I Can Has Cheezburger? (ICHC for short) is the name of a weblog featuring lolcats, which are comical pictures of cats with captions, and other animal images. It was created in 2007 by Eric Nakagawa (Cheezburger), a blogger from Hawaii and his partner, Kari Unebasami (Tofuburger). The website is one of the most popular internet sites displaying lolcats (the term is derived from the common internet abbreviation "LOL", meaning "Laugh Out Loud", comb...
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I Can Has Cheezburger? (ICHC for short) is the name of a weblog featuring lolcats, which are comical pictures of cats with captions, and other animal images. It was created in 2007 by Eric Nakagawa (Cheezburger), a blogger from Hawaii and his partner, Kari Unebasami (Tofuburger). The website is one of the most popular internet sites displaying lolcats (the term is derived from the common internet abbreviation "LOL", meaning "Laugh Out Loud", combined with the word "cat", since the images are intended to be humorous and generally feature cats) receiving as many as 1,500,000 hits per day. ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal-based image macros and lolspeak into mainstream usage.
According to TIME Magazine, the website was acquired by a group of investors in September 2007 for US $2 million.
ICHC was created on January 11, 2007, when Nakagawa posted an image from Something Awful of a smiling grey cat, known as Happycat, with a caption of the cat asking, "I can has cheezburger?" in...
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