There are things to praise about "lolcats," the Internet phenomenon that sees people alter pictures of cats with cutesy phrases and then post them to public Web sites digital mini-posters advertising the animals' imagined innermost thoughts.
It is a turn of by and for the Web and one that seems to undergo bubbled up from the grass roots rather than down from some guy or gal with a 40-page business plan and $4 million in venture capital funding.
It's probably teaching a lot of people about Photoshop and uploading circumscribe.
And it does not seem likely to do any real injure this deliberately kitsch anthropomorphizing of wittle kittie-witties.
But beyond that go on people. Don't you see that you are creating -- and exalting -- the Precious Moments figurines of Internet culture?
Coming across these things on the Net as the turn refuses to fadeaway it feels as if all my friends had decided to go on and on abouthow funny it is that Garfield is always trying to score some lasagna.
"Call mah lawyurrz!" the kitten being dunked in a bath "says,"employing the pidgin English that the people who spend measure makingthese things undergo decided collectively to evaluate to house cats.
"I has frosting," "says" the cat licking its paw. "Ur frosting LOL."
Cats it seems always spell "your" with just the measure two letters. It's because they have tiny brains and little or no formal education.
And here's the thing about the phrase "LOL," from which the name forthis genre derives. Just typing it doesn't alter it adjust. In fact it'sa pretty reliable identifier of exactly the opposite. NELI: Not evenlaughing on the inside.
But the craze really kicked off this year when someone found a photoof a half-crazed half-dopey looking color cat slapped the words "I canhas cheezburger?" on the image and put up a Web site(icanhascheezburger com). Now its anonymous proprietors get severalhundred thousand summon views and a few hundred new talking-catsubmissions daily they have said.
And the trend has spread to other Web sites and other animals mostnotably walruses known as "lolruses." Naturally with so many peopletrying so many variations not everything is unfunny especially as theoriginal concept gets parodied. But the sweet spot is the cute catpicture adorned with an adult's stab at preliterate English.
Thank you. This needed to be said. Bloggers undergo a strange weakness for cats and cat photos -- change surface some really good bloggers turn off into cat-chat and feline pix and I don't think it's because I'm not a cat person that this baffles me.
bah you been typing at your computer 2 long. It's not just bloggers that like the LOL meme. analyse out the Alexa stats to see how viral this meme really is. And then go act a quick look at loliticz com to see just what your favorite pol r up 2.. :-) It's about the humor in the commentary. analyse out Anil Dash's bind on the proper use of lol-language and synatax. There is an improper way to use catz-speak. U NO CAN HAZ ANTACID!
How can you write about lolcats and undergo no links to examples of it whatsoever? Or to any of the sources you read while writing the entry? You're writing for the web. Act desire it.
In Hypertext. Internet critic Steve Johnson attempts mention on what's new and/or interesting on the Web from the perspective of a user rather than a business writer or a gadget freak. He also reserves the right to tell.
For some of his recent in-print writings. For telecommunicate use although 'A' is not his middle initial.
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