Links I Love: I cannot help this…
I swear this is the silliest website known to man.
It is caption crack.
It is silly animal porn. It is humor heroin.
It is everything rolled into one.
It is utter silliness and an absolute timewaster.
And I love it.
Even more interesting, according to the Wordpress webstats, it has consistently been either the first or second fastest growing Wordpress blog of the day for as long as I have informally kept track (since August 07). This means beating out all types of blogs including the hot ones like political sites such as the CNN Political Ticker.
I suppose if I had the gumption to go find the official stats I could prove that this was indeed the fastest growing Wordpress blog around, but it is Friday night and I have to go finish baking a birthday cake for my nephew.
Anyway, the main point is that this crazy little blog is on fire!
It is I Can Has CheezBurger. And when I realized that I was visiting it two and three times a day just to see if new photos had been posted, I knew I was lost.
The entire premise is silly.
You know those photos that you take (come on, everyone does it) of your pets in those compromising positions. Or when they are just being so silly that you cannot stand it? And then later, when you download the photo and look at it and think “ok, what am I ever going to do with this?”
Well, my friend, you submit it to I Can Has Cheezburger, where complete strangers sit up way too late at night trying to think up the wittiest and off the cuff caption they can for photos of strange pets.
If you feel like captioning your own pet photo, you can do that. If you do not have a pet and you feel like captioning photos, there is an entire database of silly photos just sitting, waiting for a creative soul to come along and enter just the right caption.
I think all captions have to run by a censor so as not to offend sensibilities (good choice as far as I am concerned. There is enough anonymous porn online as it is already). But once approved, it gets submitted to the great captioned database in the sky. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The site already has a silly language and syntax that it uses as the inside joke on all the photos (thus the grammatical construction of the site name itself “I can has Cheezburger”) along with a number of long-term jokes that are easy to pick up quickly, like the poor walrus and his ongoing quest for his missing bucket (or bukkit in Cheezburger speak which is officially known as lolspeak).
It is such a silly site. But it is like some type of addictive humor porn. I find myself wandering over there surreptitiously to sneak a peek at the latest photos to see if they make me giggle or really actually laugh out loud.
Just silly, huh?
But you know, there is something to be said for some innocence these days. Everything is so hardcore now. So much death, destruction and mayhem that in all honesty, a little silliness is sometimes really nice. This fits the bill just perfectly for me.
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