LOLmemes
Ah, the lolcats. You either love them or you hate them. And it appears they've spawned an unstoppable juggernaut of lolmemes which takes the style, vocabulary and in-jokes of LOLcats to a variety of other environments and themes, from LOLing the entire Rocky Horror Picture Show to LOL(scientific)Theorists. (Laughing Squid has a good list of the various LOL sites.)
During lunch today I visited LOL80s. It's heavily 80s-music referential, so being a teenager during that decade heightens the experience considerably. Since I turned 15 in 1980 and 25 in 1990, I was in a fine place to have my experience heightened. Like most unedited, user-submitted threads it had offerings ranging from just plain unfunny, to incomprehensible, to mildly amusing, to extremely funny. These three in particular just slayed me:
(Credit: "Not the real Village People")
(Credit: "ThatNickGuy")
(Credit: "Bluski")
Win!!!1!! Srsly!
(There was also a large picture of Kenny G playing his sax, with the caption: "I M N UR ELLEHVADER... SAPPN UR WILL 2 LIV.")
ronnie
Labels: LOLcats
posted by ronnie at
7:02 p.m.
2 Comments:
splain, pls...wot is a lolcat???
born in the 19th century....x.e.
Oh my goodness, X.E. - where to start???
LOLcats are basically photos of cats that people caption with bad (cat-level) grammer and spelling (think Mojo's blog). There are a number of in-jokes that keep cropping up:
"I can has __item__?"
"O rly"? ("Oh, really?")
"I/you has a flavr" (usually the caption on a photo of a cat licking someone or something)
I made this post when I first discovered them... it may help explain the phenomenon.
It's very sweet and silly and good-natured. The motherlode of LOLcats is here. Like dipping into Shakespeare, it takes awhile to adapt one's ear to the language, but it's fun when you do.
ronnie
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