The short was removed from Derek Savage's YouTube channel only days after it was posted following a copyright strike by Jason Johnson (who plays Cool Cat). Johnson played Cool Cat for the majority of the footage used in the short, but Savage refused to credit him following a falling out between the two of them.
In response to a number of interviews Jason Johnson has given following the falling out between them, Derek Savage has called him a "heathen" on YouTube and a "liar and a nobody" on Twitter.
After it got removed from YouTube due to a copyright strike by Jason Johnson, Derek Savage re-uploaded the short on there anyway. Johnson had filed the claim due to the fact that almost all of the footage in the short had him playing Cool Cat, but Savage had refused to credit him (the re-uploaded version of the short still doesn't credit Johnson).
In 2018, Derek Savage attempted an Indiegogo campaign for a pitched movie called "Cool Cat Stops a School Shooting" which he said he was going to give to schools around the country as a gun safety film. When he didn't meet the amount of money he was wanting (which was $25,000), he changed the movie to another film called "Cool Cat's Stranger Danger", which would've had Cool Cat teaching kids how not to get abducted and "sold on the black web" (he claimed that one scene would've seen Cool Cat villain Butch the Bully getting kidnapped by child traffickers, but then thrown out of the van because "no one likes him"). With funds of nearly $7,000 from the previous campaign, Savage later stated he never had his heart in "Stranger Danger," so he made "Cool Cat's Crazy Dream" instead. But Jason Johnson (who played Cool Cat) verified suspicions in YouTube comments that almost all of the footage in "Cool Cat's Crazy Dream"--with the exception of Cool Cat seen sleeping in his bed---was shot back in 2012, despite Savage saying that this was where the funds he received from the campaign were spent.
The first scene with Cool Cat talking on the phone is an unused scene from "Cool Cat Saves The Kids", where also a character named John was talking to Cool Cat on the phone. The scene was shown in Derek Savage's Crowdfunding video before releasing the movie but was not featured in the final movie, also the character John was not in the final movie.