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LOLcats

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Captioned cats. Visible caption: cat / cat.zip — Compressed cat
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cat / cat.zip
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Captioned cats. Visible caption: And now u iz acquired — Acquired cat
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And now u iz acquired
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Sister Felicity Immaculata, Mother Superior of the Order of Eternal Indifference...
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Sister Felicity Immaculata, Mother Superior of the Order of Eternal Indifference, sends you blessings on this day
retained Know Your Meme source page and original visible marks.
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MOOOOAAAAARRRRR
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Opera Cat Wants: MOOOOOOOOOOAR!
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Give him a minute
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WAIT / I’ll fix it
retained Know Your Meme source page and original visible marks.
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Waiting for caturday
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Waiting for Caturday...
retained Know Your Meme source page and original visible marks.
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Four panels of a black-and-white cat answering Kitty I.T., ending “Have you tried pushing it off the counter?” — Have you tried the cat-approved troubleshooting step?
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The polite support script builds toward the wrong species’ solution. Instead of restarting the device, the cat recommends the one intervention it knows best: gravity. Ordinary spelling replaces classic lolspeak, but the imaginary feline profession does the same comic work.
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Two cats on opposite sides of glass with “ur passwerd is FAIL” and “entry are denied.” — This login has a very furry firewall
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A paw meets an invisible barrier, and the caption supplies a software explanation. The cat inside is suddenly the security system; the cat outside apparently needs better credentials. The spectacularly unhelpful grammar makes the refusal feel even more personal.
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A black cat in a Darth Vader helmet: “I FIND UR LACK OF TUNA DISTURBING.” — The dark side has a catering complaint
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Vader’s ominous complaint becomes a very small food dispute. The helmet lends authority; the tuna immediately spends it. The cat does not have to act threatening for the mismatch between cosmic menace and an empty bowl to land.
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About & sources

Cat photographs speak in deliberately broken English, making the captioned animal into a playful narrator.

Date

4chan Caturday circulation reported around 2005; LOLcats.com registration documented June 14, 2006.

History

Know Your Meme reports Caturday roots around 2005 but gives 2006 as its entry year and documents a June 14 website registration plus a September 12 dictionary entry. Here 2006 marks identifiable spread of the label, not the invention of humorous cat pictures.

Know Your Meme — LOLcats

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