lolcats

Here's something I hadn't seen given a name before: the practice of putting captions with poor grammar and IM-style spelling onto pictures of cats to humorous effect. The resulting pictures are referred to as lolcats. Apparently, it is quite profound and clever.

The site I Can Has Cheezburger has many examples of the form. There's even a programming language, which uses lolcat style idioms, e.g. (explanation of keywords etc.):

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
GIMMEH VAR
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10?
  YARLY
    BTW this is true
    VISIBLE "BIG NUMBER!"
  NOWAI
    BTW this is false
    VISIBLE "LITTLE NUMBER!"
  KTHX
KTHXBYE

Well I never.

Comments

lmao

This is clearly the best use of everybody's time. Love it :D

I love it too.

I love it too.