2 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/653/thumb/633670027035129421-caturday.jpg?1250196647 http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Caturday http://macrochan.org/search.php?tags=Caturday http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/653/square/633670027035129421-caturday.jpg?1250196647 2009-08-13T20:50:48Z 4chan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= active lolcat, caturday, 4chan, image macros 36 <h2>About</h2> <p>Starting on 4Chan&#8217;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 <a href=http://icanhascheezburger.com/>Icanhascheezburger</a>.</p> <p>Excerpt from <a href=http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2007/11/14/News/Iz.Not.Cats.Everywhere.Online.Trend.Spreads.Across.Campus-3099929.shtml>The Daily Pennsylvanian</a>:<br /> <blockquote><br /> The most primal versions of LOLcats appeared years ago on an Internet image board called 4chan, when Saturdays were designated as &#8220;Caturdays&#8221; &#8211; a special day to post photos of cats.</p> </blockquote> <p>Excerpt from <a href=http://thephoenix.com/Article.aspx?id=55486>The Boston Phoenix</a>:<br /> <blockquote><br /> 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.</p> </blockquote> <p>This practice has been expanded, and the idea that &#8220;every day is Caturday&#8221; has caught on as well.</p> <p>The observence of Caturday can also be found on Icanhazcheezburger.com.</p> <p>[this article is a stub and can be improved by finding the first instance of Caturday]</p> <p>Google Trend for Caturday<br /> <img src="http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=caturday&amp;graph=weekly_img&amp;sa=N" alt="" /></p> <h2>Spread</h2> <p><b>Need to find first appearance</b></p> <p>November 16th, 2005: <a href=http://caturdayblog.blogspot.com/>Caturdayblog.blogspot.com</a> appears.</p> <p>Sept 3rd, 2006: <a href=http://community.livejournal.com/caturday/>Caturday LiveJournal Account</a> is created.</p> <p>2009 Caturday on Tumblr http://caturday.tumblr.com/</p> <h2>Youtube<br /> <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LQL1h3no-sc&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LQL1h3no-sc&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></h2> 2009-10-25T18:55:29Z 653 11 18 http://knowyourmeme.com/system/icons/653/original/633670027035129421-caturday.jpg?1250196647