Lolcats, A Bad Grammar Cat Macro Meme Explosion

by Scott Beale on April 29, 2007 · 41 comments

I Has Been Ignoring Ur Squidz

The Lolcat meme is has been exploding lately. Lolcats or cat macros are those weird photos of cats (sometimes other creatures) doing strange things and using bad grammar. Recently they have been popularized via creative Twitter error messages.

I Can Has Cheezeburger? is becoming a massive clearinghouse for Lolcats and there is now even an online Lolcat Builder where you can make your own Lolcat images.

Anil Dash recently wrote a great post about the whole Lolcat phenomenon.

Of course, I couldn’t resist playing along and created my own Lolcat image staring the one and only Ika Zaru. Have you made a Lolcat? Please share in the comments.

UPDATE: Well I’m legit now, I Can Has Cheezeburger? has officially cataloged and tagged my Ika Zaru Lolcat.

photo credit: Scott Beale

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{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Susan Reynolds April 29, 2007 at 1:11 pm

Scott, ur cat and mine be on the same wavelength, lolcatting on Anil’s coattails so quik. Lovin that twitter!
http://tinyurl.com/39rbfb

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2 V April 29, 2007 at 1:15 pm

Nice! Ika is a doll!

I just came a cross this one for the first time – http://tinyurl.com/2rnj7u

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3 mikl-em April 29, 2007 at 1:40 pm

omigawg. i’m in your comments / smacking my gob. I’ll be making my catz lives hell shortly now.

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4 Mike April 29, 2007 at 4:18 pm

Following on right behind, Scott – http://tinyurl.com/ytaulh

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5 MrBabyMan April 30, 2007 at 12:37 am

This is a great use of all my old offbeat cat pics!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/218/475116303_026f854213_m.jpg

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6 Mike April 30, 2007 at 2:16 am

I will fall in step with any trend that embarrasses my cat: http://www.livejournal.com/users/mike20/#11586

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7 Evil_Dildo April 30, 2007 at 6:57 am

They’re everywheeeeere! Not and never funny (insert synonym here). Maybe it is just my aversion to house cats.

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8 cheezburger April 30, 2007 at 9:36 pm

lolz… no moar ignoring squid ;) here com da lol* effect

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9 cheezburger April 30, 2007 at 9:49 pm

ichc lurves lolsquid… plz for to send moar!

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10 beccamutt May 1, 2007 at 6:31 am

Kittahs not ignorin squidz, kittahs bein koy.

My cat hates me now. Everytime she turns around she’s got a camera in her face! I submitted one of her (with a deceiving tag about her harbles — girl kittahs no has harbles!). Let’s see if cheezburger likes… ^__^

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11 WhatLadder June 1, 2007 at 3:36 pm

You know a meme has arrived when it spawns a parody. fakecat is fake.

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12 Sponge Monkey June 7, 2007 at 2:12 pm
13 lolcats September 19, 2007 at 1:14 am

Only I can haz funny!

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14 mozey April 24, 2008 at 10:51 am

Hello guys,
They are addictive, i have deticated the past few months working on an application that gives you MORE freedom while developing your lulz,

check it out at clipmann.com (if i may post the link)

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15 Sigrid May 22, 2008 at 4:56 am

O hai
you may find this post about lolcat literacy interesting :-)

http://wordandimage.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/lolcat-literacy/

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