LOLCats study mind-control at Yale
A bit of vindication today.
It was two weeks ago that Trish saw a picture of a cat on my laptop and exclaimed “No more LOLCats!” She is so annoyed with the cats (or rather the frequency with which I will make a cultural reference to one) that even an analysis of the visual rhetoric involved won’t warm her up to the topic.
Well, apparently there is a reason, and Yale researchers have provided it: Evolution Explains Why Lolcats Control Your Mind
Perhaps that is why Rae Maor predicted (shouting “LOLCATS will not die”, I might add) that 2008 will not see the end of our anthropomorphized friends.
Ahh, now that is nice. So Trish, this one is for you. I R B lulzin thrus the O-8s.
January 28th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
My relationship with LOL cats is much like the Dunecat and the Purrito. I want so much too be free of them but am stuck in the fuzzy-tube-sock of internet memes that forces me to look.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:51 am
too good. my oh my that is funny as hell.
February 11th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Oh Hai! Cats, the internet, and tactical communities. Joshua Green in receiver magazine, Fall 2007
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