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Two words: comfort food. When I have been at work for 5 hours and am bored as shit and feel like shit and my day is just going generally shitty, LOLcats provides a small burst of Febreze (to cover up the smell of shit). It's simple, it's stupid, it only requires one of my two remaining brain cells by that point in the day, and it's guaranteed to raise at least a grin.

So fuck you. You can go enjoy your highbrow political blogs. I'm going to let me brain slip into a haze for a few minutes.

Oh, great, Dustin's gonna kill me.

I ...sometimes like Cheezeburger. I have had a few of the pics up as wallpaper on my desktop at work, because they make me giggle. There are some pretty damn funny ones, as long as you are aware to PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY DO NOT READ THE COMMENTS SECTIONS!!!!!! You will likely die from an aneurism before you reach the 10th comment.

Click my name for my current wallpaper picture.

Good news, everyone! More and more of them are spelled and punctuated properly. Perhaps eventually, it'll go in the opposite direction Dustin envisions, and all the captions will be hilarious and not intellectually deadening.

The fact that a book entitled "I Can Haz Cheezburger: A LOLcat Colleckshun" will soon be appearing in the best-sellers section of a Barnes and Noble near you fills me with unspeakable terror. A BOOK, people, A BOOK. The intelligence-devoid future imagined in Idiocracy seems more and more real every day.

Also, I hate cats.

I hate cats. I hate LOL and other text message abbreviations. I hate words that are misspelt on purpose. Go Dustin!

I am a long-time Pajiban, (lurker, that is) and I say without shame that I love lolcats. Not all of the captions are funny - ie, your sample post that you refer to - but a lot of them really are.

The best ones are the ones that acknowledge the ridiculousness of the premise and work with it, and that's what makes them funny - it's like ...meta...(?) blogging. In many cases, they actually poke fun at pop culture.

I daresay I sense a just a tiny bit of bitterness on the part of certain blog writers whose sites don't get as many hits as ICHC......*cough*

I do hate sunshine and happiness.

What's the big deal? It's just one of those things. I can't see how anyone can even get up the energy to hate it. I can't see how I even have the energy to type anything in responszzzzz............ zz.

Didn't someone here within the last year or so write an entire re-cap of some TV show (Grey's Anatmoy) entirely in lolcatisms?

I will admit, I am sort of late to this fade. I was somewhat aware of it for a while, but it wasn't until the last 3-4 months that I found out there was an entire website and all that.

Eh, some of them make me laugh. Some don't.

Seriously! The people of this site (and ZombieForecast.org) should totally appreciate the one I linked up there.

Click it. CLICK IT!! You know you want to...

And this one too. Just don't read the comments, whatever you do.

I love the zombie one! Look at him, standing and walking, like a little Rory Calhoun.

Umm, I don't know what IRL is though....

Whatever the quality of the photo and caption might be, the misspelling makes my brain bleed. I should get a big black marker pen and correct all the copies I can find in bookshops. Does it count as damaging merchandise if you are actually making it better?

When I had a MySpace, my profile picture for about a month would alternate between a cat saying "I Can Haz Cheezeburger?" and another cat saying "No, You Can't Haz Cheezburger."

LOLCatz has infiltrated your staff, Rowles. We can haz Legion.

insertclevername EPIC WIN.

Count me among Genny(aR) and company. I freakin' love those little critters. They make me giggle, and they make my big manly-man husband laugh too.

However, Knife Pile is right. While cute little felines can somehow get away with heinous crimes against the English language, it is absolutely f-ing infuriating to read grown people conversing in "LOLspeak" (it even pains me to type the term).

I am about to out-dork all of you. You know the one of the ceiling cat (cat poking his head down through a hole in the ceiling)? Well on the ceiling of my office I have a papercraft ceiling cat greeting anybody who walks in. Beat that bitches.

So...to recap:

Dustin: Lolcats is ruining the internet, the English language, and our souls.

Pajiban community: We know, but we like it anyway.

Dustin, you are so wrong. I love LOL Cats. I hate people who use LOL in conversation.

Seriously, did you not think that people here would hate LOL Cats? There are more animal loving people here than 99.9% of the internets. We hate humanity, but dammit we are suckers for a furry, fluffy bundle o' cuteness.

Knife Pile, click on my name for the photo that is my computer background.

I have never heard of this site. But when I read the description and then you asked the question "Who the fuck are these people who fritter their life away looking at pictures of cats?" My first thought was "those same Japanese girls and women who carry Hello Kitty bags". But apparently, a lot of Pajibans too. This is........rather frightening, don't you think?

