The origin
Cat photographs were captioned in a deliberately broken dialect that came to be called lolspeak.
How it spread
A dedicated site brought the format to a mass audience in 2007 and made image macros a mainstream form.
What it means
The foundation of the image macro. Almost every later caption format descends from this one.
Follow the source
Short editorial summary written by Random Access Memes from the sources above; the wording is ours, not theirs. Every link was checked for a live response on September 13, 2026.
