I Can Has Cheezburger?
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
"I Can Has Cheezburger?" is the banal, ripped-off name for a site where the borderline-retarded masses of the world first learned of what 4chan has long known as Caturday. It was started in January 2007 by Eric Nakagawa, a rather inarticulate AZN in Hawaii, with a picture he "found on the internet." In an effort to simplify and make more accessible and mainstream the concept of Caturday, which he himself could not grasp, Nakagawa coined the term "lolcat"
[edit] The death of Caturday as we know it?
In June 2007, "I Can Has Cheezburger" (ICHC) became a partner with Photobucket, which is owned by Fox Jews (who in turn got owned by Anonymous, but that's another story). The widely used Photobucket posted a link to a the "ICHC Factory," where users could upload and create their own "Lolcats" and submit them for the rest of the dullards from Web 2.0 to create their weak version of joy. Many long-time 4-channers yielded to the Photobucket juggernaut and claimed that Caturday was now dead. This assessment was premature. While it is true that your grandmother and your 9-year-old nephew and your developmentally-delayed cousin Shirley are now gurgling at "Lolcats" they receive from each other in the e-mail, they learn nothing from these cheapened, dumbed-down image macros, and could not even begin to grasp the real power in Caturday's casual elegance.
tl;dr Lolcats make you gay.
[edit] Not for amateurs
Later in 2007, ICHC and Nakagawa were profiled by Business Week, one of the most tl;dr magazines in America. In the article it was revealed that Nakagawa is currently making close to $6,000 USD in ad sales from the site each month, with over 500,000 page views daily. This is yet another confirmation that the Internets are serious business. Many people find it funny that someone who enjoys "Caturday" gets in an uproar over this site. This could be compared to a Star Trek Fan getting upset over something involving Star Wars.
[edit] Lulz was corrupted
Predictably, other low-imagination opportunists joined the looting of beautiful memes, corrupting the lulz therein and turning it into "lol." The name "Caturday" itself was stolen for another "copycat" site called "Katurday." Then someone targeted many of the other *chan memes, such as "A cat is fine too," distorting them completely so that they would only appeal to retards.
This phenomenon of "mainstreaming" what once was rare and amazing is nothing new. For example, the "mainstreaming" of the Internet itself, which has allowed many infantile fucktards, such as those found communities such as 4chan, to find a voice and make themselves feel important and noteworthy in such important matters as LOLCats, when neither is the case. If it is any consolation, these abusers will never truly understand that which they mock and defile with their weak, shallow imagery and infantile blurbs. Also, they are asking for it
[edit] Habbo steals LOLCATS
The Habbo Hotel staff are at it again. To try to "fit in" they have started using this to draw moar and moar children to keep their massive underground pedo gig going. Faggotry here
[edit] One Step Too Far & The Final Solution
On Friday the 25th of April, a thread appeared on Ebaumsworld. It included a link to an interview on wired.com with the canihascheezburger fgts. In what can only be described as an act of catastrophic stupidity, they dropped dox on themselves, and claimed responsibility for the creation of Caturday memes!
See the interview here: http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/04/behind-the-me-3.html
Agents of ebaumsworld were enraged. "ROFLcon? WTF is ROFLcon? RAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" they decried. The rusty internet hate machine was revved up again, and in a few hours full dox had been compiled, and harassment began. Dox below:
http://pastebin.ca/997992 Struck from record.
Within seconds a crack team of engineers were working on a final solution for the Caturday thieves. Weapons were deployed to all foot soldiers willing to fight for the dignity of Ebaumsworld.
[edit] LulzFTW is a corruption of lulz
To further capitalize on the originality and success of LOLCats and placate the anonymous masses, the creators of LOLCats launched lulzftw.com to promote their new book of image macros. Failbook group SFags have an opportunity to meet the creators of LOLCats in their city on September 21. Failbook group Location
[edit] Anti-lulz
Trying too hard coupled with unfunny anti-lulz killed Caturday. Behold, the deepest depths of failure on the internets:
[edit] Failcats gallery
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[edit] See Also
[edit] More Examples of Lolcat faggery daggery doo
- Lolcats.com
- Loldjs.com
- Lolthulhu.com
- Katurday.com, "The ultimate lolcat source"
- Retarded attempt to steal even more
- Lolcats MySpace
- LOLCat Bible Translation Project
- At first glance Caturday win, on second, LJ faggotry as usual.
- Wikipedia, in a shocking turn of events, now supports lolcats.
- The Complete History of Lolcat, part 1.
- Speak LOLcat
- The Online LOLcat Translator Project
[edit] Further degradations
[edit] I can has Goatse?
- Make your own 'I can has cheezburger' here for Graet Justice! - Plz to be raping and flooding with pr0nz