"I have to admit, I visit the cheezburger site sometimes. It's fluff for when life starts to depress me."

I've got fluff too - it's called four fingers of scotch.

Seriously, I'm breaking up with all of you...

I'm with Skittiums. You people are all sick. And not the good kind of sick, either.

I happen to like cats. LOLcats... not so much.

I too confess that I like LOLcats, although I only started checking it out recently. The point is that you don't fritter away your life on that site, you just hit it once a day, have a chuckle, and move on. The pictures are usually great, the captions show a lot of creativity, and I love cats anyway...what's wrong with that?

Although I do hate the deliberate misspellings.

Wow, the internet version of 'damn kids get off my lawn.'

LOL FTW. KTHXBAI.

It's all about perspective. I mean, LOLCats can't anger me especially when I'm confronted by a woman who insists she has international relations experience because she can see Russia from her doorstep and a political party that insists I'm sexist because I hate her.

So yeah, compared to that pile of donkey crap, LOLCats ain't so fucking bad.

Anyway, who doesn't need a little escapism right now? Clearly the vampire books aren't cutting it.

Hah! I like that one, Melody.... I missed it somehow.

Cute Overload makes up most of the rest of my backgrounds. The new guy makes up some great stories, especially for series photos.

This one's for jM.

Julie, I have a cat that loves people food. She will steal your potato chip from your hand. She will swat it and take your food. She is evil. Jade, which is her name even though she is a black cat with yellow eyes, does not speak LOL. She is far smarter and possibly of the devil.

You do have to watch her around food, though. She also hates it when someone is getting something that she is not.

Sometimes the only thing that gets me through the day is giggling at a cute lolcat. I am only slightly ashamed to admit that... less so because apparently so many others feel the same way.

And yes, good god, don't read the comments on that site unless you enjoy feeling your brain drip from your ears.

Tammy, I vote funny.

Damn! This is what I get for trying to get caught up on yesterday's comment diversion--being late to the party. I haven't had a chance to read the whole post, let alone any but the first comment, but I'm with Genny, I love that damn website. I can't explain it, I just do.

And Dustin don't you dare lump me in with a bunch of Palin fans. If I believed in the devil, I would be convinced that she is one of his emissaries. That voice, that awful, awful voice!

Okay, despite warnings, I (shudder) went to the site and checked out the comments section. This is what I saw:

"Plz tu be joyning me at Sur Real Meting Haul Fursdai at hafpast 9 oklok pkshur fur shampane resepshun. Dere wil be shampane nd caikz, no ekspens spaird. yngz waring da nekkee tyz nd 200p bartowlz tu surb da shampane nd skantlee clad surbing wenchez aslo."

No lie. You combine this decline of the English language with the possibility of Lipstick Bush being president, and I've had about all I can handle. Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm loading all my survival gear (thanks Pajiba list!) into the MurderTank, hitting the liquor emporium for a case of fluff, and then I'm off to live in the woods...

I check icanhasetc. once or twice a day. I expect most adherents do the same, and that is probably the reason for the 10 million hits thing. It seems to be running out of juice; but frankly, I check for cute and when it's there, it's the kind of non-offensive cute I can e-mail to my mother and my aunts.

The book idea, while appalling, is more revealing of the publishing industry than it is of LOLcats or the public in general. Publishers, like everyone else in print media, is trying to figure out how to make money off "The Internet" and, as usual, they're laughably clueless (cf. the recording industry and The Internet; the film/TV industry and The Internet).

Then there's the cats. I find it interesting that even the vilest, most transgressive people I have run across on the internet seem to have a soft spot for animals. The "Not Even Doom Music" chapter of the YTMND saga is very telling (if you don't know what I'm talking about, check here or here--but be warned; the incident that sparked NEDM is very upsetting).

I bet even the denizens of rotten.com and ogrish check out the lolkittehs on a regular basis.

Okay Prisco, so now we know why the Eloquents column isn't up yet. You're fucking watching cats on the Web. Couldn't you at least have made up some story about having to get a heart to a dying child somewhere?

I resent the shit out of that statement, Paddy. I would NEVER bring anything to a dying child. Not even a LOLCat to finish the job God's wrath failed to do.

It is possible that the following sentence has never before been typed on planet earth:

My #1 favorite website was just reviewed by my #2 favorite website.

Think about that. . .

I am shocked (shocked!) that no one has mentioned the "lolrus". Dustin, if the lolCATS cause you pain, the lolrus will DESTROY YOU!

Tammy, that is funny, period.

