Lolcats Image Macros Memes Cyberculture

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.

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• mental_floss - First in a series of blog posts about the LOLCATS phenomenon.
  
• Live Grenades: LOLTrek - Blog post that explores the lolcat phenomenon and translates screen captures from the original Star Trek series episode "Trouble With Tribbles" into lolcat.
  
• ROFLog - Mainly LOLcat pictures.
  
• Houston Chronicle: Rapidly spreading Web photo-posting phenomenon centers on felines with poor spelling - Newspaper article by Dwight Silverman.
  
• Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: I Can Hath Cheezburger? - Blog written in the style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales describes Lolcats and offers some captioned medieval art that depicts Chaucer's pilgrims.
  
• Wall Street Journal: With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke - By Aaron Rutkoff. Examines the success of "I Can Has Cheezburger", a mini-tutorial on lolcats, and a short history.
  
• Meowcheese - Allows users to upload and caption cat and related pictures and vote on submissions. Highest ranking pictures are promoted to the front page.
  
• Halolcats - The intersection of lolcats and the video game Halo.
  
• Information Week: I'm In UR InfurmashunWeeks Splainin LOLcats K Bai - Article from the "Digital Life" blog.
  
• Tampa Bay Times: This be funny storyz - Newspaper article.
  
• The LoLCats - Lolcat images. Accepts user submissions; gives readers an opportunity to rate entries.
  
• Times Online: Microtrends: LOLcats - Coverage from the United Kingdom.
  
• A Special In-Depth Analysis by David McRaney - L337 Katz0rz - In-depth analysis of lolcats and kitty pidgin.
  
• CatGasm.com - Collection of Lolcats, and funny cat and kitten photos.
  
• Time: Creating a Cute Cat Frenzy - Article by Lev Grossman covering the internet meme and its spin-offs.
  
• I Can Has Cheezburger? - Humorous captioned pictures of felines and other animals. Visitors can submit their own material or add captions to a large archive of available pictures.
  
• The lolsingularity - Meta humor on the lolcats phenomenon.
  
• Monorail Cat - Pictures of lolcats with a focus on monorail cats.
  
• Meme Cats - Collection of lolcat images. Readers can vote for their favorites.
  
• Wikipedia: Lolcat - Open-content encyclopedia describing the phenomenon and its history.
  
• The Daily Pennsylvanian: Iz not cats everywhere? Online trend spreads across campus - The lolcats phenomenon on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
  
• Toronto Star: Funny how 'stupid' site is addictive - Newspaper article covering the early days of lolcats.
  
• LOL cats - Facebook application offering users the ability to create their own captions.
  
• Lolcatz.net - Categorized and tagged lolcat images, featuring keyword search.
  
• Slate: Cat power: You cannot resist lolcats - Slide show essay by Michael Agger.
  
• Lolcats.com - Features captioned pictures of cats.
  
• Open Source: I Can Has Talking Animals? - Discussion of the lolcats meme by this podcast/blog.
  
• Wikimedia Commons: Lolcats - Creative Commons licensed lolcat images.
  
• Time Nerd World Blog: Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong - Lev Grossman, author of the Time article in July, 2007, corrects some errors in the original.
  
  

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