Format A Lolcat image, featuring a cat "editing" the dwarf planet article on Wikipedia These images usually consist of a photo of a cat with a large caption characteristically formatted in an uppercase sans serif font such as Impact or Arial Black. The image is, on occasion, digitally edited for effect. The caption generally acts as a speech balloon encompassing a comment from the cat, or as a description of the depicted scene. The caption is intentionally written with deviations from standard English spelling and syntax, featuring "strangely-conjugated verbs, but [a tendency] to converge to a new set of rules in spelling and grammar.
The text parodies the grammar-poor patois stereotypically attributed to Internet slang. Frequently, lolcat captions take the form of snowclones in which nouns and verbs are replaced in a phrase. Some phrases have a known source while others seem to be specific to the lolcat form. Common themes include jokes of the form "Im in ur noun , verb -ing ur related noun. The word "lolcat" is attested as early as June , and the domain name "lolcats. Their popularity was spread through usage on forums such as Something Awful.
The News Journal states that "some trace the lolcats back to the site 4chan, which features bizarre cat pictures on Saturdays, or 'Caturdays'. The domain name "caturday. Teh Meme Wiki Explore. Browse Memes. Bert is Evil Tio1. Rollbacks Content Moderators Administrators Bureaucrats.
Recent Blogs Forums. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Cancel Save. Universal Conquest Wiki. A - eh, as in, "A? Ai cant heer u. Reference to this classic thread. Do mai bidding! Asiancat - the approver of things on the internet. B - be, as in, "To be or not to be. Bakun-Cheezburger - A cheezburger enhanced with a few slices of crispy bacon. This is so good that eating over of these will make kitteh tummies asplode from teh yummy goodness!
Basement Cat - archenemy of Ceiling Cat. Bearcat - a cat assumes the "bear" position; standing on back paws in an upright position with front paws extended or reaching. Mouth is usually open and da pointee enz claws are visible. Can be used to attack da hoomins leg, but most likely, something dangled by da hoomin, e.
BFF - best friends forever, can also be "bffe". Alternate spelling - bls. Can also mean play balls, as in toys. The site that has spawned more memes than Steven Hawking has brain cells… so er ya, a lot. Gradually, thanks to 4chan, these pics were spread about the internet becoming popular on a variety of sites like fark, fazed, vwforums, gpforums, somethingawful, ebaumsworld, etc, but no central site dedicated to them was put up for quite some time.
Enter icanhazcheezburger. After chuckling about it a bit, they promptly went and registered icanhascheezburger. The investors promptly stopped complaining.
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