ICHC exposes one of the most easiest groups to annoy: the grammar and spelling police.

P.S. Too soon for that link? KTHXBAI

I love grammar much more than the average girl; I got an entire BA in Linguistics. Yesterday I refused to log a 10 year-old onto a computer until she managed one complete sentence without a single grammatical error. (Yes, I'm that librarian.)

However, I love LOLcats. I'll echo the many opions here, some are funny, some aren't, but they're good mind candy when real life starts to make me ache. And I agree, never ever EVER read the comments section.

Great apologies to all. I meant opinions not not opions. The irony of a misspelling in a post about misspelling is not lost on me at all. I'm going to go hide in a corner now. kthxbai (Couldn't resist.)

Good luck with trying to divert me from the issues by causing a sick child controversy. I want to know how someone who loves LOLcats is even qualified to select "eloquent" comments.

This is real? I had no idea. I don't even like emoticons because they're too cutesy.

But...are there pictures of sleeping cats? Because 75 out of the 100 pictures on my camera are probably sleeping cats. (sad but true)

TODAI, TEH PAJIBAVERSE BROKE MAH SOUL

Um, Dustin, clearly if ICHC is getting 10 million hits a week, that's a sign that it is drawing a variety of people. I'm pretty sure we Pajibans have proven ourselves to be the sort of folks who enjoy spelling whole words correctly(and not that text message crap), using proper grammar, reading challenging books, and various other activities/proclivities that demonstrate a love of expanding our minds, not killing our brains/souls. Therefore those of us who are Pajibans and enjoyers of ICHC, are fully capable of not being dumbed down by it.

Besides, this one hit the spot when the Main Squeeze and I were moving last spring.

MaryWoo - I admit, the lolrus is my favorite. Poor lolrus, let him have the damn bucket.

This one's for jM.

AvB, let's make out.

Even intelligent people like a little stupid. It's the only way to survive this world.

And the diabeetus cat made me giggle.

Dat remindz me! I has not checked Cheezburger yetz today, kthxbai

An fer da rekord, Fowl Overdrive Palin.

EPIC FUCK you and your cheezeburger, shitcat. And on the subject of the degeneration of the language, can I say, EVERY FUCKING BODY needs to stop adding -tastic and -rrific to the end of every fucking noun they ever use. It was never all that clever, not amusing unless you happened to be a half-crocked sorority girl being plied with some douchbag paramour's oratorical finesse, and now every lame bank and grocery and used car dealership use them in their ads, so it is no longer even au currant and it is time to stop it. Just stop it.

Ok...I will admit it...I love the lolcats. And that is purely because sometimes my mind needs a minor escape from boring busy work so that I can laugh at a cute cat with a look of hate in its eyes.

sorry...total guilty pleasure.

There is a lolspeak bible.

1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.

2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.

I find it far more entertaing than the original.

Amanda H. wins a high five.

Calling LOLcats evidence of the downfall of our civilization is a little much. If you really want to look for harbingers of doom, check your site's links. Gossip blogs aren't exactly the height of intellectual stimulation.

Everybody likes their dumb fun. You have it your way, I'll have it mine.

AND TOGETHER WE'LL BE FINE!!

Pajiba used to be just behind Cheezburger on my internet pleasures (guilty or not guilty) but now must I hang my head in shame as I pajiba? I make no apologies for my LOLcat love...it is based on pure joy and it refreshes me when nothing else can. I am a Baby Boomer professional, and me, my GenEx multi-Masters-Degreed sister and (GenEt? or whatever) 19 year-old niece all appreciate the LOLcats daily, for the very short quatum of time that it takes to do so.

Ohhhh - I'd never heard of this site, but checked it out after you mentioned it. And, unfortunately, I love it!!!!

Posted by: celery at September 18, 2008 7:28 PM

PREACH IT!

Dogs rule.

celery: ihasahotdog.com

I'm really impressed that you could stretch a review of that crap website out to five full paragraphs. K

Kudos to you, sir. You are indeed a rare jewel of the blogosphere.

Gabster,

You do realize that roughly 98.27% of the posters here (excluding me for one), that they are not hanging THEIR heads in shame, don't you?

You pick up that damn Pajiba license, straighten yo'self up and say, "I AM a Pajiban! I defend what I believe in! Especially when I'm in a clear majority of fellow defensive Pajibans, hell YEAH!!"

That was some snark, there, veeerly poorly done I might add, but don't let it keep you from commenting when you feel like it: a well-rounded person who loves cats and Pajiba is always welcome to me, if only as a reader.

