Jezebel: lolcats

Know Your LOLCat History

Dodai — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:20:00 EST

And lo, a kitten was once paired with a caption. And it was good. [Boing Boing]

"You Can Make Me Vampior?"

Dodai — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:30:00 EST

If the actual movie had been as short and hilarious as LOLNew Moon, I would have enjoyed it a lot more. [Mircosuede]

LOLVogue: Duz Dis Make Me Luk Lyke A Sex Kittin?

Dodai — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST

The "Fur Play" shoot in Paris Vogue's November issue is feline-themed! Let's ignore the animaux morts/fur-pushing and Raquel Zimmermann's "tribal" makeup and focus on: KITTY!!! After the jump, we're in ur magazeen, puttin werds on ur moddles.

MEOUCH!!!! OH NOES! DIS MODDLE HAZ NO CAPSHUN!!!!! USE TEH AMAZIN ROFLBOT! AN POST SUGGGESSHUNS IN TEH COMMINTZ!!!!

Earlier:
Vogue Taunts Us With LOL-Worthy Horse
LOLVogue: I Purmd Mai Hare
LOLVogue: I Can Haz Locayshun Shewt? (Plus Contest!)
October's LOLVogue Contest: We Have A Winner
LOLVogue: Teh Billee Goatz Gruff (And Contest!)
LOLVogue: Sumwon Elss Kleanz Up (Plus Contest!)
LOLVogue: I Can Haz Wind Tunnel?
LOLVogue: All Dat Glitterz Iz Mah Pantz
LOLVogue: Superhero Photo Shoot Gets Super Stoopid
French LOLVogue: I Can Has My Close-Up?
I Can Has Jeetann? C'est LOLVogue En Faux Français
LOLVogue: Teh Hare Toss & Teh Bunnee Hop
LOLVogue: Tard Moddles & Bahlinceeyagga
Bon Joor, C'est Paris LOLVogue Encore!
LOLVogue: Sheez Over Ayteen, I Sware
LOLVogue: Hungry Moddles & Rorschach Tests
LOLVogue: Carbs, Botox & Pink-Eye
LOLVogue: Good Help Is Hard To Find
Mon Dieu! C'est French LOLVogue: Shoulders, Champagne and Cigarettes
LOLVogue: Starving Models & Marionettes
LOL'Vogue': Scarves, Silverware & Scooters

Im In Ur Internet, Banning Ur Cats

Margaret — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:20:00 EDT

Urlesque's Kelly Reeves finds cat videos, (particularly the one at left) annoying, so she's organized a Day Without Cats On The Internet on September 9. Message to Reeves' two cats: someone needs to put a hairball in her shoe. [Wired]

Cat Says: F#¢k Off.

Sadie — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:40:00 EDT

An Australian man claims his cat, Mischief, can talk. "He can say seven words all up: mum, no, now, what, f—k, pr—k and why." The cat declined to talk to reporters, instead scratching his owner, then hiding. [News.com.au]

LOLVogue: I Purmd Mai Hare

Dodai — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:40:00 EDT

Since the September issue is such a big deal, I decided to revisit our old friend LOLVogue. After the jump: We're in ur magazeen, puttin werds on ur moddles.

OH NOES. THIS MODDLE HAZ NO CAPSHUN. PUT SUGGESSHUNS IN TEH COMMINTZ!!!11!! TEH WINNR GITZ A PRIZE!!!

Macros made with help from the amazing and highly recommended roflbot.

Earlier: LOLVogue: I Can Haz Locayshun Shewt? (Plus Contest!)
October's LOLVogue Contest: We Have A Winner
LOLVogue: Teh Billee Goatz Gruff (And Contest!)
LOLVogue: Sumwon Elss Kleanz Up (Plus Contest!)
LOLVogue: I Can Haz Wind Tunnel?
LOLVogue: All Dat Glitterz Iz Mah Pantz
LOLVogue: Superhero Photo Shoot Gets Super Stoopid
French LOLVogue: I Can Has My Close-Up?
I Can Has Jeetann? C'est LOLVogue En Faux Français
LOLVogue: Teh Hare Toss & Teh Bunnee Hop
LOLVogue: Tard Moddles & Bahlinceeyagga
Bon Joor, C'est Paris LOLVogue Encore!
LOLVogue: Sheez Over Ayteen, I Sware
LOLVogue: Hungry Moddles & Rorschach Tests
LOLVogue: Carbs, Botox & Pink-Eye
LOLVogue: Good Help Is Hard To Find
Mon Dieu! C'est French LOLVogue: Shoulders, Champagne and Cigarettes
LOLVogue: Starving Models & Marionettes
LOL'Vogue': Scarves, Silverware & Scooters

Cat Got Your Hand?

