I friend of mine recently started to send me funny pictures of cats. They made me laugh, so I started to look around for more, and soon found out there is a whole trend called lolcats (also known as cat macros).
Anil Dash has a great post on the phenomenon, and Wikipedia has a quite good article about lolcats. Also, Urban Dictionary has a few entries on lolcats and cat macros. The origins are discussed by Linguistic Mystic here - the forum without name in the article is 4chan.org.
Even the news have picked them up. Here are articles from Wall Street Journal, The Star and News.com.au just to pick a few.
This is enough for this post, but there will be more on this subject in future posts. Including links, pictures and videos.
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