He posted the eight-second clip to TikTok late on July 26 under the profile “rachelthecatlovers.” The caption read: “Just checked the home security cam and … I think we’ve got guest performers out back!” The internet did the rest. Over the next few weeks, it was viewed 237 million times (roughly double the live audience of the Super Bowl). Thousands of armchair sleuths took to the comments section to debate its authenticity and the improbable physics of how six bunnies suddenly became five. Kosovskiy watched it all with a sense that monumental change was coming for Hollywood. “This is just a starting point,” he says. “I think of this like the Industrial Revolution. It’s democratizing creation.”