What's up with LOL Cats?

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I was not an early adopter in the whole lolcats craze. In fact for a long time I felt like this guy.

Now that I've come around to the joy that is cats doing cat things with badly spelled human interpretations of what cats might say if they sort of spoke English, I must pass it on.

Photo credit: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

The History of LOL Cats

a documentary

The History of LOLCats - G4tv.com

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So all I need is a funny picture of my cat and some misspelled words?

If only it were that easy

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So it turns out, there is method behind the lolcats madness. It may not be Hiku, but there are rules.

It's more like, lolcats grammar.

Anil Dash explains it best in Cats Can Has Grammar

Need more help? Check out The Definitive Lolcats Glossary!

Think you've got it? Click Here to build your own lolcats image.

Well if you want to get all technical about it. . .

lolcat on Wikipedia

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A lolcat (pronounced , with the "lol" not being an initialism), is an image combining a photograph, most frequently of a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English?a dialect which is known as "lolspeak" or "kitty pidgin" and which parodies the poor grammar typically attributed to Internet slang. The name "lolcat" is a compound word of the acronymic abbreviation "LOL" and the word "cat". A synonym for "lolcat" is cat macro, since the images are a type of image macro. Lolcats are designed for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums.

The term lolcat gain...

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LoLcats--now in video

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Kitty's LOLCats Compendium

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LOLCATS

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Best of LOLCAT

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LOLcats from ICHC

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Wear your lolcats love with pride

when laughing at photos on the internet is no longer enough

Old School LOLCats

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Want to see more?

Check out the Laughing-out-Loud cats gallery at Zazzle!

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More Laughing out Loud Cats on Zazzle: Home of the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats and other monsters

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LOLCATS.COM - Funny Lolcat Pictures: Welcome to Lolcats.com the number one place to find all of your funny cat macros, memes and all round lolcats in one place on the web.
LoLcats on Stumbleupon: See featured lolcats sites and meet people that like lolcats sites.
Funny Cat Pictures: lolcats, memecats, and roflcats - Cat Wack: Can there be too many?
Caturdayz.com - LOLcats with more LOL.: More LoL cats
ROFLCAT - Funny Cat Pictures, Funny Forum Images: Funny Cat Pictures--occasionally "PG-13"
Cat Macros - I has a bard!: LoL Cats--Shakespearean Style!
The Which Lolcat Are You? Test: Take your Lolcat love to the next level--find out which one is most like you!
Cat Macros - First set of cat macros, for physics geeks.: You like quantum lolcats? These are for you!
Fat Cat Blog: The Fattest Cats on the Internet!
lolsecretz: The meeting of two of the internet's most famous memes: PostSecret and LOLcats.
I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?: The most famous lolcats site of them all

LoL other stuff

why stop with cats?

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What's the best way to take advantage of an internet sensation? Expansion......

LOLTrek: Star Trek, LoLCats together at last
lolgeeks: It's just what you think
LoL librarians: Proving that on the Internet you just can't go to far.
LOLTheist: Blasphemy is Teh Funneh: LOLTheist: Blasphemy is Teh Funneh
Because LOLcats plus Jesus Equals High-larity!
LOLCat Bible Translation Project: Hai! Teh blessigs of teh ceiling cat b pwn u, lol!

This is a new translation wiki to get the entire Bible translated into kitty pidgin (the language of lolcats). I saw a link to a picture with t
LOL Code: Programming the LOL way.All LOLCats, LOL, ALL CAPS.HAI! This site provides community documentation of the emergent LOLCODE language.

Yes, this is for real.

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