Margaret — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:30:00 EDT

We can't tell if the cat in the video at left really wants to hold his owner's hand, or is just preventing her from posting a comment she'd regret later. [Buzzfeed]

The Meow Must Go On!

Sadie — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:20:00 EDT

Anyone who's never been to the Moscow Cat Theatre, first of all, go immediately. Then watch this documentary about it, which conveys some of the weird awesome of the whole experience. [BuzzFeed]

Paws Of Attraction

Margaret — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:20:00 EDT

In the video at left, a man demonstrates that the best way to make yourself irresistible to a cat is to behave like one, i.e. be completely indifferent to even her most desperate pleas for attention. Sounds about right. [Buzzfeed]

Im In Ur Sofas Steelin Ur Change

Margaret — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:20:00 EDT

Watch out the next time you plop down on your couch. As shown in the clip at left, there may be an adorable kitten hiding between the cushions. [Video Gum]

This Cat Has Way More Twitter Followers Than You

Sadie — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:40:00 EDT

Sockington, a former stray of Massachusetts, has more than 500,000 followers on Twitter, despite writing in intelligible English. [Sun]

Why We're Suckers For Puppy (And Kitten) Love

Margaret — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:00:00 EST

For Valentine's Day, Salon is focusing on the love between humans and their pets, romances in which the perfect gift is dispensed from a bag of "Friskies" and chocolates are an absolute no.

The first article in the "Pet Week" series explains how cats, shunned by the movie industry, have claimed the Internet as their own. As author Sarah Hepola explains:

To be a cat person is something of a private affair. We don't meet at the park and throw sticks. We don't parade our animals down the block or stand around, chatting awkwardly while our pets sniff each others' rear ends. Whatever your cat does — the way he curls up like a croissant and snores, the way he pads frantically about the bed at 4:30 a.m., paw to your face — is largely between you and the torn furniture.

Ironically, the solitary nature of being a cat owner is exactly what drove people to catalogue their cat's every move and share it with the anonymous masses online. After achieving Internet meme infamy with LolCats, felines have gone on to be featured in numerous other websites, from Stuff on My Cat, to Cats That Look Like Hitler. The appeal of these sites (in addition to featuring adorable kitties) is that they let cat owners confirm that other people's cats do weird stuff all day too.

The second essay in the series claims that dog lovers have an entirely different psychological make up than cat lovers. Heather Havrilesky explains that since she is unable to play nicely with other humans, she turns to her dogs. Dogs, she says, fulfill her emotional needs in ways no human would tolerate:

You want me to smother my husband with kisses and bear hugs every night? I'd start to gross him out in a matter of weeks. You expect him to lick my feet and say, "Ri rove roo" when I hold a cookie over his head? I'd lose respect for him in less than a second. That's why I have subordinate pack animals around, so I can be bossy and demeaning to something that finds being bossed around and demeaned vaguely relaxing.

While all pets are stinky, get fur on everything, and will destroy your furniture, both dog and cat people know that even if it's embarassing to lay on the ground and play with your cat or kiss your dog in public, pets are just inherently lovable.

The Internet Is Made Of Kitties [Salon]
Praise Be To Dog [Salon]

When Your Boyfriend Isn't Fluent In LOLSpeak

hortense — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:40:00 EST

For those of us who spend countless hours clicking around the internet, the language of websites, comment sections, and silly internet jokes comes quite naturally. But what of the souls who don't speak fluent Interweb?

Last week, my boyfriend turned to me while reading the Jezebel comments and asked, "Why do the commenters spell everything wrong?" When I asked him to explain, he said, "Well, they always write 'kitteh' instead of 'kitty' and 'puppeh' instead of 'puppy.' Is that on purpose?" And that is when it hit me: my boyfriend had no idea what LOLSpeak was.

My first reaction was "Where the hell have you been for the past 8 billion years?" LOLSpeak has been all over the internet for what seems like forever, and is so overdone at this point that one wonders if it may, finally, be on its way out. Yet my boyfriend had completely missed the wacky internet phenomenon, and it was nearly impossible to explain it to him without sounding like an idiot:

"Well there's these cats," I began, "and people post pictures of them, you know, like doing things? And then people write captions for these pictures, but they spell things wrong. You know? Like a cat is saying them, only cats are cats and they can't really type? I Can Haz Cheezburger? Does that make sense?"

"Oh," my boyfriend said, looking like I did when my 10th grade Chemistry teacher tried to explain stoichiometry to me.

I then went on to explain the concept of FAIL, showing my boyfriend a few pictures from FAILBlog. "You see, it's a FAIL, because the car is parked on a rock," I explained.

