A white cat in a mustard corduroy suit, ruffled shirt and burgundy tie, filming itself at night beside floodlit tennis courts and belting out the opening of Akon’s 2006 hit “I Wanna Love You”. That is the “I Wanna Love You” cat, one of TikTok’s most beloved AI pet clips of the autumn, with about 28.1 million plays on the original alone as read on November 14.
The 10-second clip was posted on October 1, 2026, by @novoreel, an account that makes AI pet videos, with a caption joking that the haters will call it autotune. The cat holds the phone out at arm’s length and sings along to Akon and Snoop Dogg’s 2006 chart-topper, and the whole thing is delivered with total, unbothered confidence. The same account followed up with an orange cat in a plaid suit doing a longer 19-second routine on October 4, and a black cat in a pink velvet jacket on October 5.
Sixty-three million views and counting
Across the original and its pet recasts, the trend has gathered an estimated 63 million views, as read in early November. Owners have been putting their own cats and dogs into the mustard suit ever since, and the format has proved forgiving: the suit, the tie and the night-time selfie do most of the work, whatever the pet.
The routine itself copies a viral video of a person doing the same night selfie a few days earlier, which is part of a wider pattern this autumn. AI pet clips have become a genre of their own, from dancing kittens to suited singers, and the “I Wanna Love You” cat sits near the top of the pile. The joke is simple and it lands every time: a cat, dressed better than most of us, singing a love song to its own reflection.
Why the mustard suit works
Part of the charm is the casting. A white cat against a dark tennis court, a mustard suit against a black night, a 2006 R&B classic against a 10-second clip. Nothing about it should work, and all of it does. As with the autumn’s other AI animal hits, creators are advised to label the clips as AI-generated, so nobody mistakes the performance for a real cat with real taste in tailoring.
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