Top ten Internet memes

Lolcats

Lolcats -- the captioning of amusing photos of cats -- are our favourite of all memes here at Crave. We regularly check the main lolcat Web site, icanhascheezburger.com, for new content.

Sometimes referred to as 'cat macros', lolcats build on the cuteness of cats and kittens by using language, a sort of pidgin, presumed to be typical of what a cat would sound like if it could speak. For instance, "Hello, I would like to eat a cheeseburger," becomes, "Oh hai, I can has cheezburger?"

Wikipedia has one of the best descriptions of how certain lolcats are made: "Another common lolcat displays a cat with a specific look, which is described by X, and the text, "Xcat is not amused" or "Your offering pleases Xcat." A version of this is also stated as "X cat is X," where X is an adjective."