Okay, I hate cats. I mean, I really hate them. I have five dogs… they say that you’re either a dog person or a cat person, so I guess that makes me a dog person. On top of that, if a cat has even brushed up against someone’s coat and I happen to stand next to them, I will instantly break out into a rash and start wheezing like someone who has been smoking for 40 years. I hate them, and yet sometimes when I see the pictures people put up from LOL Cats, I find some of them pretty cute.
LOL Cats, for those of you who haven’t been faced with it yet, is a site that is dedicated to pictures people can post of their cats after adding “funny” text to the photos, depending on what the cat is doing in the picture. They are shor phrases that are full of grammatical errors and they are supposed to act as what the cat may be thinking… and they’re just goofy, mostly. Possibly the most famous LOL Cats was the “I can has cheezburger” photo, which filled office spaces sometime last year and supposedly got the whole trend started. The site has a voting system so that you can vote for the “cutest” or “funniest” distorted cat photo, then allows viewers to login and write comments… just in case you find one that really touches your soul.
There are several sites that use the LOL Cat theme and each is a bit different, but all revolve around relatively the same idea: cat pictures with funny captions are cute. I’m not really sure what it is that has brought people to this, but I guess there is something for everyone out there. It is popular culture because it was just like a fad after the “I can has cheezburger” photo came up and the sites began, so people (maybe people with extended amounts of free time, but still people) created a little community or culture for this trend that amused them. Even with my disgust for cats, I still found my bored and freshman self looking at the site a few times last school year, so I feel like it was significant enough in terms of popular culture because the posts even caused ME to crack a smile once or twice… well, I still hate cats.
http://lolcats.com/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
1 comment:
This is the greatest website EVER!! haha well maybe not that extreme, but it seriously makes me laugh out loud and helps to brighten up a shitty day. My favorite has to be the huge walrus holding a red bucket. . "I CAN HAZ BUCKET?" It just seems so out of place with all of the cats, but to me it fits right in! This is definitely popular culture, as I see people in all of my classes sharing these pictures while professors lecture. Nice post!
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