Mom tells her son to "pick any animal he wants", and he chooses the oldest, shyest, chonkiest orange cat in the shelter and names him Tiny

The useful part

The internet is a fast-paced machine, churning out as much new content as possible every single day. Which is why, within all the new stories that come out and go viral, every once in a while, an old story goes viral too. when the world is full of so many fake stories, it's important to remember the old ones, the ones that we know are real.

How it works

• Of course, the person who posted this story on X last week didn't bother mentioning that it was an old one.
• People liked it and shared it just because it was wholesome, thinking that it was a new story.
• I, as someone who has been writing about cats for many years now, knew the original story.
• So I went on the hunt, looking for the original coverage, for more pictures, for updates, and of course, I found it all.
• This story originally came out around ten years ago, and there is a reason that it has stuck in people's memories, including mine.

What to take from it

It's one of those "stories that give you hope for humanity" kind of situations.

Details worth keeping

Within that chaos, the speed of everything, a lot of stories get lost. Every day, people post stories about their cats. Cats that they have rescued, cats they adopted, cats that adopted them.