Sunday, October 19, 2008

Understanding Internet Humor and the Introduction of Lol-agrams

Hey All,
"May I please have a cheeseburger?"

I am new to these strange worlds called the internets. I have made my best effort to understand it's customs and I think I have finally made some improvements. I have come to understand lolcats.
LOLcats are funny pictures of cats with captions attributed to them. The captions, meant to represent the cat talking... with improper punctuation and strange syntax...

...LOLcats appeared years ago on an Internet image board called 4chan, when Saturdays were designated as "Caturdays" - a special day to post photos of cats.
4Chan, the place where a kid can be a kid (or whatever the young of puss-dripping trolls are called), bred the adorably cute lolcats, proving once and for all that even in the deepest swamp of human filth an ugly duckling can transform into a diamond in the rough. A very stupid, easily reproducable, and often parodied diamond.

There have been several different versions of the lolcat, most recently with roflrazzi, celebrity take on the format. Upon seeing the new site, I realized how simple it is to assimilate to this internet culture. You simply need to take an already humorous picture, and needlessly caption it with something either redundant or legally retarded. It is with this new knowledge, and the humblest of aspirations, that I present you with the craziest new internet fad sweeping the tubes; lol-agrams. Grandmas with captions.




You're welcome, internet.

Your Loyal Leader,
Gonzalo "I CAN HAS INTERNET FENOMENA" Cordova

1 comment:

iamemiko said...

The butterfly granny is amazing.