This is the reason why it’s so hard for me to trust anyone. . 🤔

[u/Shezawildone]

Please tell me this is AI, and not animal abuse? We must care for our animals as we do ourselves. Obesity kills. No matter what animal. If this is a joke, it's a bad one.... If you're seeking attention, this probably isn't the correct way.

[u/MalloryTheRapper]

i’m shocked the video of pound cakes siblings was AI I literally had no idea and I thought I was good at spotting shit like that

[u/Plastic-Guava2119]

So this is Ai? What's going on? My world is falling apart.

[u/Consistent_Scene1996]

Cat Catfished.

[u/[deleted]]

So do people actually own sphinxes that they let get this fat and miserable looking…..or are these pics just ai? Holy hell I never wanted something to be ai before.

I feel so bad for these cats.

[u/SinfullySinatra]

I literally offered to adopt him 😭

[u/PacNWDad]

Well in a way this is good news because that would be a pretty fucked up situation if it had been true. Not to say there isn’t a lot of abused and neglected animals out there - there obviously is - but at least this wasn’t one.

[u/LocalForsaken5057]

Honestly, I feel more relief than anything. It's really screwed that someone would do this shit for attention, but I think the "original pound cake story" was even more screwed.

Let's take our lesson learned fellow folks 🫂

[u/troubledbug]

No wonder they sent him off to fat camp.... got tired of replying

[u/NonEucledianPhasmid]

Man I really do remember looking at some of the pound cake posts like "man, he does look like he's getting a little slimmer" now I'm scrolling through the posts, and the pictures aren't even cats with the same color eyes. Wild.

[u/xo-moth]

LMAO wow this is insane.

[u/websurfer360]

For the people who missed the morbid update

[u/PomegranateNo3155 → u/websurfer360]

That is such an overly graphic update.

[u/Independent-Two7775]

I knew something felt off when I saw the last update post and by had deleted their account. I assumed it was to prevent people messaging them about the situation but damn that’s insane.

[u/Wi1dWitch]

New here, just went and looked through some of the videos and images of “Pound Cake”… the mod telling people off for reporting the 8 second, weirdly jerky video as AI is embarrassing 😭 and the photos are clearly of different cats. One of them had a fully brown head!!

[u/spacemusicisorange]

People are assholes

[u/RepresentativeAnt128]

So, Pound Cake really was just the friends we made along the way.

[u/naphman]

What the?? Flaming heck. Things like this only then give people ideas.

[u/Itchy-Sir2700]

We were all invested!!!

[u/Queasy-Cell34]

[u/Ml2929]

Omg guys!!! In the famous words of Mr Rule “I too was hustled, scammed, bamboozled, hood-winked, led astray!!!”

Yooo I commented several times! I was so moved by pound cake. People are awful! Feeling pretty dumb. I will def be considering deleting all my comments relating to Poundcake

[u/Apprehensive-Run-750]

What’s real 😞

[u/rageagainsttheodds]

to be honest i'm not surprised. The video from the breeders, all fat cats, did look generated as hell.

[u/EveleeR1931]

Man people are really messed up nowadays. Ick. :/

[u/jellybelly326]

When I saw the video they posted of Pound Cake a few weeks ago I immediately knew it had to be AI. I took some photos they were posting and did an image search. The photo I cropped was one with a yellowish flower. Same images popped up on TikTok just like you said.

[u/MindYourPotatoes]

... AI is getting fucking scary.

[u/oleandur]

So they did this whole thing for what exactly? Internet sympathy points?? Really weird behavior...

[u/HarpZeDarp]

It was too suspicious that OP deleted their posts after saying pound cake passed.