What happened in May 2024?
27 entries on the record for May 2024: Four days before launch: “guides the way to the moon”; Tsuki launches and posts a Roaring Kitty meme; Roaring Kitty comes back; “The first stage of its moon mission”; and more.
- 7 May 20242:20pm ET
Four days before launch: “guides the way to the moon”
On 7 May 2024 at 2:20pm ET, four days before launch, the Tsuki X account posted: “$TSUKI guides the way to the moon🌕”, describing a black cat named after the Roman goddess of the moon, Diana, with Tsuki meaning moon in Japanese.
- 11 May 20246:59pm ET
Tsuki launches and posts a Roaring Kitty meme
On 11 May 2024 at 6:59pm ET, the Tsuki X account (@tsukionsolana) posted a Roaring Kitty meme; Keith Gill returned to X 1 day, 1 hour and 1 minute later.
- 12 May 20248:00pm ET
Roaring Kitty comes back
On 12 May 2024 at 8:00pm ET, Roaring Kitty (Keith Gill) posted on X for the first time in three years: a drawing of a man leaning forward in a chair, no caption.
- 13 May 20242:20pm ET
“The first stage of its moon mission”
On 13 May 2024 at 2:20pm ET, the day after Roaring Kitty's return, Tsuki posted that $TSUKI had “successfully finished the first stage of it's moon mission and left earth. We are now reaching earth orbit.”
- 14 May 20245:31pm ET
The cat signal, and a date: 5/18/24
On 14 May 2024 at 5:31pm ET, Tsuki posted a still of Roaring Kitty's Dark Knight cat-signal video with the date 5/18/24; Roaring Kitty stopped posting on 18 May 2024.
- 14 May 20242:49pm ET
TICK TOCK: an hourglass on the moon
On 14 May 2024 at 2:49pm ET, Tsuki posted “TICK TOCK $TSUKI” with an hourglass standing on the moon, “TICK TOCK” written on the glass, the sand partly run, and Tsuki sitting beside it in a red headband.
- 15 May 20248:36am ET
TICK, then TOCK
On 15 May 2024, Tsuki posted “TICK” at 8:36am ET and “TOCK” at 8:42am ET, frames from The Prestige, 21 minutes after Roaring Kitty posted a clip from the same film.
- 15 May 20248:47am ET
The GameStop logo turns right way up, and the cat wears it
On 15 May 2024, Roaring Kitty posted a video at 8:45am ET in which the GameStop logo turns the right way up at 2:07, and at 8:47am ET Tsuki posted Diana wearing that logo over her crescent.
- 15 May 20245:08pm ET
Gladiator: “I will have my vengeance”
On 15 May 2024 at 5:08pm ET, Tsuki posted a 43-second clip with no caption from Gladiator (2000): Maximus takes off his helmet in the arena and names himself before the emperor, ending “And I will have my vengeance”.
- 16 May 20241:47pm ET
Two minutes behind, in higher resolution
On 16 May 2024, Roaring Kitty posted a clip ending on the word KITTY at 1:45pm ET, and Tsuki posted that final frame at 1:47pm ET, in higher resolution.
- 16 May 20248:01pm ET
One minute later, the frame from six seconds in
On 16 May 2024, Roaring Kitty posted a video at 8:00pm ET and Tsuki posted the frame from six seconds into it at 8:01pm ET.
- 17 May 20249:58am ET
“The eye isn't real”
On 17 May 2024 at 9:58am ET, Tsuki posted a clip opening on “The eye isn't real”, and minutes later Roaring Kitty posted a man blinking over and over.
- 17 May 202411:44am ET
Champagne glasses, an hour early
On 17 May 2024, Tsuki posted champagne glasses at 11:44am ET, and Roaring Kitty posted a Seinfeld clip full of champagne glasses at 12:45pm ET.
- 17 May 20242:45pm ET
“ What's in the box? ”
On 17 May 2024 at 2:45pm ET, Roaring Kitty posted a 20-second video with no caption: a man in a dark stockroom finds a red GameStop box that glows when he opens it, a VHS “PAUSE” counter runs, and the clip cuts to Se7en and Mills asking “What's in the box?” three times. Hidden in the audio of the paused section is the “Hang in there” kitten.
