The Exploration Era
The Exploration Era is the current era in the Hello Street Cat community. In this era, new feeders are searched and documented. This era officially started on March 10th, 2024, and is still ongoing. This era came after the Brother Fresh's Last Day era and before the next era.
Start
This era started slowly, shortly after Mr. Fresh’s official adoption. People were wondering about the future of Hello Street Cat and were waiting for something to be interested in after Mr. Fresh departed. This is when they started searching around the Duck Feeder. They looked into it and found a lot of interesting information about it, slowly making pages and getting interested about the cats being found there. This started happening with more and more previously unknown feeders. This still continues, and is likely to for the foreseeable future, considering the sheer number of feeders.
Middle
The Search for Brother Calm
After the initial interest in the Duck feeder started, people felt overwhelmed by all the new cats being found. The community calmed down for a while until people in the Discord started thinking about how Brother Calm's feeder is unknown. The community decided to start a search. After checking many feeders and documenting the closest ones, they did not find anything. The search is still ongoing.
Luckily, a lot of other feeders for other lost feeders have been found in this time. (i.e Mr. Shock’s feeder, Mr. Despair’s feeder, Mr. Excavator's feeder.)
The Google Translated Feeder names
With people searching for Brother Calm, they started to realize that when they translated the feeder names to English, the translator gave some questionable and funny results. People kept searching and finding new feeders with funny names to enjoy and explored more feeders through this. The search for funny feeder names continues.
Yahiamice's video
On May 2, 2024, the Moroccan youtuber “Yahiamice” would make a video which is a shortened version of his stream VOD published on March 24, 2024, were he messed around with the wiki and meow.camera. This video is probably the most popular non-meme HelloStreetCat video and is one of the most viewed videos on his channel. This would give a lot of popularity to the website and wiki, apart from having Boo renamed multiple times.
The TGB exodus
On May 9, 2024, The Gluttonous Beast would appear for the last time in the feeder, which left his admirers heartbroken and confused. It is theorized the culprit behind his exile was Mrs. Kirby due to her constant bullying.
Mr. Snack’s adoption
Due to Mr. Snack having an injury in his ear, he was taken to be treated and later adopted. This would be an important event in this era, but unlike Mr. Fresh, this did not mark the end as it didn’t change the English or Chinese community significantly.
The 2024 Summer Kitten Explosion
This special event happened in June & July when a rise in kittens was discovered. Sometimes these kittens were abandoned (some were adopted by other cats, although very rarely). Some examples of this would be Pinto and Bean. Fortunately, a lot were raised by their mothers, such as Mrs. Island (off-camera), Mr. Sun, and Bob.
The 2024 Happy Canteen famine
The 2024 famine struck the Happy Canteen feeder on the 6th of June causing there to be not a single snack crumb for 15 hours. During this time the unfortunate soul of Ms. Puke waited an entire hour but to her dismay, there was no kibble to puke. [1]
Mr. Turkey's TNR and great escape
- The TNR:
As Mr. Turkey developed stomatitis, a Trap was set in the Happy Canteen to be able to catch and cure him. He entered the trap on the 18th of July and was taken by HSC’s personnel at 3:15 AM (LFT). He stayed in the adoption center for a few days until…
- The escape:
Turkey decided to do something legendary on the 26th of August and escape the center, he went on to do an impressive walk to the Happy Canteen/Auspicious Restaurant park which would take 1 hour to drive to from his adoption center. He made his return on the 31st of August, visiting various feeders of the park, and doing his now iconic funny faces until he was adopted sometime before September 16th
The Return of Famine
On October 9, 2024, Happy Canteen was once again struck with famine. With no kibble left and barely any snacks, the cats had to resolve to eating the small leftover pieces of kibble, with some even licking the feeder clean. Eventually, both the kibble and snacks were restocked at sometime during the late afternoon and the cats went right back to feasting.
End
There doesn't seem to be any near end to this era any time soon, with a large variety of feeders to explore. People are excited to see the future of this era and what comes out of it.