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Thread #103749   Message #2940475
Posted By: Alice
05-Jul-10 - 11:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: News of Note (was 'I Read it . . .')
Subject: RE: BS: News of Note (was 'I Read it . . .')
Musical Kludge is at a web site called There I Fixed It, a division of I Can Has Cheezburger, home of the LOLCats.

Here is a news article about cute animal pictures on the web and their place in internet culture:

CNN.com Why We Love Cute Animals Online
July 2, 2010, by Damon Brown

(CNN) -- Had your fix of LOLCats today? If you did, you're one of 16 million unique visitors hitting I Can Has Cheezburger, which features cat photos with cutesy baby-talk captions, and its affiliated sites every month.

The New York Times recently profiled web entrepreneur Ben Huh, whose $10,000 purchase of the little cute-picture website has evolved into a multimillion dollar empire of 53 sites and several best-selling books.

However, the obsession with cute animal media is hardly anything new. Back in the '70s, we had the quickly clichéd "Hang In There!" posters with an animal, usually an adorable tabby or a gray kitty, clinging to a tree branch for dear life.


Rest of the article here.. click