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LOLcat

Brainrot Score: 6.5 ⓘOBSERVED
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FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: LOLcat CultureCLUSTER: LOLcat/Lolspeak Genre

A cat photo captioned with deliberately broken, phonetically-spelled English ("lolspeak"), one of the internet's foundational and most enduring meme formats.

EXPLAINER

Tad I Guess · original source ↗

EXPLAINER

boingboingtv · original source ↗

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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"She posted a lolcat with the caption 'I are serious cat.'"

LORE & ORIGIN

Emerged in the mid-2000s from image-board culture, popularized widely by sites like I Can Has Cheezburger, establishing an entire distinctive captioning dialect still referenced today.

FIRST SEEN
2005
PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)
2005-2012 (Peak), recirculated ongoing
CURRENT STATUS
Legacy / Decaying Slang
Related To:
Leer en español →Lire en français →日本語版を読む →한국어판 보기 →Ler em português →阅读中文版 →

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CNno fixed local term →
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EDITORIAL ESTIMATE
CULTURE CATEGORY
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