8 posts and columns on lolcats

A Day Without Cat Videos?

in News on September 3, 2009 at 10:43 am PT

Can you imagine the Web without cats LOLing, eating spaghetti or playing the keyboard? The day (just a day!) is coming. Sept. 9 will mark Urlesque’s 24-hour feline-content blackout, also known as “Day Without Cats on the Internet,” and as a lead-up to the event, the site will spend the next few days focused on kitty memes.

LOLcats Go Off-Broadway

in News on August 13, 2009 at 12:34 pm PT

I Can Has Cheezburger, the Web site that popularized the “art” of matching cat photos to misspelled captions, is the inspiration for a new independent musical that debuts Friday. Kristyn Pomranz and Katherine Steinberg, both online editors at AOL, created “I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL” out of a mutual appreciation for the site.

Weekend Update 8.08.09–The Lolcats Edition

in Social on August 8, 2009 at 5:48 pm PT

It’s been a long time between weekend updates, and a long week without Peter Kafka, All Things D’s intrepid MediaMemo reporter. He returns Monday, and just in time, too, since John Paczkowski and Digital Daily will be out all next week. Must be August–do Europeans still take the whole month off? Or is that an urban legend? No matter; it definitely has not been sleepy around here.
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Kara Visits Lolcats: I Can Has Cheezy Laughs and Make Money Online

in News on August 3, 2009 at 7:41 pm PT

On my recent visit to Seattle, the highlight for BoomTown was a visit I made to see Ben Huh, the CEO of Pet Holdings. Huh got a lot of attention when he bought icanhascheezburger.com in late 2007. The site, known as Lolcats, was well known for odd pictures of cats with even odder and often misspelled captions. Via even more sites, Huh has created a profitable network of pointless fun. The latest is, naturally, Emails From Crazy People, which just launched.
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