LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

http://www.techflash.com/LOLcats_continue_to_gain_national_media_exposure_53341932.html

by cwan • 17 years ago

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Maciek416• 17 years ago

The linked blog post is just a summary of a longer and detailed Time magazine article found here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1916286-1,0...

k0n2ad2• 17 years ago

what's up with the date of that article?

pj• 17 years ago

interesting. Either a typo or it's meant to correspond to the print date? Perhaps it hasn't been printed yet.

a2tech• 17 years ago

I can haz sup0r successful startups?

blhack• 17 years ago

Surprise, people enjoy websites that make them laugh.

lolcats and failblog require absolutely no intellectual investment at all. It's like eating a nice steak...it triggers that part of your brain that goes "this is good", but doesn't actually require you to do anything.

This does, however, bring up another point...are there any other animals that experience humor?

frou• 17 years ago

This gibbon sure as hell appears to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9n_moGyTlw

physcab• 17 years ago

I want to honestly send this guy a $100. I can't count the number of times I've cried due to laughter from reading any one of these sites. The content is amazing.

trapper2• 17 years ago

If you like failblog you may like dontevenreply.com, which is the only other site that produces similar responses in my experience :)

timdorr• 17 years ago

Irony at it's finest: Ben Huh is confused.

flipper• 17 years ago

It's fitting, not ironic.

z80002• 17 years ago

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z80002• 17 years ago

Since no one got my stupid joke :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark

nailer• 17 years ago

He didn't found LOLcats, which isn't a company and wasn't started by this man / icanhascheesburger.com, or by The Times (who also publish a LolPets section), but by 4Chan.

Kudos to him for taking something niche and making it accessible to the mainsteam though.

zandorg• 17 years ago

Heck, I (and my friend) was doing pigeon English comedy articles AND hybrid catheads (where the head is half of 2 cat's faces with eyes bulging intermittently), in 1997!

dtby• 17 years ago

Intended as a helpful correction: You mean 'pidgin English.'

LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

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