Strange animated cat in place of webcam image

Solution 1:

This is actually a webcam effect from a program included with the person's webcam software. I think both Dell and HP (not limited to these, just an example) come with programs that allow that cat image, along with a variety of others, such as UFOs, mirror-imaging, border effects, and the like.

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