Buzz Watch: I Can Has Cheezburger?

Authored by Jay Baage on October 17, 2008 - 10:24am.

Are you working in online media and don't know what an LOLcat is? Shame on you. GETV compares it to going to France and not knowing what’s inside an escargot shell. This is serious business! The I Can Has Cheezburger? (ICHC for short) site is one of the most popular lolcat websites on the internet, receiving as many as 2 million page views per day, according to Wired. The fad has put founders Eric Nakagawa (Cheezburger), a blogger from Hawaii and his partner, Kari Unebasami (Tofuburger) on the VC map. ICHC was reportedly acquired by Ben Huh and his Seattle-based internet company Pet Holdings for $2 million last year. Huh has since continued to snap up other strange but funny websites such as my personal favorite FAIL Blog. Check out my previous coverage of innovative blogs using user generated images here.

Published in DMW Daily, October 17, 2008

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dang jay, slow blog day?

Submitted by muskratboy (not verified) on October 17, 2008 - 12:35pm.

i mean... blogging about LOLcats? isn't this like... 13 months late? the freaking new york times did a story on LOLcats like 2 months ago for pete's sake... you got scooped by the times? way to have your finger on the pulse, man. well, i guess they can't all be winners. next week, there's this new thing called "social networking" and jay thinks it's gonna be HUGE. stay tuned.