About
January 11th, 2007 by cheezburger  | |
WTF is going on?
I Can Has Cheezburger?® is a site that gathers, organizes, tags, and captions the funniest and entertaining pictures of user-generated lolcats and lol* (other animals) from the Internet. All of our lolcats and lol*whatevers are made by you, our users.
Make your own with our Lol Builder >>
The Lol Builder allows you to caption any picture and either submit it to us for moderation, or save it for personal use. Lolspeak is not required.
OMG I need to send u a msg!!!
Obligatory contact form heer.
The history behind lolcats
In the early days, many of the earlier images on this site were found around the internet and forums, such as 4chan, fark, fazed, vwforums, gpforums.
The practice of captioning (specifically, cats) started many years ago on anonymous forums, most prominently called the *chans. Supposedly, the practice of posting and the actual type of these images was termed “Caturday”.
Caturday
- A day when people all around the internet create, submit, send, email and send pictures of lolcat’s around the world.
- Throughout this all the tone of Caturday remains the same: POST SOME ******* CAT PICTURES.
This word has since detached from it’s original context, grown, and evolved into different terms like lolcats, lolrus, loldog and splintered into varying sub-memes and sub-sub-memes which employ different grammatical patterns, different contexts, and sometimes even merges memes. It has since spread through many forums, and online communities such as somethingawful, ebaumsworld.
The meme continues to evolve into many completely tangential and unrelated memes: lolbrarians, lolbees, lolpresidents (my favorite being LOLcode). A new LOL- spinoff is created every week. This is happening throughout the internet by people who are having fun, and being creative, by taking a meme (idea) and applying it in new and creative ways.
On ICHC you may also find non-lolcat pictures — we call this lol* and we tag it treasure.
History of ICHC
The history of ICHC starts with the finding of this picture… and a non-stop laughing fit for approximately 73.5 minutes.
Cheezburger and Tofuburger hatched a plan to share this image on the internets with anyone who cared. The url we chose was of the text of the picture.
After posting this image, it was made known that there were no sites where these images could be found in an organized/tagged fashion. So it was decided to fulfill this need… and so, the blog was born.
A few months after standing the site up — a visitor informed us that this image was created on Something Awful forums. The image was contextually parodied via a cat named Happycat a russian cat food company. We have not been able to contact this person, or the folks of Happycat russian cat food.
Tofu maded this picture below:
Which is inspired by another image of a little girl being denied a pony. WTF? Yes.
Then we found this picture, furthering the documentation of the buger saga.
Then this improperly used Victorian photo was made.
Meta
photo: Cody Klingbeil
thx kevin c. found on boingboingboioioing
Oh noes!!
Someone made this.
Someone also made this.
chz found this in ridemonkey.
ar myspace frend john mades us this pretty awesome picture:
thx john
The ads sucks plzkthx!
The make the page too wide
me no like scolling de sidaways
u pour thing u. u has 2 do the scrollingz siydwayz. my hart bleeedses 4 u….
change your screen res. then…
its not hard
U has bear narrow screen. U livzin in old skool. Get a wizdescreen br0/
not really man. by going widescreen you lose about 25 to 30% of the viewable screen. its squished down vertically and stretched horizontally.
I can has a wish. but I am so poor I can’t afford me own reel pet and have to “use” virtual ones…
i sucks because my money sucks
i has petz but wantz whyd skreen on pooter
lol u pwned roflmao oneoneshift
No monee makes badd sukky sit uashen.
Butt Ai can has cheezburger mayke mah happie.
heer heer!
wow. that’s great!!
Our cat and the snake…
http://www.utrechtskamerkoor.nl/midi/I-has-a-tail.jpg
I hope this one makes it to icanhascheezburger!
cheers,
Rob
Maarssen, Netherlands
LOLcats are wonderful. Thank you for bringing so much lulz to WordPress.com
I think I might have copied some of yr pics by accident when making this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzExCvVkwlY
Livejournal.com did a tribute to this site, sort of. If you go there right now, their home page says “Line is foar more photobucket? We has a photobucket.” Hooray!
Aye, Jules. That’s thanks to Anil Dash’s awesomeness! He loves the lolanimals
This site is using your pics….
http://www.dropline.net/cats/?p=2
I’m pretty sure ICHC allows the free use of all their lolcats across the web. Unless the site is claiming they made the pictures themselves, there’s no harm in it. Remember that all lolcats are usermade and those might even be theirs.
