Lolcolin

colin — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Well, I can’t see any reason not to jump on this Lolcats bandwagon. It’s funny, it’s cute, and I don’t really understand it, putting it in the same category as another item I’m awfully partial to. What you do is you take a picture of a cat (or anything else, really — there are already Lolrabbits, lolruses, lolbrarians, et al.) and then essentially caption it, speaking for the animal depicted, generally, and your caption-phrasing style is, um, basically illiterate. I’m not sure how they started, and I’m not even sure people still do them… this was a several weeks back that I decided to write about this, but it struck me as a particularly excellent candidate for bridging the generation gap between the web’s oldest and youngest users. I’m thinking, Penny’s little sister probably digs lolcats, because the captions are usually funny and inside, rife with chat abbreviations, hacker acronyms, typos and trans-hemispherical East-West garblings. And at the other end of the spectrum, I’m betting my mom would like them too, because, you know, cats. Anyway, go check ‘em out, if you haven’t already, whether you’re a toddler or an octogenarian, whether they sound intriguing or stupid, or both. You can even make your own.

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