If you can't beat 'em, join em
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
It's Ben Burrns' documentary about the history of cat macros.
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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 is an image combining a photograph, most frequently a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English?a dialect which is known as "lolspeak", or "Kitteh!". The name "lolcat" is a compound word of "LOL" and "cat".
Another name is cat macro, being a type of image macro. Lolcats are created for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums. Lolcats are similar to other anthropomorphic animal-based image macros such as the O RLY? owl.
The term lolcat gained national media attention in the United States when it was covered by Time, Partial scan of the print...
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LoLcats--now in video
Wear your lolcats love with pride
when laughing at photos on the internet is no longer enough
LoL Cats meets The Beatles
just watch it, you see
LOL Together - a lolcat filk of the Beatles' "Come Together"
Fun for lovers of lolcats. Allison Lonsdale and Eben Brooks performing "LOL Together" at Lestat's on March 15, 2008. Filmed by Sun Moon & Stars Productions. LOL TOGETHER Copyright © 2008 Allison Lonsdale & Eben Brooks Here come ol' LOLcat He run out of happy He can has cheezburger Look out, you haz a flavr He's in ur base killin ur d00dz Do not want kibble, give me the gushyfuds! Ceiling Cat watching him He going to the moon, BRB He maded you a cookie, but he Went NOM NOM NOM! He sorry Longcat is looooooooooong Everything you do he say ur doin it rong! LOL Together right now! OMG! He chargin lazors He steal lolrus bukkit He make invisible sandwich It not so gret aktuly He say I like Fark, Worth 1000, SomethingAwful Baby we can Photoshop until we both ROFL LOL Together right now! OMG (Chan it up!) He upgraded your RAM He see what you did there He say Today is Caturday He one holy kitten He say You know me, I know you OMFGWTFBBQ! LOL Together right now! kthnxbai
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Old School LOLCats
Want to see more?
Check out the Laughing-out-Loud cats gallery at Zazzle!
- More Laughing out Loud Cats on Zazzle
- Home of the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats and other monsters
More lolcats
- 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?
- 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.
Geek powers unite!!
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What's your take on lolcats?
Rolling on the floor or rolling your eyes?
Let us know what you think of the lolcats craze
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pkelley77
I love these. A great place to get my fix between Woot-offs. Posted August 06, 2008 |
Interesting, I'm really looking forward to the "evolushun" of the phenomenon!
Posted July 20, 2008
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gibsongirl497
I've never heard of these before. But, they're really adorable! Posted July 16, 2008 |
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BigGirlBlue
I had no idea there was a technical term for this. :) Posted May 05, 2008 |
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freelief
I was just thinking of trying an lolcat lens and figured I better see what's out there first! Great job. :) Posted January 25, 2008 |