"I see," my boyfriend shrugged, before adding, "Am I really lame because I don't know these things?"

To which I replied: "No, I think I'm really lame because I do know these things."

It's strange, sometimes, to realize how the time you spend on the internet shapes the way you interact with others. My boyfriend and I have been dating for 9 years, yet the way we choose to spend our time online has put a dumb internet language barrier between us. It's weird when you discover that someone you know inside and out is a bit disconnected from the life you've created for yourself online; in commenting, you develop an identity through your word choices which doesn't necessarily reflect who you are or how you communicate offline. I'm sure many of us have encountered looks of complete bewilderment when we try to explain an online joke to one of our friends.

I kind of love the fact that my boyfriend is clueless about the fads of the internet: it's a reality check and a means to disconnect from the online world, which can be all-consuming at times. He's now worried that you will all make fun of him in the comments. "They are going to think I am such a loser," he frowned. Yet I think the fact that he's honestly been able to steer clear of dumb internet memes over the past few years is much cooler than the people who try to pretend that they're too cool for LOLCats and such.

In any case, he's now aware of LOLSpeak, but thankfully hasn't become fluent, though he's made small steps. Before we went to sleep, after our LOLSpeak conversation, he turned to me and said, "Goodnight, baby. Or wait! Goodnight, babeh? Is that it?"

"Yes," I told him, "now never, ever say that again."

[FAILBlog]
[I Can Has Cheezburger]

Image via [I Can Has Cheezburger]

Nutro "Max"

Margaret — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:40:00 EST

Veterinary Pet Insurance compiled a list of the most popular names for dogs and cats in 2008 from its database of 466,000 pets and found the most unusual names while they were at it.

"People" names were the most popular, with Max coming in first for both cats and dogs and Bella, Lucy, and Chloe making both top 10 lists. But some people clearly prefer more creativity in their pet names, judging from the unusual names Edward Scissorpaws, Sir Lix-a-lot, Snoop Kitty Kitty, and Admiral Toot. [MSNBC]

[Image via I Can Has Cheezburger.]

Happy Hump Day!

Dodai — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:10:00 EST

Via ICanHasCheezburger. Thanks to Binderclip for the tip!

I Can Has Dizzertation?

Dodai — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:20:00 EST

Jay Dixit managed to write 1,765 words about the meaning of LOLcats, and his essay was published on Salon over the weekend. Dixit touches on the LOLcat mythology, including Ceiling Cat, lolruses and the LOLcat Bible Translation Project. He delves into the comedic structure and concludes that LOLcats "don't represent cats at all, but people. By using cats, icanhascheezburger can access themes more tragic and poignant than it could using people. You wouldn't enjoy a comic of an actual person fingering a blade and contemplating suicide — but when it's a cat, you can accept it... have seen the lolcats, and they are us." But! At no point does he mention LOLVogue. Fail! [Salon]

Cat On The Street

Sadie — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:45:00 EDT

File under "prayers, answered": the sophisticated street-fashion eye of The Sartorialist meets the adorable dignity of LOL Cats. The result? The Catorialist aka, the best idea in the history of awesome. [The Catorialist]

LOLLost: Srsly, Guiz, Dis Izland Is Weeerd

Dodai — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:30:00 EDT

So, a funny thing happened in the LOLVogue comment thread yesterday. I capped one of the Vogue shots with a Lost reference (isn't dat wer oceanik flite 815 went down?) and some commenters decided that LOLLost should exist. And so they created it! Thanks to commenter stoprobbers, there is now a LOLLost website. Some of the best macros, after the jump: Theyr on ur eyeland, puttin werds on ur servivers.

[LOLLost]

Earlier: LOLVogue: Teh Hare Toss & Teh Bunnee Hop
I Have An Abusive Boyfriend, And He's Coming Home At 8

It Had To Be Done

Dodai — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:40:00 EST

Or at least, it felt that way.

Earlier: Amy Winehouse: "OMG. WTF?"
ANTM: Anorexic Model Is Unbeweavably Racist

LOLVogue: Hungry Moddles & Rorschach Tests

dodai — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST

Did you hear? They seem like harmless fun, but LOLcats can control your mind. What do you think happens when a mashup of LOLCats and Vogue gets made? Find out, after the jump: Once again, we're in ur magazeen, putting werds on your moddles.

Earlier: Bon Joor, C'est Paris LOLVogue Encore!
LOLVogue: Carbs, Botox & Pink-Eye
LOLVogue: Good Help Is Hard To Find
Mon Dieu! C'est French LOLVogue: Shoulders, Champagne and Cigarettes
LOLVogue: Starving Models & Marionettes
LOL'Vogue': Scarves, Silverware & Scooters