Cats can i haz cheezburger

You may remember the famous, "Ceiling cat is watching you masturbate" LOLCat that began to make its way across the Internet a couple of years ago. And in those days, there weren't really any sites serving as clearinghouses for the phenomenon. You'd get them sent to you via e-mail or on instant message. But it was hard to find good collections of them other than sites where dozens of them were roughly patched together and added to as more funny ones turned up.

For whatever reason, it struck a chord, and immediately, the two registered icanhascheezburger. And while it wasn't a problem at the time, as they engineered the site to allow users to submit their own LOLCats and as the site has subsequently grown and grown, and become synonymous with the LOLCat meme, other have attempted to piggyback on its popularity by registering similar URLs.

Because there's a million ways to spell "I Can Has Cheezburger" and we don't own any of them. In the early days of the site, its traffic was negligible, but it very quickly outgrew its available bandwidth and was regularly getting Nakagawa and Unebasami in trouble with their hosting service. Huh said that one day in April , I Can Has Cheezburger--which he hadn't heard of--linked to a page of his and the resulting flood of traffic took his site down.

Nakagawa apologized and promised to take down the link, but a relationship was born. Not long afterward, in July , Huh said he offered to buy I Can Has Cheezburger and take the site off their hands, along with the headaches it was clearly causing the founders as it grew and gave them seemingly unsolvable server issues.

By now, traffic was in the tens of millions of page views per months, but not long after the purchase, it seemed to stall.

He admitted that in the early days of his ownership of the site, "we had absolutely no clue what the hell we were doing," but as they moved forward, they decided that rather than try to make big changes to try to improve traffic, it would be better to leave the site's huge community alone. After all, it was the community that was making the site what it was.

As Huh put it, "Don't friggin' touch a thing. There's a community here. Without submissions of users' LOLCats , there's no content. And without content, there's no traffic. Specifically LOLcats. I love memes.

I love cats. When their powers combine, magic happens. Plus, I recently watched this Vox video called The reason every meme uses that one font , which is about the history of the Impact typeface and its use in memes.

I used to spend hours browsing the site - some of them are incredibly funny. One of my favorites was the "crazy cat lady starter kit. I've read several of these blog-to-book deals, and for the most part, I've found them lacking. I think it's because a lot of these blogs are crowd-sourced, so there's a lot of edgy humor which comes from being anonymous. The people who publish the books aren't anonymous and they're trying to appeal to as many people as possible, so what often happens is that the jokes inside are very tame and inoffensive, in order to keep the books "family friendly.

There's a handful of genuinely funny pictures in here, but for the most part it's just things like "Invisible Treadmill" or "Insert Cheezburger Here. Oct 15, Matt rated it it was ok. With LOLcats, there is no middle ground. You can love them, or hate them, and those are the only two possible options. I am most certainly a fan of adorable pictures of kitties complemented by descriptive captions riddled with typographical errors.

These pictures crack me up and make my day. As an Army officer, I estimate that I waste approximately seventy-five tax dollars per working day by giggling at LOLcats when I am supposed to be working. In the LOLcat universe, icanhascheezburger.

At long last, the archtypal LOLcat website has released its first official publication. As unapologetically obsessed as I am with these things, it might come as a surprise that I didn't score this book higher. Here are my beefs: 1 First off, it's way too small. This damn thing's about the size of a CD, some sort of "pocket book. LOLcats deserve to be in a full-size "coffee table book," something you can proudly display for house guests to admire and envy.

The only possible advantage I can imagine for the diminutive dimensions of this volume are that if you are a girl who carries a purse, you could carry this book with you for LOLs on the go.

Since I am neither a chick, nor do I carry a purse, this does nothing for me. These are ultimately distracting and only serve to divert the reader's attention from the LOLcats, which are at their best when allowed to shine on their own merits.

They might as well have not bothered. So, I had high hopes for this book, and it failed to deliver. Still, with LOLcats you can almost never go truly wrong, and at the end of the day this is still a collection of adorable cat pictures with hilariously appropriate captions. I'm always willing to shell out ten bucks to support that kind of thing.

