
Click on the "preferences" option, or on the small upward facing arrow below a Zoom chat, and choose video preferences. Zoom itself contains built-in filters, but they won't change your entire face into a feline.

If you want to show up to your next all-staff as a cat, but don't own a Dell laptop from the '90s, you have options. Ponton told VICE that the court case took place on his secretary's laptop, and it's unclear why the kitten decided it wanted its moment in the sun. According to the BBC, the filter used to produce the viral alarmed cat is a decades-old feature of Dell's webcam software, and doesn't look as if it's produced any more (though app developers are probably on the case as we speak). The bad news is that if you want Ponton's exact cat filter, you may need some very old software. Understandably, whether through solidarity or mischief, a lot of people now want to get the lawyer's cat filter for their own Zooms. His worried statement to the judge - "I'm not a cat" - is now a rallying cry to all people who've suffered technological fails in meetings throughout the pandemic. It was the cat filter seen around the world: Texas lawyer Rod Ponton haplessly trying to appear in a virtual courtroom while his Zoom showed a morose kitten instead of his face.
