Tropecat found teh
Idiot Ball, but she did not eated it.
"Oh, oh, and you know what else I found on the web? It's these pictures of cats and they write these — Oh, look at this one. "Invisible cheeseburger!" No, huh? Well, it's not for everyone. I just think they're funny." LOLcats are are an Internet meme which is best described as the lovechild of
Cute Kittens and
Memetic Mutation. Lolcats are
Image Macros that combine photos of cats with humorous captions, usually in a form of
broken english known as "kitty pidgin" or "lolspeak". It should be noted that using bad spelling as humour is
hardly a new phenomenon. And the practice of combining
cats with funny captions
◊, goes back even further. However, the modern-day phenomenon of LOLcats originates from the
Image Board 4chan, where every Saturday users posted funny pictures of kitties, a practice called "Caturday". This didn't become a sensation until the launching of the website
I Can Has Cheezburger?
, which takes its name from
this popular image
.
However, the LOLcats phenomenon extends further than just
Image Macros. It also spawned "
Kitty Pidgin
" (a.k.a "
Lolspeak
"), which is widely regarded as being "the first language born of teh intertubes", along with a
programming language
and even a
kitty theology, complete with its own
Bible translation
and
blasphemers
.
Just don't do it in real life
. There's been an
article on them
in
Time magazine.
They have spawned spinoffs like
Loldogs
,
Lolruses
,
Lolbunnies, Lolbirds, Lolhamsters, Lolowls, Lolpigs,
Lolthulhu
, and even Lolhumans like
Lolpresidents.
Self Demonstrating version here.
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