lolcats

History of teh LOLcats

Teh LOLcats, dey has a history ...

A lolcat (pronounced /ˈlɒlkæt/ LOL-kat), or LOLcat, is an image macro of one or more cats. Lolcat images' idiosyncratic and intentionally grammatically incorrect text is known as lolspeak.^[1]

Lolcat is a compound word of the acronymic abbreviation LOL (laughing out loud) and the word "cat".^[2]^[3] A synonym for lolcat is cat macro or cat meme, since the images are a type of image macro and also a well-known genre of Internet meme.^[4] Lolcats are commonly designed for photo sharing imageboards and other Internet forums.
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