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It’s LOLcats’ way ‘til payday

By Ellie White

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Published: January 23, 2011

Updated: January 23, 2011

The original. icanhascheezburger.com

I don’t know anything about how websites work or how they make inconceivable amounts of money. I do know plenty about cute kittens, however, and this is something Cheezburger Network has cashed in on. Big time.

The Seattle-based website raised $30 million in funding in order to satisfy the most obvious human necessity: to upload and appreciate cute pictures of cats with LOL-worthy captions. NBD or anything.

Cheezburger’s investors believe the website has what it takes to become the largest humor network out there. After all, within the last three years the website has expanded to include every niche in the hilarious world of the internet including LOLdogs (copy cats), FAIL blog, all your Meme needs, as well as celebrity and history related humor.

LOLcats success is due to a fail-proof formula which includes pictures of cats, terrible grammar, pop culture references, and the opportunity for anyone to upload and caption their own pictures with ease. Describing this website in detail would be like trying to describe the Louvre in ten words or less.

Fact: Cat's have terrible grammar.

Mock me if you want, but if you’ve ever spent an extended period of time on Cheezburger Network you would know what it feels like to have the entire LOL universe at your fingertips. I liken the experience to the movie War Games when Matthew Broderick accidentally hacks into the US governments’ missile defense system thinking he is playing a computer game.

Flawed eighties technology aside, I Can Has Cheezburger amasses the funny so you don’t have to waste your time looking for it, and that is why LOLcats rules the internet universe right now and shows no sign of slowing down. LOLcats is OOC, SRSLY.

2CFW http://icanhascheezburger.com/

  1. February 26th, 2011 at 08:02 | #1

    Your website is actually great. Many thanks for that.