LOLcats

added Dec 12, 2008 at 08:11PM UTC

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About

LOLcats are image macros, made of humorous photos of cats with superimposed text written in a form of broken English known as lolspeak.

Many of the most popular lolcat-based memes were popularized via 4chan.org, the 4chan tradition of Caturday, and Icanhascheezburger.com.

Although 4chan has proven to be instrumental in the spread and mutation of the cat macro meme, much of this seems to have been carried over to 4chan from the cultures of previous PHP and vBulletin-based message boards such as General Mayhem.

“The Internet is Serious Business” has grown into more of a catch-phrase, but began as an animated gif form of kitten image macro on Genmay.

The Cliche Kitty, otherwise known as the “Everytime you Masturbate, God Kills a Kitten” kitten was a popular kitten meme that grew to popularity through Fark.

Origin

The act of placing text on a humorous photo of a cat has it’s pop culture roots in the famous “Hang in there, baby” poster from the 1970’s, which spawned a series of imitators itself.


Trends

According to Google Insights, searches for cats have decreased in the last 6 years.

The overall decrease in cat searches is likely an effect to the ever-growing supply of cats on the internet.

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15 Comments

Cooper Smith
Jul 12, 2009 at 02:48AM UTC , Cooper Smith wrote:

i think i hate lolcatz.

hellolittlefish
Aug 14, 2009 at 04:12PM UTC , hellolittlefish wrote:

And at this:

http://apelad.blogspot.com/

LOLspeak + meme jokes + old timey cartoon style

yatta
Aug 18, 2009 at 02:37AM UTC , yatta wrote:

The ‘Laugh Out Loud Cats’ iz not real http://www.amazon.com/Laugh-Out-Loud-Cats-Sell-Out/dp/0810995719

(Read the description.)

LolDog
Aug 28, 2009 at 01:34PM UTC , LolDog wrote:

I think I’m in luv with lolcats. deyz iz funii :D

Captain Blubber
Sep 13, 2009 at 02:20PM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

Okay, we’re gonna need a new icon for this or Happy Cat because they are the same picture.

Memedude7737
Oct 04, 2009 at 06:39PM UTC , Memedude7737 wrote:

I love lolcats. Including all of its sub memes.

Captain Blubber
Nov 05, 2009 at 10:44PM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

Hey time.com, I bet you can’t make a lolcat joke in an article about H1N1.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1934826,00.html

Oh, all right then…

Lanthus [Chicken Ace & Taking Names mode activated]
Nov 30, 2009 at 03:38AM UTC , Lanthus [Chicken Ace & Taking Names mode activated] wrote:

What’s up with the M Bison one? It’s not lolcats.

MorganInYourPants
Dec 07, 2009 at 07:24PM UTC , MorganInYourPants wrote:

x D

Hector Hessy
Dec 07, 2009 at 07:28PM UTC , Hector Hessy wrote:

x3

Watcher
Jan 01, 2010 at 06:58PM UTC , Watcher wrote:


Found this.

KingStarscream
Feb 05, 2010 at 04:50PM UTC , KingStarscream wrote:

Get this:

According to one article in Cracked (looking for it, will comment when I have it), the first “funny cat picture with caption” image was used as an advertisement… in the late 19th century.

inferior_squirrel
Mar 01, 2010 at 05:58PM UTC , inferior_squirrel wrote:

that finish him one is actually a monkey

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