Welcome to my small collection of quality-assured lolcats. If you don't know what a lolcat, image macro (or cat macro) is; well… then you're probably an Internet n00b still using that pre-installed Internet Explorer. But don't despair. If you at least have the humor of a frog, you'll laughing so hard within a minute that those covered abs of yours will be hurting till' next week.

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Lolcats are image macros combining photographs of a cat with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption. The name "lolcat" is a compound word formed from lol and cat.[1][2] The phenomenon is also referred to as Caturday by users of 4chan and, by others, cat macros.[3] Lolcats are created for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums.[4] Lolcats are similar to other anthropomorphic animal-based image macros such as the O RLY? owl,[5] but the cuteness of cats "enhances"[6] the appeal and increasing prominence[7][8][9] of the Internet meme.

The term lolcat gained national attention in the United States when it was covered by Time magazine, [10] which wrote that non-commercialized phenomena of the sort are increasingly rare, stating that lolcats have "a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to [them]."

These images usually consist of a photo of a cat with a large caption characteristically formatted in a sans serif font such as Impact or Arial Black.[11] The image is, on occasion, digitally edited for effect. The caption generally acts as a speech balloon encompassing a comment from the cat, or as a description of the depicted scene. The caption is intentionally written with deviations from standard English spelling and syntax,[11] featuring "strangely-conjugated verbs, but [a tendency] to converge to a new set of rules in spelling and grammar."[12] These altered rules of English have been referred to as a type of pidgin[11] or baby talk.[13] The text parodies the grammar-poor patois stereotypically attributed to internet slang. Frequently, lolcat captions take the form of snowclones in which nouns and verbs are replaced in a phrase.[13] Some phrases have a known source[14] while others seem to be specific to the lolcat form. Common themes include jokes of the form "Im in ur noun, verb-ing ur related noun."[6]. "I has a noun" pictures show a cat in possession of an object while "Invisible noun" show pictures of cats interacting with said invisible object.[6] "My noun, let me show you it/them" pictures are accompanied by cats apparently presenting or offering an object.