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Shoosh all you \u201cSavage\u201d dancers. After nights of trawling the virtual vortex that is TikTok \u2013 and zooming past those attempts at Megan Thee Stallion\u2019s viral hit \u2013 we have sourced the coolest cat on the video-sharing platform: a young woman impersonating Carole Baskin.<\/p>\n
Some background: Baskin \u2013 the fierce rival to roadside zookeeper and patterned shirt enthusiast Joe Exotic \u2013 is an animal activist who probably killed her former husband. (By way of \u201cwhacking\u201d him and \u201cfeeding him to the tigers\u201d if you believe a popular novelty track doing the rounds on TikTok). Baskin has denied such accusations and she and Joe play stars to Netflix\u2019s isolation sensation series Tiger King<\/em>.<\/p>\n The 58-year-old owner of Big Cat Rescue, a non-profit animal sanctuary based in Florida, has some funny little tendencies. For starters, she calls her online followers \u201ccool cats and kittens,\u201d has a higher-pitched little nana voice and smirks and laughs when show producers ask her about the disappearance of her husband as if to show how outlandish the claims really are. (Note: the notion that Baskin fed her ex-husband\u2019s body to the cats is merely a rumor.)<\/p>\n At the same time that Joe Exotic became a household name, TikTok too became the latest pandemic success. And thus came the Baskin impersonations. There were many. There were too many. But none quite as accurate as a woman named Katie Balen, an animated little spirited woman who lives in either Los Angeles or New York (I can\u2019t quite work it out!). Anyway, here is her Carole Baskin best. Follow Katie @kbalen<\/a> on TikTok \u2013 and if you do attempt a Baskin impression of your own, please let Katie school you in the tongue.<\/p>\n Tiger King<\/em> is streaming now on Netflix.<\/span><\/p>\n Before all this #tigerking<\/a> hype dies down #carolbaskin<\/a> #netflix<\/a> #impressions<\/a> #foryou<\/a><\/p>\n \u266c original sound – Katie Balen<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n \n