True History of LOLcats (Boing Boing tv)

The origination of the LOLcats and cat macro phenomenon popularized on sites like icanhazcheesburger.com is revealed in this Boing Boing tv episode, with help from illustrator Adam "Ape Lad" Koford (hobotopia.com).

-- Xeni Jardin.

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• lolcats
• icanhazcheesburger
• cat
• macro
• john hodgman
• Adam Koford
• Jesse Thorn
• Paul Boutin
• boingboing
• Boing Boing

[ueberRegenbogen]

You think this is serious? Now THAT's scarey!

[666tacoboy]

you wish we were all faggots so you could suck all our dicks

[Alexfantastico26]

Walruses are a scourge upon mankind.

[CONKER17]

this is BS

[bonoboperson]

that history of lol cats may be true, but i like the internet ones better. the whole point of lol cats is to catch cats doing something at just the right time so it looks like they're doing something funny. it just isn't very funny when its drawn, because 1, it loses that magical touch and 2, its just too "set up" if u know what i mean. same goes for real lol cats that are obviously set up instead of caught. if this video is telling the truth, then i thank the creater for the start.

[1998skaterboy]

Why do we want to know the history? Let's just watch somes lolcats!!! Still, OK vid.

[branlego]

Lol

[planetery]

Internet humor: FAIL

[semo2010]

@TheREALgordonliu I love how this has become a well established field...

[Str8upWizardCJ]

@TheREALgordonliu so true, but pointless. OT is O

[XzXP3t0rXzX]

HAHA NICE!!1

[hotelmario510]

They aren't L-O-L cats, they're lolcats.