From this position of relative expertise, I would like to lodge a strong complaint about the quality of the lolcats which have been appearing on ICanHasCheezburger lately. Crafting cat macro isn't really all that difficult. You take a picture of a cat and put a white, block text caption on featuring idiosyncratic but internally consistent spelling and grammar. That's it. It's not hard. But people still have trouble, so allow me to list a few things which are not acceptable lolcat components:
- Speech bubbles
- Motivational poster or 'Breaking News!' formatting
- Full sentences
- Proper grammar/spelling/capitalization
- More than about 10 words
Oh yes, and one more minor point with which people seem to struggle: IF YOUR MACRO CONTAINS ANY ANIMAL WHICH IS NOT A CAT IT IS NOT A GODDAMNED LOLCAT. K. THX. BAI.
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I don't want to be offensive, but I notice a little rigidity in your critique for ICanHasCheezburger.
Change is inevitable. For something recreational like making a picture laughable, I don't think there's anything "not acceptable." It's not like there's ever any rules that were set in stone on how to create lolcat stuff, right? I personally find speech bubbles to be cute haha. x)
Dear Misguided Kathy,
A large part of the charm and humor of lolcats derives from the cats' particularly idiosyncratic language. Without that, your captioned animals are no different from a billion other stupid pictures on the internet, hallmark cards, billboards, whereever. You can go ahead and be amused by whatever you want, but don't call it a lolcat and don't go cluttering up websites that actually have a clearly defined mission.
Hugs and kisses,
Barnes
Oh, I didn't know memes had strict codes to follow. Isn't the act of conformity boring anyway?
So, you don't know what memes are then. They're supposed to be cultural analogs to genes, meaning they are nothing but patterns to follow. And someone who is born with an arm sticking out of his forehead isn't a non-conformist, he's a wretched, malformed abomination.
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