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LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

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The linked blog post is just a summary of a longer and detailed Time magazine article found here:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1916286-1,0...

what's up with the date of that article?

interesting. Either a typo or it's meant to correspond to the print date? Perhaps it hasn't been printed yet.

It's from the future!

Of course, it is time magazine.

Surprise, people enjoy websites that make them laugh.

lolcats and failblog require absolutely no intellectual investment at all. It's like eating a nice steak...it triggers that part of your brain that goes "this is good", but doesn't actually require you to do anything.

This does, however, bring up another point...are there any other animals that experience humor?

This gibbon sure as hell appears to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9n_moGyTlw

He didn't found LOLcats, which isn't a company and wasn't started by this man / icanhascheesburger.com, or by The Times (who also publish a LolPets section), but by 4Chan.

Kudos to him for taking something niche and making it accessible to the mainsteam though.

Irony at it's finest: Ben Huh is confused.

It's fitting, not ironic.

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Since no one got my stupid joke :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark

I want to honestly send this guy a $100. I can't count the number of times I've cried due to laughter from reading any one of these sites. The content is amazing.

If you like failblog you may like dontevenreply.com, which is the only other site that produces similar responses in my experience :)

Heck, I (and my friend) was doing pigeon English comedy articles AND hybrid catheads (where the head is half of 2 cat's faces with eyes bulging intermittently), in 1997!

Intended as a helpful correction: You mean 'pidgin English.'

I can haz sup0r successful startups?

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