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The specific context of 2021 cannot be ignored. It was a heavy year for the world. For someone like Makoto Oya, who deals with the heavy lifting of medical engineering and human mobility, the cats likely represented a necessary counterbalance—a return to simplicity.

The double- in the search query, therefore, acts as a filter for this exact era—the Goldilocks period of cat video production.

There is no record of legitimate or new "Makoto Oya cat videos" from 2021; searches for this term typically lead back to archives or discussions of his original crimes or similar graphic animal cruelty reports from that period.

Suddenly, Makoto’s phone began to buzz.

: A platform that has tracked the Oya case and legal responses.