Thx, k for the laffs and kittahs. Mah bucket ovaflos wif grat-i-tude for I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER…
I laughed my butt off at that animal-internet site too!
THAT CARLOS MENCIA PIC MADE ME LOL TILL IT HURT!
Outta cheezburgerz? Go hed … eated kittahs, butt u wil hak up harbls fur nxt hunnert yeers!
hi andrea… yap they are
but mebbe we is moar funs?
defnetly moar funs!
I findz purrfect ICHC pic in teh innertubes, but I haz no way to capshun. Can I givs it to teh peoples here to uz in sum way?? kthxbai
I adore this site, it makes me laugh soooo much!! keep up the excellent work!!
Whach yore name iz????
I luv kitteh iz sooo gud i wee …oh deah!
You guys need to make t-shirts! You make, I buy.
Keep the Lolz comin.
What a great idea - in ‘real’ i.e. larger sizes
Congrats on making it into Time Magazine this month!
I meant this week. Time is a weekly mag, not monthly. My bad. I’ve only been reading it since I was nine, and I got that wrong. O boy.
How do you send in a picture?
I has a love for this sitez!
Okay, the reason I clicked on this site was because it was a top WordPress site. I had seen it before on WordPress’s list of most popular, but I was like: yeah, that makes no sense, I’m not visiting. Well, my curiosity finally peaked, so I come over to the site and I’m like: wtf is this place? It has a bunch of weird pics and it makes no sense! I Can Has Cheeseburger? WTF is that! So after looking at the little cheesburgers everywhere I had to go find the about page (here) and thank god I did! OMG that first cat with the I Can Has Cheeseburger? is so f**king hilarious! I did, I laughed out loud! Does that make me a nerd or does that mean that All our base belong to the internets has cheeseburger? (Okay, does anyone get the joke I just made???) Or am I too old school for ya?
You not too oldschool, although is a tinny bit since i herd that. AWSUM!!!!!!1!!!!!!11!1!!
You should add a little bit about who you are and where you’re from. Your site gives me a welcomed break and makes me laugh
I heart ICHC!!! Moar plz
I can has ICHC merchandize?? WANT!!!!!!!!!!!
ICHC FTW! <3
Pretty much the best web site ever. Thank you.
icanhascheezburger makes my overnight shifts that much better! keep the lolcats coming!! :o)
U guise needa link to ur buttenz page so I cn find it kthx! I maded you a blog post for happy buttenz, but then I publiksed it hear insted.
U cn find it, iz hear - http://tedalog.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-haz-buttenz-yayyy.html I haz bin a clevr kitteh you may insert cheezburgr now.
Mah blog post, let me show it to you, kthxbye!
Ok. How do I learn how to read this short cut language or whatever it is called. I know some of it but not much.
thank you. this site rulz
How about making this into a lolcatbook?
I’d buy it.
i r luvin dis site so much. maeks uz laff till teers r rollin n sidz r hurtin. britenz ma day evry tym i r vizitin. Pics r orsum n commentz histercl.
ha!
I took that “I has cheeseburger” photo of the cat with the cheeseburger on his back awhile back for stuffonmycat.com. It was all before the lolcat craze. Guess it worked out great!
His name Loki for all the trend researchers out there.
It’s the concept of feeding an entire cheeseburger to a cat that thrills me.
I heart U sew much!!!1!
Seriously, this has got to be one of the best sites, EVER. I use Stumble! on Mozilla Firefox, and awhile back I stumbled on one of the pages here - I’ve been hooked ever since! LOLcats rule! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
I’z a nooby here, jus wan say hai guise, kthxbai.
I am SOOO addicted to this webpage!!!!
truly one of the “happy” places to go…Thnxzu
Thiz sight iz roxxorz
iz gives me reeson to lives
duz not Richard Scarry sue over banner - or did sumone just axe that…
LOLburger says biasing at cats. Am have boycutting.
LuLz~! X3
I luffs you ever so much for dedicating a site to LOLcats. I luffs you like a fat boi luffs kake!
I just found your site and I love it!! I have 5 caats and 4 dogs so I know how funny their antics can be!! Mahalo for this site!!
I can has comment onna vote page?
Also, thas mai kitteh onna vote page….(iz yur name onnit?). Hez callded Captain Howdy. Thaynx fer capps meowy. Nao hez internets starr!!
yeah!
I can’t believe how this site has infiltrated my life and the lives of my good friends. It’s like we have our own Cheezburger-speak. It’s a bonding experience. Keep ‘em coming!