**LONDON** — In What Internet Sleuths Are Calling “The Matrix’s Most Obvious Caching Error Yet,” Footage From **Charles Spencer’s** Daughter’s Wedding Has Reportedly Glitched, Momentarily Replacing the Groom With a **Cat**.

LONDON — In what internet sleuths are calling “the Matrix’s most obvious caching error yet,” footage from Charles Spencer’s daughter’s wedding has reportedly glitched, momentarily replacing the groom with a cat.

Astute viewers of the Earl Spencer’s Instagram live-stream of Lady Kitty Spencer’s 2021 nuptials to billionaire Michael Lewis noticed the anomaly* this week after a viral TikTok edit highlighted a single, jarring frame. For exactly 0.033 seconds, the groom—dressed in a dark Armani tuxedo—appears to flicker into the digital likeness of a marmalade tabby named Mr. Jarman.

“The metadata is a dead giveaway,” claims data analyst “Gl1tch_Wytch” in a spiraling thread. “The timestamp on that specific frame has an extra timestamp: ‘ASSET_ID: CHARLES_SPENCER_CAT_JARMAN_BETA.’ It’s like the simulation accidentally rendered the backup file name.”

Conspiracy theorists are in overdrive, pointing to an eerie 2017 quote from the 9th Earl Spencer: “If I could replace all my in-laws with cats, I would have perfect weekends.” The Earl’s office has not commented on the “glitch,” but a source claims the family’s private server logs show a “paw print” clicked the ‘merge layers’ command.

Is this a sign we’re living in a simulation—or just proof that a feline guest named Jarman tried to swipe the wedding ring and accidentally got edited into the history books? Either way, the internet has a new groom: Mr. Jarman the Cat. The divorce rate for feline-human marriages remains zero percent.