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Lolcats To Lolpolitics

Dis iz Bananas?

Lolcats has stepped up its game from baby talk kitties to U.S. and international politics. As described in this excerpt from the collective wisdom of Wikipedia:

Lolcats are images combining photographs of a cat with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption, said to have its origins in the 4chan imageboards as the Caturday phenomenon. The name “lolcat” is a portmanteau of “lol” and “cat”.^[2][3] The phenomenon is also referred to as cat macros. Lolcats are created for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums. Lolcats are similar to other anthropomorphic animal-based image macros such as the O RLY? owl.

The term lolcat gained national attention in the United States when it was covered by Time magazine, 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].” The superimposed text is assumed to be uttered by the cat in the photograph. There are parallels between the language used in lolcats and baby talk, which owners of cats often use when talking to them

Lolcat is now taking new forms, using different types of pictures in the same format. All things stay the same but the picture is not a cat but something else, for example a character for a tv show and the accompanying text is relevant to that. Forums and online communitys often create these often the adpting the name LOL(relevant subject).

Slate has a slide-show.

Now with a political twist, the lolmovement has political junkies rofling. Lolpresident has gained some steam but is almost too obvious, and the Australian Green Senators are even having a lolcompetition. With elections heating up, lolpolitics are crashing the political stage.

Here’s a political sampling from across the web:

As if the political process isn’t goofy enough.
Stay tuned for more of the best.

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See also: loliticz

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http://lolpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dick-dun-lockded-meh-out-again.jpg
http://lolpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/gfbckisskiss.jpg
http://lolpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/i-r-hitler-invading-yr-contrys.jpg
http://lolpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/carefuls.jpg
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http://lolpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/shaq-bush.jpg
http://lolpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/taked.JPG
http://lolpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/halp.jpg
http://lolpresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/albino.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51685596@N00/495212940/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51685596@N00/495212954/
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http://missdissent.livejournal.com/110500.html
http://pics.livejournal.com/micheleonelonly/pic/00008b4h/
http://community.livejournal.com/lolitics/

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