Jun 18, Mykle rated it it was ok. I'm so relieved that every briefly popular blog on the Internet now gets a book deal. The poor, unwashed, disconnected unfortunates who don't have web access have been yearning -- yearning! Their long national nightmare, finally, is over. View all 36 comments. Dec 16, Michelle rated it liked it Shelves: olio. View all 4 comments. To translate the blurb for this colourful and amusing book, 'A LOLcat is a picture of a kitten with a funny caption.

There are well over of them within these covers and the majority of them will bring a smile, or even a laugh out loud moment, to the reader, particularly those with a feline bent. There is even 'napoleon kitteh' who 'iz ekspandin the empyre', complete with tricorn paper hat! It is just good fun with some of the captions being ingenious. Shelves: jackie-recommends , staff-recommends. Beth says: Ridiculosity at its best! Jackie says: This book is a great introduction to the daily hilarity available at the web site of the same name.

Beth introduced it to me several months ago, and now I am a slave to the LOL cats! Oct 20, Elizabeth rated it really liked it Shelves: animals , humor , cats. Funny, cute, adorable in places. The photos are excellent, and the captions are funny. Parts of it were more memorable than others, but on the whole, it was quite an enjoyable experience.

Certainly worth reading, and recommended for any cat-lover. Shelves: read Ok, so this book admittedly is a short and really easy read since it's basically packed full of hilarious cat pictures with captions.

I would have given this the highest rating because of the content, but sometimes the misspellings just got on my nerves and became hard to understand.

Yes, I get it, the book was written that way on purpose, supposedly because the cat is talking, but at times it was just annoyin Ok, so this book admittedly is a short and really easy read since it's basically packed full of hilarious cat pictures with captions.

Yes, I get it, the book was written that way on purpose, supposedly because the cat is talking, but at times it was just annoying and overdone. Jan 02, Ladiibbug rated it really liked it. If you have not visited the LOL cats site, stop what you are doing!! Run, don't walk, and prepare to laugh yourself silly!

This book is a collection of some of the fun, heartwarming, or goofy photos of cats with hilarious captions. There's a LOL Dogs site too. May 02, Hanna rated it liked it. I think I'm just over the whole LOL cats thing. I participated in the beginning, and now it's tired. Some were funny, but others are kind of meh. It would be good for someone who's never heard of LOL cats though. Dec 27, Diana rated it liked it Shelves: first-read , read-in , re-read , non-fiction-read , read-in The book has some of the more well-known memes, and others that for me just weren't that entertaining.

It's a cute book but I don't think it stands the test of time. Nov 23, Tez rated it really liked it. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. First a popular website, now comes I Can Has Cheezburger? A LOLcat is an image of a cat with a caption, usually with deliberately bad grammar and atrocious spelling.

Indeed, you may have to read some slowly to properly understand. However, if cats really could speak, I imagine they'd be the sophisticated types looking down upon you with their vast vocabulary and First a popular website, now comes I Can Has Cheezburger?

However, if cats really could speak, I imagine they'd be the sophisticated types looking down upon you with their vast vocabulary and correct writing fundamentals. But what would I know? That's why the prestigious Professor Happycat pops up every now and then with a handy explanation for those not in the know.

One can blow through the book in about 10 minutes, yet all the important topics are included: food, economics, the workplace, etc. And you're sure to find a LOLcat to show how you're feeling Speaking of which, here's mine from here : [image error] View 1 comment.

Jan 01, Eva Marie rated it liked it Shelves: julias-books , wtf , pets-animals , humor. Okay, I guess I get to be the party pooper here. No problem, I'll take it on. One question: Would these pictures not still be funny withOUT the incorrect words and grammatical errors?

Seriously, would these pictures, shown to the same people, cease being humorous? Geek Universe , a collection of materials that consist of random specific content from Whovians , Bronies , Pokemon Fans , Video Game Enthusiast , and other subcultures. Know Your Meme , an encyclopedia themed site that catalogs internet memes for the general knowledge of internet users. Spread As of March , Cheezburger currently has 1.

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