LOLcats

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. Anyone with elementary skills in Adobe’s Photoshop or Microsoft’s Paint software can make their own. Nearly 9 months after launching icanhascheezburger.com, Mr. Nakagawa’s site receives around 200K unique visitors and a 500K page views each day.

hat tip to the new owner or trying to be more attuned to the times?

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