Caturday

added Aug 13, 2009 at 08:50PM UTC

part of a series on LOLcats

About

Starting on 4Chan’s /b/ in 2005, Caturday at one time was a tradition on 4Chan in which Anonymous would primarily focus on posting lolcat threads on Saturdays. In fact, locats as we know them today grew out of Caturday, before spilling over into other sites, such as Icanhascheezburger.

Excerpt from The Daily Pennsylvanian:


The most primal versions of LOLcats appeared years ago on an Internet image board called 4chan, when Saturdays were designated as “Caturdays” – a special day to post photos of cats.

Excerpt from The Boston Phoenix:


Though the original lolcat meme, called “Caturday,” first started in the 4chan message boards years ago, I Can Has Cheezburger was instrumental in breaking the animal-based image macros and the phonetic “lolspeak” vernacular into the mainstream.

This practice has been expanded, and the idea that “every day is Caturday” has caught on as well.

The observence of Caturday can also be found on Icanhazcheezburger.com.

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November 16th, 2005: Caturdayblog.blogspot.com appears.

Sept 3rd, 2006: Caturday LiveJournal Account is created.

2009 Caturday on Tumblr http://caturday.tumblr.com/

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12 Comments

Taryn
Aug 13, 2009 at 10:59PM UTC , Taryn wrote:

You sure do have an interesting amount of cat information Chris.

Chris Menning
Aug 14, 2009 at 12:58AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

I don’t have nearly enough cat information.

Andrew W
Aug 14, 2009 at 01:19AM UTC , Andrew W wrote:

Damn, beat me to it.

Shadowfury
Aug 19, 2009 at 12:59AM UTC , Shadowfury wrote:

Awesome meme. Best served on /f/, imo.

Griff   McConal
Aug 19, 2009 at 01:06AM UTC , Griff McConal wrote:

o crap now im diabetic. IT WAS TOO SWEET!!!!

Jack Smack
Aug 19, 2009 at 02:23PM UTC , Jack Smack wrote:

What day is Caturday, it ain’t saturday, it’s Caturday. Yay!

Ann Struppi
Aug 19, 2009 at 04:01PM UTC , Ann Struppi wrote:

AWESOME!! IT’S CATURDAY!

34GET
Aug 23, 2009 at 10:28AM UTC , 34GET wrote:

gayest
meme
ever
i’d rather troll a boxxy thread

Alfred Kahn
Sep 18, 2009 at 12:30AM UTC , Alfred Kahn wrote:

What the freak happened to the first one’s fur? O~O

Alfred Kahn
Sep 18, 2009 at 12:30AM UTC , Alfred Kahn wrote:

Yay. Caturday.

Dragonexx
Nov 19, 2009 at 05:34PM UTC , Dragonexx wrote:

random but cool…

cjb
Feb 03, 2010 at 04:49PM UTC , cjb wrote:

‘Caturday’ was invented to thwart the ‘Furry Friday’ imagedumps on /b/ — if some furfag wanted to flood /b/ with Gideon art (this was back when flooding /b/ was possible, with posts lasting a day or so), someone across the timeline would declare it Caturday, and then flood the furry off the board.

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