LOL Cats a Modern Art Form?

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Have you ever been scanning pictures anywhere on the internet and come across a picture of a cat with some sort of badly spelled sentence on it? Weird, I know, but if you have, you’ve just stumbled across an infamous LOL cat.

I’m sure many people have seen countless LOL cats, or maybe have even been to the  LOL cat website, I Can Has Cheezburger. The site features daily updates of new and improved LOL cat pictures. Some are posted, while others are created right there on the site. (That’s the cool part — you can take a regular old picture of a cat right off the site, and then put it through the LOL cat builder to make your own picture. I’ve done it. Don’t judge me.)

This is one of my all time favorites.

When it comes down to it, LOL cats are funny. They entertain us. They make us laugh. They can even pick you up when you’re feeling down. But the real question is — Should we consider an LOL cat a form of art?

You could argue yes. There is quite the creative process happening with each picture. Not only do we rely on the photographer to provide us with something hilarious, but we also must then come up with some sort of witty caption…and include horrible grammar, of course.

You could also argue no. You could say it’s just another ludicrous thing we have created to entertain ourselves out of boredom. Some people, and I won’t judge too harshly here, have taken the LOL cat a little too far. I was curiously interested to find out that some of these people have taken the time to translate the entire bible into LOL cat speak. (That’s the horrible spelling language on all the pictures.) If you really want to go that far, check it out.

But, not to get off topic. Do you think LOLz are a modern form of art? What’s your favorite LOL cat? You can tell me. I won’t judge you.