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LOLCat Family Tree Illustrates Cats 'Can Has History' Too

by Tim Stevens on January 26, 2010 at 09:40 AM

Of all the Internet memes that have come and gone in the years we've been online, few have provided more laughs than LOLCats -- the bizarre but compelling act of taking silly pictures of cats and applying even sillier captions. While there is some historic basis to the trend, it was all created by Happycat -- at least, it was according to this family tree created by a student named Helene Dams at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart.

Helene has designed a sort of fanciful conceptualization tying the most popular LOLCats together, called 'I Can Has History.' Sometimes the family ties here are logical, like Limecat being the father of Lemoncat and Orangecat, but the relation between others is a little less clear, like Hulk Cat spawning Groovy Cat. We won't argue with the means, we're just here to laugh at the results. [From: I Can Has History, via Neatorama]

Tags: funny, happycat, helene dams, HeleneDams, I can has cheezburger, I can has history, ICanHasCheezburger, ICanHasHistory, lolcat, lolcats, merz academy, MerzAcademy, top

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