Today I finally went to the trouble to figure out what the heck these silly cat images are. The term is lolcats.
Personally, I just think it's stupid. If you think the images are cute, great. I like cats, and cute cat pictures. I do not like having people attempt to address serious subjects on serious newsblogs I like with these pictures as commentary. What is happening here is a reduction of people's capacity to effectively communicate the message they want to convey. They are so obsessed with the results of their neurons repeatedly firing off random interest in these pictures that they can't think of another way to say what they want to say, apparently. Meanwhile, I guess the rest of us aren't "hip" and "mod" since we don't know (or care) what the point of these images are.
I'll be glad when interest in this fades.
2007 called... (Score:1)
dude, lolcats are soooo 2007!
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I have no idea; all I know is I never saw the thing until two or three weeks ago, and suddenly they're everywhere. I'd just as soon have never seen them at all.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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I've written about this phenomenon of suddenly becoming aware of something... see the end of this blog post :) http://thelackthereof.org/TLT/2007.08.08/Hey..._I_Just_Heard_About_That [thelackthereof.org]
example (Score:1)
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All of them.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
oh noes (Score:2)
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