Wall Street Journal Discovers LOLcats

The new hip topic at the Wall Street Journal‘s ‘Personal Journal’ is LOLcats. Specifically, the story behind popular website I Can Has Cheezburger. Writer Aaron Rutkoff even writes it out so that the non-‘net using readers can understand:

Mr. Nakagawa’s simple Web site has become the center of the “LOLcats” phenomenon, a booming online subculture built around digital images and deliberately bad grammar. There’s not much to it: Take a digital photo — often one of household pets, particularly cats — and purposefully place misspelled text on top.

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