The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
Little Big Planet Ventures Into the Real World
If you’re a fan of Little Big Planet, you will instantly recognize this as a real life version of the irresistible little munchkins known as sackboys and sackgirls. Yellpuppy lovingly creates each one of these by hand.
More Cute Pets
If you haven’t already suffered a pet overdose from the likes of LOLCats and Cute Overload, here’s another site to get your fix. At ultra kawaii the “goal is to showcase the cutest pets on the planet”. From user submitted videos to free tidbits like the embeddable “hi’ya bunny” you see above, ultra kawaii is proof positive that the Hello Kitty mind experiment is in full swing.
Little French Girl Kills With Cuteness
A little French girl called Capucine has melted the hearts of Netizens around the globe. Prepare to be enchanted by her tale set in a fantastic world of baby monkeys, witches, crocodiles and magic powers. Fortunately for the non Francophones, there are subtitles. Let’s pray this overdose of cuteness doesn’t launch some sort of newfangled cross-meme between adorable kids and the infamous LOL cats.
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I Can Has Racks?
Cute Overload, the oh so aptly named site where lover of all things nauseatingly cute can get their fix of furry (and not so furry) animals now has en entire category of photos dedicated to the latest Web feline obsession: Cats ‘n’ Racks. From tiny kittens to various other random animals like snakes or birds, they all have one thing in common: they like to play with, rest on, or nestle in between their female owner’s comfy love mounds. You would think the LOL cat phenomenon would have turned people off from this whole cat obsession, but apparently the reverse seems to be happening.
You Can Has LOL Cats?
All photos: icanhascheezburger.com
If you can make any sense of the title you can skip this post, if not, read on. Welcome to the quirky, cute and often hilarious world of lolcats. The idea behind lolcats (“lol”=”laugh out loud” + “cats”) is simple enough, take a photo of a cat, slap a caption with poor spelling and grammar on it and voilà, you get anthropomorphic humor for the Internet generation. Pictured above, the ultra popular lolcat that sparked the creation of the official I Can Has Cheezburger? site and spawned a bevy of sites featuring not only felines but all sorts of animals.
An excerpt from an article in Time:
It’s easier to show lolcats than to explain it. The oldest known example—which probably dates to 2006—is an image of a chubby gray kitty looking at the camera and asking plaintively, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? Later came a shot of a kitten in a state of feline outrage, standing over a plate of what look like clementines and meowing DO NOT WANT. A ginger cat caught in midleap, hind legs pedaling furiously, appears over the words INVISIBLE BIKE. A fierce-looking tabby crouches in a well-stocked refrigerator: IM IN UR FRIDGE EATIN UR FOODZ. You get the idea. These home-made cartoons seem to lift the veil on a truth that we all quietly suspected anyway: cats are small, childish, sentient beings, mischievous and innocent at the same time.
Lolcats has a mindless, goofy quality that’s deceptively simple. Every one of the examples cited above is part of a dense web of reference and
self-reference that only people who spend way too much time online can
fully appreciate. The IM IN UR FRIDGE lolcat, for example, is a nod to
a screen shot from a video game, much circulated on the Web for its
brainless quirkiness, in which one player says to another, I’M IN UR
BASE, KILLING UR DOODS. Part of the lolcats’ appeal lies in the way it
domesticates the wild linguistic frontier of the Internet, rife with
chat abbreviations, hacker acronyms, typos and trans-hemispherical
East-West garblings.
Update (June 5, 2008):
It seems like the obsession with pets as miniature entertainers on the Web just keeps growing, proof of which is the collection of videos related to animals too exhausted to prop themselves up and the inevitable ensuing “oh, that’s so adorable” comments.
You Can Has LOL Cats?
All photos: icanhascheezburger.com
If you can make any sense of the title you can skip this post, if not, read on. Welcome to the quirky, cute and often hilarious world of lolcats. The idea behind lolcats (“lol”=”laugh out loud” + “cats”) is simple enough, take a photo of a cat, slap a caption with poor spelling and grammar on it and voilà, you get anthropomorphic humor for the Internet generation. Pictured above, the ultra popular lolcat that sparked the creation of the official I Can Has Cheezburger? site and spawned a bevy of sites featuring not only felines but all sorts of animals.
An excerpt from an article in Time:
It’s easier to show lolcats than to explain it. The oldest known example—which probably dates to 2006—is an image of a chubby gray kitty looking at the camera and asking plaintively, I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER? Later came a shot of a kitten in a state of feline outrage, standing over a plate of what look like clementines and meowing DO NOT WANT. A ginger cat caught in midleap, hind legs pedaling furiously, appears over the words INVISIBLE BIKE. A fierce-looking tabby crouches in a well-stocked refrigerator: IM IN UR FRIDGE EATIN UR FOODZ. You get the idea. These home-made cartoons seem to lift the veil on a truth that we all quietly suspected anyway: cats are small, childish, sentient beings, mischievous and innocent at the same time.
Lolcats has a mindless, goofy quality that’s deceptively simple. Every one of the examples cited above is part of a dense web of reference and self-reference that only people who spend way too much time online can fully appreciate. The IM IN UR FRIDGE lolcat, for example, is a nod to a screen shot from a video game, much circulated on the Web for its brainless quirkiness, in which one player says to another, I’M IN UR BASE, KILLING UR DOODS. Part of the lolcats’ appeal lies in the way it domesticates the wild linguistic frontier of the Internet, rife with chat abbreviations, hacker acronyms, typos and trans-hemispherical East-West garblings.
Update (June 5, 2008):
It seems like the obsession with pets as miniature entertainers on the Web just keeps growing, proof of which is the collection of videos related to animals too exhausted to prop themselves up and the inevitable ensuing “oh, that’s so adorable” comments.
