LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

lolcats and failblog require absolutely no intellectual investment at all. It's like eating a nice steak...it triggers that part of your brain that goes "this is good", but doesn't actually require you to do anything.

This does, however, bring up another point...are there any other animals that experience humor?

Re: LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

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Post by frou » Sun, Aug 16, 2009, 4:31 PM UTC

blhack wrote: post #5

Surprise, people enjoy websites that make them laugh. lolcats and failblog require absolutely no intellectual investment at all. It's like eating a nice steak...it triggers that part of your brain that goes "this is good", but doesn't actually require you to do anything. This does, however, bring up another point...are there any other animals that experience humor?

This gibbon sure as hell appears to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9n_moGyTlw

Re: LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

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Post by k0n2ad » Sun, Aug 16, 2009, 5:05 PM UTC

Maciek416 wrote: post #3

The linked blog post is just a summary of a longer and detailed Time magazine article found here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1916286-1,0...

what's up with the date of that article?

Re: LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

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Post by pj » Sun, Aug 16, 2009, 5:14 PM UTC

k0n2ad wrote: post #7

Maciek416 wrote: post #3

The linked blog post is just a summary of a longer and detailed Time magazine article found here: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1916286-1,0...

what's up with the date of that article?

interesting. Either a typo or it's meant to correspond to the print date? Perhaps it hasn't been printed yet.

Re: LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

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Post by physcab » Sun, Aug 16, 2009, 5:51 PM UTC

I want to honestly send this guy a $100. I can't count the number of times I've cried due to laughter from reading any one of these sites. The content is amazing.

Re: LOLcats founder is perplexed by company success

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Post by timdorr » Sun, Aug 16, 2009, 6:06 PM UTC

Irony at it's finest: Ben Huh is confused.