+ + +

'Kay PajiHari, I did my PR work for the week STOP you know where to send the check STOP Scouting more personnel even as I write this GO YANKEE ARMY WE LUV YOU + + +

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meaux, Figure penises can't spell any better than cats, but they're TWICE as funny when they talk, since they have one eye and no mouth. Or one mouth and no eyes.

Anyway, bottom line: angling for a book deal.

Like many fads this one came from anonymous and should have stayed there. Lolcats is just another meme taken out of the context of anonymous so some loser can make money or get attention.

Lolcats can be funny, but I'd advise people not to overwhelm themselves.

Not taikin urself too srsly: ur doin it wrong.

I like them, but I don't like how ridiculously popular they are. The occasional lolcat is really quite clever, but I realize that most of the people who enjoy lolcats aren't clever, so that cleverness must be lost on them and they're probably just giggling at the silly cats with their silly captions.

But that's true of everything ever, isn't it? Which is why I'm fine with the lolcat meme.

Too late again (sigh), but, Dustin? If you want to bemoan the dumbing down of the universe by lolspeak (and this comes from a person who loves lolcats AND correct English), please, please, get your phenomena and phenomenon right. Plural, singular.

Gottit? Kthxbye

Jay, I thought it was just me!

What the hell man!

to keep with the theme of the post...I R FRKN OUT RIGHT NAU! LOLZ

Calling dibs on LOLCock.com
Posted by: bucdaddy at September 18, 2008 8:18 PM

Srry, d00d, sum1 haz beat u to da punch:

http://www.youcanhaslolpron.com/site/index.php?no=1&showing=da

(Do I really have to tell you people that the above link is NOT safe for work/kids?)
KTHXBAI!

An odd post coming from this site ... movies are slow this week? I hate LOLcats but love LOLbots (http://lolbots.com/) so whatevs. To each their own idiotic diversions.

U R 2 Bee Ded. Wii Haz Let Loose LOLninjacats.

Now whir Bee My Cheezburger.

/Lolcat death note

"... to many people, admitting you hate LOLcats is like admitting you hate sunlight and happiness. It's just cute pictures with funny captions. How can you hate that?"
OK, for me and this crowd I lurk run with, its kind of the other way round. I'm kind of selective about who knows I look at that site. But I just love it, is all.

With all the bullshit going on in the world you complain about captioned /cats/? Jesus christ monkey balls! Worry about something productive for crying out loud! Your economy is floundering around like a fish out of water, Palin is gaining support, "Spoof Movies" keep being made, and half of the Western world is celebrity obsessed, and you think LOLcats are contributing to the deterioration of the delicate social fabric of humanity? My god! Why don't you say it's China's fault next and that this is all just a way of diverting everyone's attention so they can invade and blow shit up?

Srsly, iz not so bad! U see heer:

http://xkcd.com/262/

If LOLcats are bad, are NINJAcats acceptable?

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/09/16/ninja-cat-comes-closer-without-moving/

(I was kinda miffed, then I watched Ninja cat getting closer, closer, OMGSOCLOSE and suddenly I was happy again. Huh.)

Yeah, Jay? Well my LOLcat of FREEDOM and the AMERICAN WAY is going to eat your liberal arugula-loving grammar rabbit for dinner. True patriots don't spell correctly in French. French is for pinkos.

Can't expect a red-blooded American to interrupt a good tearing rant just check for TYPOS. I was writing from the GUT! Gud speling iz 4 eleetistz, k? thxbai! And that, my friends, is what the whole insidious LOLcat phenomenon is all about....

Apropos of nothing, I have had cats all my life. Up to 4 at a time. I will totally be the town Crazy Cat Lady in about 25-30 years, walking around with my shopping cart, speaking in tongues, pulling cats out of my bathrobe and flinging them at people, shower cap, crazy googly eyes and all.

I think cat people love the site because they love cats. It's mostly "awww, cats are cute, and they don't speak proper English!" And I think non-cat people go to it too, because cats are inherently funny; they have no sense of humor, but do have a sense of embarrassment. Have you ever seen a cat try to jump on a couch and miss? It's hilarious. They do that whole nonchalant kid-tripping-on-the-playground thing, where they assume a casual pose super fast, and then look around to see if anyone saw them. So catching them in comical or mortifying moments is satisfying, plus, there's the whole, "See? Cats are stupid, they can't even speak English!" factor.

I have no idea what my point is. I probably don't have one. I can't wait to get home and check out LOLpron.

Yarrr, mateys.

Not a single mention of Caturday.

