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Seattle Cheezburger Cats Continue World Domination

blogs.seattleweekly.com — Huh bought the LOLcat site for $2 million last year from Hawaiians Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami.

Who dugg this? Made popular May 31, 2009

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  • primatage, on 05/30/2009, -3/+31i think you mean no MOAR cats.
  • hookedupphat, on 05/31/2009, -4/+27why would a cat even ask for a cheeseburger?
  • omenmedia, on 05/31/2009, -4/+19...

    A site with a collection of LOLcats sold for TWO MILLION DOLLARS?

    I really need to come up with some lame meme.

    1. Create meme.
    2. Make website.
    3. ????
    4. PROFIT
  • fringetime, on 05/30/2009, -6/+19The cats are going corporate.
  • richlw, on 05/31/2009, -0/+13but it comes with your choice of topping!
  • dmanmax99, on 05/31/2009, -2/+14Wait, bought that website for 2 million dollars? Holy *****, I need to cash in on the next meme.
  • Landeyda, on 05/31/2009, -3/+14Stealing and renaming memes from 4chan seems to be a profitable business.
  • ThaDRD, on 05/31/2009, -1/+10Yo dawg, I heard you liked memes....
  • scentaroom, on 05/30/2009, -13/+22no more cats...
  • webconnoisseur, on 05/30/2009, -3/+10Trying to figure out who I'm more impressed by, Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami for creating the site, or Ben Huh for buying it and squeezing money out of it.
  • itsthemechanic, on 05/31/2009, -0/+6Both Failblog and icanhascheezburger are already so stale they reek... Good on the guys that sold the sites but I doubt the buyers will make their money back.
  • jrm125, on 05/30/2009, -7/+12I can haz websitez?
  • masonga95, on 05/31/2009, -1/+6Owning 4chan is a curse.
  • havocjaw, on 05/31/2009, -1/+5You just used a meme to comment on another meme..

    1. Read absurd digg article
    2. Use meme to comment.
    3. ?????? (use the bathroom)
    4. Come back and somebody has commented on your comment.
  • inactive, on 05/31/2009, -1/+5This is the new slap bracelet.
  • inactive, on 05/31/2009, -0/+3Can I just have the doll
  • inactive, on 05/31/2009, -2/+5Huh?
  • Frostek, on 05/31/2009, -0/+3The topping contains Potassium Benzoate
  • Arjin, on 05/31/2009, -1/+4No, see, the fault in your plan is actually trying.

    Don't bother coming up with a meme, just rip one off SA/4chan, and hope you get lucky.
  • skipvt, on 05/31/2009, -1/+3I guess you gotta like cats...
  • bot001220, on 06/01/2009, -0/+2Who would want 4chan? The owner has to deal with death threats and constant phone calls from the FBI.
  • illuminat, on 05/31/2009, -4/+6Poor Moot, nobody has offered anything for 4chan yet.
  • spooksmcgee, on 05/31/2009, -3/+5That stupid meme should have died two weeks after it started.
  • ha3er0, on 06/16/2009, -4/+6A bit old news from April 19. but interesting nonetheless. Even though they are profiting from user-generated content (like digg), their website looks like ***** and they should be thankful to 4chan for FAIL and LOLCAT meme.
  • roomforpanic, on 05/31/2009, -1/+3All your meme are belong to us.
  • Atario, on 06/01/2009, -0/+2Because cheeseburgers are delicious. Delicious and forbidden to kitties.
  • non00b, on 05/31/2009, -1/+3how long will it be before the guy who owns pedobear.org gets a deal?
  • snuf42, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2They didn't just sell him the domain. They build the site up over the course of 2007 including developing the software to allow people to upload and create their own captioned images. They did lots of promotion and built up the sites following. The site was already making money before it was sold. Huh didn't buy just a "domain" he bought a community of users.
  • peligro666, on 05/31/2009, -2/+4So lemmie get this straight: this guy Huh makes money from other peoples' photos, and they get nothing in return?
  • arsenic0, on 06/10/2009, -0/+2Except at 5+ million views a day across all of his sites he is pulling in tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in ad revenue..
    Add a half million dollar book..

    Now whose the stupid one? He can easily turn 2 million into 5 before the lolcats train derails...
  • SuperMoses, on 05/31/2009, -1/+2obvious meme is obvious
  • inactive, on 05/31/2009, -7/+8Because they would.
  • inactive, on 05/31/2009, -1/+2no when the book comes out they get that one of a kind satisfaction that only a crazy cat person can get from seeing their cat in print captioned with something silly. to those people that experience is priceless because it validates their cat neurocies - specifically the one where they think that their cat is the cutest EVAR!!!
  • huntermcwhite, on 05/31/2009, -1/+2anyone who pays money for anything related to lolcats is a ***** moron.
  • sashas, on 05/31/2009, -3/+3In the beginning, I dismissed it as a fad (you know, like the Numa Numa guy or the Dancing Hamster). But then, it stuck around.

    These cats are definitely going to stick around. Its a shame that the iCanHasHotDog blog failed to get off though..
  • samard2002, on 05/31/2009, -1/+1Sounds like the real winners were "Hawaiians Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami" who sold this guy a domain for $2 million.
  • sweet0nessness, on 06/01/2009, -0/+0I've seen worse things to spend your money on. Ever seen those poo and pee plush toys? I would rather pay for a plushie of HappyCat than a plushie of something that would come out of HappyCat's butt any day.
  • NoamChimpsky, on 05/31/2009, -1/+1I CAN HAZ ROYULTEE CHEK NOAW?

    K THX.
  • inactive, on 05/31/2009, -1/+1So these ***** stole 4chan's idea and are now profiting big time from it? Jesus, I'm on the lookout for the next cute thing to come out.
  • flangepiece, on 05/31/2009, -1/+1............................................________
    ....................................,.-‘”...................``~.,
    .............................,.-”............

    Sorry, I got bored typing it all out again.
  • sweet0nessness, on 06/01/2009, -1/+0My memes, let me show you them!
  • im12andwutisdis, on 06/16/2009, -1/+0buried 4 inaccuracy
  • sweet0nessness, on 06/01/2009, -1/+0Some people will never have fame. They will never have fortune. Some may never have children.
    But starting a meme...that will be their legacy.
  • im12andwutisdis, on 06/16/2009, -2/+0stolen from xkcd
  • pl0v3, on 05/31/2009, -2/+0"Get used to getting used" Kanye West.

    (in b4 bury brigade..)
  • Iexist08, on 05/30/2009, -9/+6why not?
  • thePTS, on 05/31/2009, -8/+4www.candleja
  • chokitofrito, on 05/30/2009, -10/+3It's either raining or not raining.
  • BirdCatcher, on 05/31/2009, -8/+1KKK? Krazy Kat Kaptions? ... lol, must have been a bad judgment call.
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