- 17 May 20242:30pm ET
The galaxy is on Orion's belt
On 17 May 2024 at 2:30pm ET, Roaring Kitty posted an edited Men in Black clip: the coroner reads the name on a cat's collar, the subtitle reads “DeepFuckingValue? That's a pretty name”, and the galaxy inside the collar's bell carries the GameStop logo.
- 18 May 20242:02pm ET
Roaring Kitty goes silent. Elon: “there are no coincidences”
On 18 May 2024, the date Tsuki had posted four days earlier, Roaring Kitty went silent; at 2:02pm ET that day Elon Musk posted “There are no coincidences”.
- 18 May 20243:36pm ET
The “R V2. RWA” video
On 18 May 2024 at 3:36pm ET, the day Roaring Kitty went silent, Tsuki posted the “R V2. RWA” video, five months before TheRoaringAI ($RWA) launched.
- 18 May 20248:02am ET
The hourglass empties, then “2 HRS”
On 18 May 2024 at 8:02am ET, the day Roaring Kitty went silent, Tsuki posted the hourglass from 14 May again with no caption: the same glass on the moon, the sand almost all in the bottom bulb, and Tsuki no longer beside it.
- 19 May 20243:37am ET
The uno reverse card
On 19 May 2024 at 3:37am ET, Tsuki posted an uno reverse card; 14 days later, on 2 June 2024 at 8:02pm ET, Roaring Kitty ended two weeks of silence with an uno reverse card.
- 19 May 202412:06am ET
“gravitational fluid dynamics”: Tick tik 1B
On 19 May 2024 at 12:06am ET, Tsuki posted “gravitational fluid dynamics” with a tower of hourglasses on the moon under a sign reading “Tick tik 1B”.
- 21 May 202412:31pm ET
Escape velocity, Gladiator again, and the Joker
On 21 May 2024, three days into Roaring Kitty's silence, Tsuki posted the formula for escape velocity, v = √(2GM/R), at 12:31pm ET, between a Gladiator arena clip captioned “DOG COINS” (3:23am) and a clip of the Joker laughing (2:47pm).
- 22 May 20243:16pm ET
The first hash
On 22 May 2024 at 3:16pm ET, Tsuki posted a 64-character string, “05695æe2e5277…”, under a pencil sketch, with a link to the “Conceptual Sketches” page of its website; the text behind it has never been revealed.
- 24 May 20245:55am ET
The Dark Knight: “the dawn is coming”
On 24 May 2024 at 5:55am ET, six days into Roaring Kitty's silence, Tsuki posted a 29-second clip with no caption from The Dark Knight (2008): Harvey Dent's press conference, “the night is darkest just before the dawn, and I promise you, the dawn is coming”.
- 24 May 20244:01pm ET
Toys“R”Us, with a power button
On 24 May 2024 at 4:01pm ET, Tsuki posted, with no caption, a Google result for Toys“R”Us (“Toys, Games, & More … C'mon, Let's Play!”) whose site icon is a power symbol (⏻).
- 25 May 20241:43am ET
The 1B flag, and the same code again
On 25 May 2024 at 1:43am ET, Tsuki posted again the 64-character string “05695æe2…” it first posted on 22 May, this time with two images of a flag reading “1B” beside an hourglass on the moon, one as a pencil sketch and one in colour.
- 27 May 20242:56pm ET
A message in glyphs
On 27 May 2024 at 2:56pm ET, Tsuki posted a message in glyphs reading “Distribution completed. Community strengthening. I will return once the next milestone is reached.”
- 27 May 20245:09am ET
v = sqrt(2 * g * 0.2 * h), then “ITS TIK TOK”
On 27 May 2024 at 5:09am ET, Tsuki posted “v = sqrt(2 * g * 0.2 * h)” over the tower of hourglasses from 19 May, now with a rocket crossing the sky; at 10:52am ET it posted “ITS TIK TOK NOT TICK TOCK ???”.
