I held this presentation, as a student on Interactive Media, for my class. We had to choose a relevant media-trend to talk about. I thought to be original by choosing the upcoming lolcats fenomena. :)

1. Trendanalyse

2. Agenda
• Introductie trend
• Oorsprong
• Lolspeak
• Trendpiramide
• Stellingen

3. Introductie
+
LOL
=
LOLCAT
Kattenfoto’s met onderschrift in LOL-speak..

4. Introductie (2)
“They have a life of their own. When we’re not looking, we just know
they’re secretly engaged in human activities - like fixing computers
(..) The rational part of us knows this isn’t so, but somewhere deep
down we want to believe that our cats could really be cyclists. Or
hovercrafts.”

5. Oorsprong
History of LOLCATS (G4TV)

6. Web 1.0
Er verschijnt/verschijnen..
• Duizenden message/image boards met miljoenen topics waar
Image Macro’s worden gepost (vaak als reply)
• Internet slang
– Leetspeak (oorspronkelijk door h4x0rz bedacht, later opgepakt door
gamers)
• OMG, WTF, PWNED
– Chat-taal
• A/S/L
• TTYL
• Image Macro’s met dieren

8. Lolspeak

9. Taal(r)evolutie diagram

10. A guide in lolspeak
1. “That’s a really cute cat. And look, he has a bow on his
head!”
2. “That being the kitty very full of cuteness. And to be with looking! Him gots bowage
on hims head!”
3. “Dat beesing teh kiti vary ful ov kutenis. An to bees lukingz! Hims gotz bowwagez
on hims hed!!”
4. “OMG wau!! Dat beesing a kiti vary ful ov tewtul kutenis!! Bees wif da lukingz! Omg
him gotz da bowwagez on himz hed lyk WTF?!?”
5. “OMG wau!! Dat beesings a kiti vary ful ov tewtul kutenis!!
Bees wif da lukingz!! Omg him gotz da bowwagez on himz
hed lyk WTF?!? OMG I tewtul wuntz to grabz dat kiti and
fuzziez himz awl ovar … him sooooooo mooshy an fullz ov
win!! Don werry lil kiti, I no eetz u! I luvz kitiz! I can has
bunchiz ov dem! Mah kitiz luvz bowwagez too! YETH!!
GIMME!! Kthxbai!”
How to lolspeak – icanhascheezburger.com

11. “(..) giving animals speech and then making them talk
funny is all about distinguishing who is like us and who
is not. Not just who is human and who is not, but also,
who is a native English speaker and who is, say, a
Mexican immigrant.”
~ Marc Shell

12. Groei lolcat macro’s
Lolcat
builder
op
ICHC.co
m
Lolcat
specifieke
sites
ontstaan
Reeksen
ontstaan
Happy (invisible..,
Cat I eated
(eerste cookie)
LOLCAT)
verschijnt

13. Trendpiramide
Micro – Het ontstaan van
LOLCAT- of andere specifieke
Image Macro’s sites / databases
Meso – Het participeren aan
internethumor zonder al te veel
moeite te hoeven doen
Macro – Het collectief komen
tot een globale subculturele
humor

14. Fin

15. Stellingen

16. Bronnen
• http://www.dashes.com/anil/2007/04/cats-
can-has-gr.html
• http://www.icanhascheezburger.com
• http://www.wikipedia.org
• http://www.radioopensource.org/i-can-has-
talking-animals/
• http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=3jDfSqtG2
E4
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leetspeak