I really have to say

[salinea]

I hate cat macros.

Actually I hate all macros.


Obviously, I'm old.

Comments

[the-corbie.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Obviously, I'm even older. :p

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

You've no idea how lucky you are.

Check out cat_macros out. or any comm with names starting with "lol".
I think even the Language Log has made posts about it (lol singularity of some such).

I miss the day when wittiness was, you know, witty.

[the-corbie.livejournal.com]

Oh, those...

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

yesss

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

Blame 4Chan and Something Awful for those things.

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

...I love cat macros >> Actually, I just love cats? :D;;

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I love cats. In the flesh. Photos of cats in undignified positions with non-sensical words slapped on them just don't strike me as either cute or funny. Sorry. Oldness, and all >_>;;

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

XD Well, it's fine. Everyone has their own likes and dislikes :D

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yeah ^_^

Obviously this is a rant. I never rant, I can rant a little (damnit!)

[shisakura.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes you can! :D Rant more! ;P

[trobadora]

I don't hate them. I just don't... see the point? They're boring.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I used to think that. Then they started being EVERYWHERE. That's when the hatred started. I hate fads.

[catiechu.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this one, and God knows my sense of humor is shot. They're just not clever.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

THANK GOD *glomps*

I'm not sure you sense of humour is as much shot as impossible to understand unless one's in the joke XD

[catiechu.livejournal.com]

The one I will admit to enjoying (albeit with a tinge of guilt, as it's really not that hilarious :() is, "LET ME SHOW YOU MY POKEMANS! My Pokemans, let me show you them." That was fifth grade for me. :(

Haha, I think a lot of it is just absurd re-tellings of everyday situations. XD

[after-nightfall.livejournal.com]

Those are... silly. No, not silly - silly implies something you giggle over and secretly quite like. But that community broke my brain with I can haz blank pls? and went downhill from there. I must be even older than you, because it made me want to gouge out my brain with a rusty spork. Obviously, I have no sense of humour whatsoever left.

(Don't get me wrong, even l33t speak is funny on occasion, like "my darkness is pastede on yay", but there is such a thing as too much.)

At first I thought you meant that you hated macro photos - closeups, and I was going to ask you if you hated itsy bitsy spiders, too. ;-)

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

Yeah! I think ever most of the taglines from F_W like the pasteded on yay were funny, like, the first hundreds times they were used at which point they just become overused drivel, but the macros are even one more step in the idiotness.


Ooooooh cute ickle bittle spider ♥

[redcandle17.livejournal.com]

Cat macros have been overrunning the Internet(or at least my corner of it) recently. I blame Strikethroughgate.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

strikethrough has much to be blamed for, they had started earlier but now it's a tsunami!

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I'll look at a picture of a cat any day of the week. Shit, some days it's the only thing that brightens my mood enough that I don't wish to kill. But lolcatz are really lame. Just gimme the cat pictures, without the mutilated editorial.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

haha, yeah. 'xactly!

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

I'm probably old enough to be your mother, and I love cat macros. :)

*is feeble minded*

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

IAWTC, except for the "old enough to be your mother" bit. >.>

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I had kinda noticed you liked them XD

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

feeble minded=young in the head?

Hey I don't know. It's one of these thing you either get or are incredibly annoyed by ^^

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Second (or third) childhood. :)

And yes...I hate everything that's like cat macros, but for some reason the actual lolcats themselves amuse me. :)

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, someone my age. *Waves*

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

*waves back from the rocker on the virtual front porch*

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

*Smiles*

So, do you know how to set up a free JournalFen account?

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

heh heh. If I was *really* obnoxious, I'd comment with a "do not want" cat macro. (It's a particular genre of cat macro. : )

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

EVIL!!

XD

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

We can be old together! :D

With a few exceptions (some of the ones at lol_history, and a couple Star Trek-related ones that make fun of Kirk's expression) I really don't see what's so funny about them.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I saw a couple of fun one that were pictures of philosophers. Very few. ^^

Yay oldage!

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

There is another community where otherwise serious people go to blow off steam with lolcats and similar things.

http://community.livejournal.com/loltheorists/

[luminaire.livejournal.com]

Oh thank god, I hate them too. We can be old together in our little corner of the internet. XD;

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

we could do an old feast!

[matsukami.livejournal.com]

I really don't care for 4-chan, despite how they're somehow heralded for their humor. Some of it I liked, but most if it is pretty retarded. Or nasty.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

That's what 4-chan is? Now I understand all the bashing.

[matsukami.livejournal.com]

Cat macros is merely a part of 4-chan. The LJ side, perhaps. Encyclopedia Dramatica is another side of them.

[snegurochka_lee]

This post just made me laugh a lot. :) I'm ambivalent about the actual cat macro issue, but they indeed have been everywhere lately, so I appreciate your sentiment. heh.

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

always glad to be of use ;)

Yeah I tend to shrug off things like that unless they become a big sweeping tsunami.

I'm totally the kind of elitist bitch who snobs things because everyone like them. Tooks me the longuest time to warm up to HP :D

Fine

[michel-islor.livejournal.com]

You're so right to hate these!!!

We find them everywhere and it just seems
a lazy way to create something funny. I
just can't understand what can push someone
to use one of these: it is just like telling us
"see, I am too stupid to say something funny
therefore I will show you an animal in an
absurd position and put a sentence on it"

Damn the users of these stuffs! <80)