Directory of Lolcats Resources

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A Lolcat is an image combining a photograph of an animal, most frequently a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in broken English referred to as "Kitty Pidgin" or "lolspeak". The idea originated on 4chan imageboards as "Caturday". The name "lolcat" is a compound word of "lol" (laugh out loud) and "cat". The phenomenon is also referred to as cat macros.

Subcategories

• Kitty Pidgin

Resources in This Category

• Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: I Can Hath Cheezburger?

  http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-can-hath-cheezburger.html
  Blog written in the style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales describes Lolcats and offers some captioned medieval art that depicts Chaucer's pilgrims.

• Houston Chronicle: Rapidly spreading Web photo-posting phenomenon centers on felines with poor spelling

  http://www.chron.com/business/silverman/article/Web-photo-phenomenon-centers-on-felines-poor-1809345.php
  Newspaper article by Dwight Silverman.

• I Can Has Cheezburger?

  http://icanhas.cheezburger.com/
  Humorous captioned pictures of felines and other animals. Visitors can submit their own material or add captions to a large archive of available pictures.

• Information Week: I'm In UR InfurmashunWeeks Splainin LOLcats K Bai

  http://www.informationweek.com/desktop/im-in-ur-infurmashunweeks-splainin-lolcats-k-bai/d/d-id/1055321
  Article from the "Digital Life" blog.

• Live Granades: LOLTrek

  http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/
  Blog post that explores the lolcat phenomenon and translates screen captures from the original Star Trek series episode "Trouble With Tribbles" into lolcat.

• Lolcats.com

  http://www.lolcats.com/
  Features captioned pictures of cats.

• Mental Floss

  http://mentalfloss.com/article/16189/image-macros-intro-lol-cats
  First in a series of blog posts about the LOLCATS phenomenon.

• Open Source: I Can Has Talking Animals?

  http://www.radioopensource.org/i-can-has-talking-animals/
  Discussion of the lolcats meme by this podcast/blog.

• Techland: Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong

  http://techland.time.com/2007/07/16/lolcats_addendum_where_i_got_t/
  Lev Grossman, author of the Time article in July, 2007, corrects some errors in the original.

• The Daily Pennsylvanian: Iz not cats everywhere? Online trend spreads across campus

  http://www.thedp.com/article/2007/11/iz_not_cats_everywhere_online_trend_spreads_across_campus
  The lolcats phenomenon on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.

• The lolsingularity

  http://www.lolsingularity.info/
  Meta humor on the lolcats phenomenon.

• Time: Creating a Cute Cat Frenzy

  http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1642897,00.html
  Article by Lev Grossman covering the internet meme and its spin-offs.

• Toronto Star: Funny how 'stupid' site is addictive

  http://www.thestar.com/life/2007/09/22/funny_how_stupid_site_is_addictive.html
  Newspaper article covering the early days of lolcats.

• Wall Street Journal: With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke

  http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118798557326508182
  By Aaron Rutkoff. Examines the success of "I Can Has Cheezburger", a mini-tutorial on lolcats, and a short history.

• Wikimedia Commons: Lolcats

  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lolcats
  Creative Commons licensed lolcat images.

• Wikipedia: Lolcat

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat
  Open-content encyclopedia describing the phenomenon and its history.

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• Home > Recreation > Pets > Cats > Humor
• Home > Recreation > Pets > Cats > Image Galleries

 

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