Very different from simple pictures of cats on the interweb, lolcats (aka cat macros or kittah) are reaching critical mass.
A lolcat consists of a cat photo, captioned with poor grammar and spelling - normally to indicate the cat's thought process.
First there was 'i made you a cookie, but i eated it', and a number of 'i'm in ur computer upgrading ur RAM', but now it's almost impossible to open Firefox without ceiling cat peering out.
The internet is a series of tubes, tubes full of kittens. Take photo-sharing site flickr, it's about 20% holiday snaps, 29% 'serious art photography' (some great some awful), 1% serupticiously taken camera-phone pictures of large breated women and a whopping 50% cats!
So much so that there are constant discussions amongst po-faced members about there being "a need for a cat free version of flickr". So much so that there's a cottage industry growing up that blogs pictures of cats from flickr, just picking the cutest and the funniest - and I know because I do it myself.
Dogs don't have the same qualities that make you photograph them, or squeal with delight at grammatically incorrect captions.
LOL!! I IZ IN UR PC BLOGGING ABOUT UR CATZ!!!
