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who started that whole "lol cats" thing? ?

i mean, we've all seen them; a funny-lookin cat with a big caption underneath the saying something like, i gotz a cheezeburger, or something else witty....what i wanna know, is who started that?

Public Comments

1. Hi there... here's the story behind LOLCATS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat History A Lolcat image depicting a cat in an iMac Many of the first lolcats originated from the anonymous imageboard 4chan sometime around 2005.[7][8][9] The word "lolcat" is attested as early as June 2006, and the domain name "lolcats.com" was registered on June 14, 2006.[10] The News Journal states that "some trace the lolcats back to the site 4chan, which features bizarre cat pictures on Saturdays, or 'Caturdays'." Ikenburg adds that the images have been "slinking around the Internet for years under various labels, but they didn't become a sensation until early 2007 with the advent of I Can Has Cheezburger?"[11] The first image on "I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?" was posted on January 11, 2007 and was allegedly from the Something Awful website."[12][13] Lev Grossman of Time wrote that the oldest known example "probably dates to 2006",[14] but later corrected himself in a blog post[15] where he recapitulated the anecdotal evidence readers had sent him, placing the origin of "Caturday" and many of the images now known by a few as "lolcats" in early 2005. The domain name "caturday.com" was registered on April 30, 2005.