lolcat
Sign in to savethumb|A lolcat meme using the "In ur ..." format, and employing misspellings for humorous effect A lolcat (pronounced ), or LOLcat, is an image macro of one or more cats. Lolcat images' idiosyncratic and intentionally grammatically incorrect text is known as lolspeak.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- image macro
- Named after
- Cat
- Depicts
- Cat
- Image
- Wikicat-keyboard.jpeg
- Has parts of class
- language variety
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- inception
- 2006-00-00
- Commons category
- Lolcats
- location of formation
- 4chan
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- History
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- Recurring characters
- Offshoots and parodies
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thumb|A lolcat meme using the "In ur ..." format, and employing misspellings for humorous effect A lolcat (pronounced ), or LOLcat, is an image macro of one or more cats. Lolcat images' idiosyncratic and intentionally grammatically incorrect text is known as lolspeak.
Lolcat is a compound word of the acronymic abbreviation LOL (laughing out loud) and the word "cat". A synonym for lolcat is cat macro or cat meme, since the images are a type of image macro and also a well-known genre of Internet meme. Lolcats are commonly designed for photo sharing imageboards and other Internet forums.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “lolcat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.