Wow.

PS - If 2 girls 1 cup didn't usher in the apocalypse, I'm pretty sure i can has cheezburger won't either.

Hallelujah!

Sometimes it seems like almost a felony to NOT like LolCatz... They do nothing for me... nothing... anyone can like them as far as I am concerned just as long as I don't have to

Dustin, don't pawn off LOLcats on us Something Awful goons, the (mostly) ex-SA users over at 4chan did that (it's actually against the rules to use LOL-speak or other 4chan memes on SA). We are, however, fully responsible for Chuck Norris facts.

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Judging from the hostility in these comments, that site is addictive. Do people experience the shakes if they can't go there at least three times a day?

I'd have a more forceful opinion of it if, you know, it was important. I'd think about it more now if I wasn't still laughing about one of the commenters calling Wonkette a 'highbrow political blog'. Hahahahahahahahaha........and I just wet my pants (again).

Is it because of the comments here? Are you spiting Friends of LOL by making the site look ugly?

It's all rather mysterious.

and that leanin' LOLCAT in the main picture is MY FREND BRANDEN,

so I CAN HAS FUK YOU? AGINZ 2 INFINITEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ!

Since some people suck at it, also including myself, I just feel like there are less popular and much more hazardous places on the intarwebs that deserve your disdain. I happen to be a fan of your vulgarity and attitude Dustin, I just feel like it needs to be channeled in the right direction. Like say at places like this:

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/

Since some people suck at it, also including myself, I'll give some constructive criticism. I just feel like there are less popular and much more hazardous places on the intarwebs that deserve your disdain. I happen to be a fan of your vulgarity and attitude Dustin, I just feel like it needs to be channeled in the right direction. Like say at places like this:

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/

i don't care how you feel about lolcats whatsoever (ugh), but please please, for the love of godtopus, keep the fucking retard lol language off of my pajiba comments. it hurts.

Dustin! Methinks you've angered the legions.... who knew LOLcat fans were just as full of venom as any other internet groupies. I can't imagine gregs and whall are just delurkers. They must have been sent here by Rejjus, Ruler of the Semi-Retarded Cats to punish you for your blasphemy. I'm sure a horde will soon follow...

But now, if that cheeseburger site ever posted something critical of Pajiba, I hope you don't expect us to march over there and make LOLspeak comments in your defense.

Hey, Gregs and whall. You know what's so great about goinging and fucking yourself? You don't even need friends! You can do it from the safety of your studio apartment!

..and unto you I bestow the gift of kitty pidgin and by the use of this gift you can properly honor Me and those I have made in my image. And let you not honor any animal god before Me, nor make false images of such gods on tee-shirts. Kthxbai!

While I generally give LOLcats a big old meh, neither loving or hating them, the idea of copy editing a book of LOLcats boggles my mind. Yes it's misspelled, but is it misspelled in the right way. Gah.

Yeah, no I ....I love LolCatz too.

I hate txt spk and all that shit but...God damn it they make me laugh

And I hope the bucket is eventually found.

Also, I live in fear of Basement Cat.

You ALL know what I'm talking about

I go away for a week for a much needed vacation and I come home to find that 1) the format has been changed again, and 2) Pajibans like lolcats. I didn't know what a lolcat was until this review of a blog that has two things I don't particularly enjoy: cats and chat speak, or text speak, or whatever you call it. Two wrongs should make a right, but this isn't the case. I just don't see the appeal.

And so the culture clash begins.

In case anybody still cares, here is an interesting article on the site's owner:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-benhuh23-2008sep23,0,2492555.story

Whaz is wong wid "I haz a cheezburger"? If uze doesn wike it den uze no needz to read them. Cuz we allz wike em.

If you cannot have fun then go hide in your own little nook and cranny and leave the rest of us alone. The lolcats are not hurting them or anyone. I agree with other blogs stick to your political crap and we will stick to our cheeseburgers!!

Cheezeburger Wuver is is a Mainah too ;-P

i love i can i haz cheezburger pleas it is fun i have a cat of my own and she is fun to see

Seriously man, I have never been to your site before, and I never will again. I found this page by coincidence, and if you have nothing better to do with your time than hate on funny pictures of kittens (KITTENS!!!!), then your site is obviously not worth my time to read. I rarely leave comments on any site, but I felt I had to point out what an enormous dick you are to feel such hatred toward these people. I also disagree that these sites will "dumb" us down. School and parents are in charge of education. If you are yet another idiot who thinks the internet is the reason the next generation will be dumber than the last, then you, sir, are part of the problem.

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