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“Lolwhut?

Some people call pictures of cats with funny/weird or many other derived types of captions — lolcats or cat macros.

The practice of captioning, specifically, cats started many years ago on anonymous forums, most prominently called the *chans. Supposedly, the practice of posting and the actual type of these images was termed “Caturday”.

Caturday

• A day when people all around the internet create, submit, send, email and send pictures of lolcat’s around the world.
• Throughout this all the tone of Caturday remains the same: POST SOME ******* CAT PICTURES.

This word has since detached from it’s original context, grown, and evolved into different terms like lolcats, lolrus, loldog and splintered into varying sub-memes and sub-sub-memes which employ different grammatical patterns, different contexts, and sometimes even merges memes. It has since spread through many forums, and online communities such as somethingawful, ebaumsworld.

The meme continuies to evolve into many completely tangential and unrelated memes: lolbrarians, lolbees, lolpresidents (my favorite being LOLcode). A new LOL- spinoff is created every week. This is happening throughout the internet by people who are having fun, and being creative, by taking a meme (idea) and applying it in new and creative ways.

On ICHC you may also find non-lolcat pictures — we call this lol* and we tag it treasure.“

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