British portrait photographer Harry Pointer created a carte de visite series featuring cats posed in various situations in the early 1870s. To these he usually added amusing text … See more

Variations on the lolcat concept include captioning photos of other animals in a similar style (e.g. loldogs for dogs, etc.).
The syntax of lolcat captions was used as the basis for See more

1. ^ Amter, Charlie (December 16, 2007). "Lolcat Bible Translation Project presents the Gospel according to Fluffy". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on December 24, 2007. Retrieved December 23, 2007.
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Lolcat is a compound word made from the acronym "LOL" and "cat". Lolcat images comprise a photo of a cat with a large caption … See more

"Ceiling Cat" is a character spawned by the meme. The original image was an image macro with a picture of a cat looking out of a hole in a ceiling, captioned "Ceiling Cat is watching you masturbate." There followed numerous examples with the format "Ceiling … See more

• List of Internet phenomena
• Cats That Look Like Hitler – a type of LOLcat specifically made to look like Adolf Hitler
• Cute cat theory of digital activism – using lowbrow but popular online subjects for activism See more

• Media related to Lolcats at Wikimedia Commons
• The dictionary definition of lolcat at Wiktionary
• The dictionary definition of lolspeak at Wiktionary See more