A Lolcat is an image combining a photograph of an animal, most frequently a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in broken English referred to as "Kitty Pidgin" or "lolspeak". The idea originated on 4chan imageboards as "Caturday". The name "lolcat" is a compound word of "lol" (laugh out loud) and "cat". The phenomenon is also referred to as cat macros.
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- Lolcats.com Features captioned pictures of cats.
- Live Granades: LOLTrek Blog post that explores the lolcat phenomenon and translates screen captures from the original Star Trek series episode "Trouble With Tribbles" into lolcat.
- Wikipedia: Lolcat Open-content encyclopedia describing the phenomenon and its history.
- Wikimedia Commons: Lolcats Creative Commons licensed lolcat images.
- Open Source: I Can Has Talking Animals? Discussion of the lolcats meme by this podcast/blog.
- The lolsingularity Meta humor on the lolcats phenomenon.
- Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: I Can Hath Cheezburger? Blog written in the style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales describes Lolcats and offers some captioned medieval art that depicts Chaucer's pilgrims.
- Mental Floss First in a series of blog posts about the LOLCATS phenomenon.
- The Daily Pennsylvanian: Iz not cats everywhere? Online trend spreads across campus The lolcats phenomenon on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Toronto Star: Funny how 'stupid' site is addictive Newspaper article covering the early days of lolcats.
- Wall Street Journal: With 'LOLcats' Internet Fad, Anyone Can Get In on the Joke By Aaron Rutkoff. Examines the success of "I Can Has Cheezburger", a mini-tutorial on lolcats, and a short history.
- Techland: Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong Lev Grossman, author of the Time article in July, 2007, corrects some errors in the original.
- Time: Creating a Cute Cat Frenzy Article by Lev Grossman covering the internet meme and its spin-offs.
- Houston Chronicle: Rapidly spreading Web photo-posting phenomenon centers on felines with poor spelling Newspaper article by Dwight Silverman.
- I Can Has Cheezburger? Humorous captioned pictures of felines and other animals. Visitors can submit their own material or add captions to a large archive of available pictures.
- Information Week: I'm In UR InfurmashunWeeks Splainin LOLcats K Bai Article from the "Digital Life" blog.