LOLCats, Rick Rolling and Other 'Net Trends Celebrated at ROFLCon
by Tim Stevens, posted Apr 29th 2008 at 1:12PM
If you've ever laughed at a LOLCat or been the victim of a vicious Rick Rolling, then you've helped to perpetuate one of the countless memes that are sweeping the Internet daily. A meme is just a silly Internet fad, usually appearing one day and totally passé the next, its transience powered by the speed of the 'Net. But, last weekend many of those memes earned a bit of respect in the real world at the first ever ROFLCon -- a convention honoring funny Internet trends -- in Cambridge, Mass.On display were seminars on how to make money from memes (called: "YOU CAN GET PAID FOR THIS?"), a case-study on LOLCats called "I Can Haz Case Study?", and some that were slightly more serious, like one on the social structures of the cult followings memes achieve. Urlesque was there and went around asking many of the personalities at the Con to fill in the blank: "I Can Has _______?" Photos were taken of the responses for great humor, posted in a gallery here, and we've posted our favorite to the right there. What's yours? [Source: Urlesque]
