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July 26, 2007
LOLCats r In ur magazine, taking ur column inches
LOLCats ahev finally hit the big time with an article in, well, Time. Reminds me of one of my favorite XKCD cartoons:
And speaking of nerd jokes, these are really funny.
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I've been waiting for the day when I'd be able to post this on your blog. May it be soon!
Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | Jul 26, 2007 11:58:46 AM
This reminds me of yesterday's Bad Reporter, in which the election could be decided by the Stuff on My Candidate website.
Posted by: Tom Hilton | Jul 26, 2007 12:25:36 PM
Ah, Time. The sense of a dinosaur becoming extinct is almost palpable. I particularly love the way that, in a piece posted on a website in 2007, they can say: "It's easier to show lolcats than to explain it" and then not include a single LOLCat picture.
Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Jul 26, 2007 1:42:47 PM
I was stunned to discover that my MySpace/YouTube/FaceBook - drenched 15-y.o. offspring had never heard of LOLCats.
This confirms it: I am now officially even more utterly unhip than I ever thought possible. Apparently, "unhipness" can be conferred on a particular phenomenon even if the "hip" have never heard of it so as to declare it "unhip" as soon as it appears in Time.
And, yes, it hurt my brain to type that.
Posted by: Captain Goto | Jul 26, 2007 1:47:37 PM
Goto:Hipness is not in the 12-17 age bracket. I don't think it ever was, but that's just my opinion. I can confirm talking to my 17 year old cousin he had no idea what a LOLcat is, and yeah, he's another one of the MySpace now Facebook horde.
In that age bracket, kids are so obsessed with not being kids that they dismiss anything that can be perceived as being "kiddy". LOLcats are a function of that. Hipness, to me is about setting trends, and that's not something that the teenage set has ever been known for.
It's the 21-30 bracket that sets the trends, and that's where LOLcats (or Cat Macros, is another term for them) have really took route.
In short, it's not about MySpace, it's about BoingBoing.
BTW, your nick is so hipster ironic zen cool that I don't think you have anything to worry about in that regard :)
Posted by: Karmakin | Jul 26, 2007 2:03:07 PM
It's the 21-30 bracket that sets the trends, and that's where LOLcats (or Cat Macros, is another term for them) have really took route.
Hipness isn't about the 21-30 bracket, and it isn't about the mass hallucination events called 'trends'. It's an objective quality, defined solely and entirely by what I think is cool.
Posted by: Tom Hilton | Jul 26, 2007 3:28:42 PM
And now LOLGenesis: "I can has light?"
Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Jul 26, 2007 7:26:39 PM
From Genesis to Revelations: "I is in ur apoklips killin ur hethns".
Posted by: Tom Hilton | Jul 26, 2007 7:33:38 PM
Let's not forget LOL Toddlers.
(Okay ... shameless blogwhore. Sorry.)
Posted by: Mark D | Jul 27, 2007 2:08:38 PM
i'm in my early 50s, so i'm too old -- and probably too wise, if age has anything to do with it -- to be concerned about looking hip to people.
and lolcats -- which i found earlier this week -- is hilarious in a very silly way.
if you folks need a good laugh, go to it. hell, make one yourself.
OR:
ezz, i am in ur commentz sekshunn, rwiting sutff.
Posted by: harry near indy | Jul 27, 2007 4:49:03 PM
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