LOLCat

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The real reason I started off researching this, was the phenomenon known as LOLCats. From the Wiki...

Lolcats are image macros combining photographs of a cat with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption. The name "lolcat" is a compound word formed from lol and cat.^[1][2] The phenomenon is also referred to as Caturday by users of 4chan and, by others, cat macros.^[3] Lolcats are created for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums.^[4] Lolcats are similar to other anthropomorphic animal-based image macros such as the O RLY? owl,^[5] but the cuteness of cats "enhances"^[6] the appeal and increasing prominence^[7][8][9] of the Internet meme.

The term lolcat gained national attention in the United States when it was covered by Time magazine, ^[10] which wrote that non-commercialized phenomena of the sort are increasingly rare, stating that lolcats have "a distinctly old-school, early 1990s, Usenet feel to [them]."

Of course, here on livejournal, there is the cat_macros community, but a lot more exist (see the foot of that page). They just seem to me to be inane, simple and clever, all at the same time. FTW - For The Win, and Fail - self-explanatory.