As a cat owner, I think LOLCats are hilarious.

whyerhead, Cincinnati, OH, USA

The Times sounds like my Dad in this article, roflmao!

Phill Barlow, The Wirral, England

Small things occupy small minds.

mike, canada,

The evolution of LOLcat speak can be traced back to Counter-Strike. LOLcat's did in no way make it up, and 4chan was the original forum that they were posted on.

Nick, Anchorage, AK, USA

Jake -- Of your post's many cringe-worthy aspects, perhaps the most offensive is that you define American humor by LOLcats. Do us all a favor and close up the laptop!

Sid, Seattle, USA

I thought LOLcats were silly but fun, until I saw that people are trying to translate the entire bible into LOLcatspeak (I'm an atheist and don't have anything against the religious issues, but come on! This is the death of imagination!) People's brains really are shrinking.

So go and shrink your brain then: www.amusingyou.com

Guy, Grahamstown, South Africa

"Look, you English don't understand American humor..."

Suddenly I find LOLcats very funny indeed.

George, Edinburgh,

Because cats have a smaller brain, and English is their second language.

Picolo, Toronto, Ontario

Look, you English don't understand American humor because it forces you to find the funny with previous information. You have to be up to date on quite a few internet cliche's to appreciate LOLcats for what it's worth. They are absolutely genius. If you don't find them humorous it's probably because no one is getting bopped on the head or running in circles. Stay off of our web pages you humorless dolts. -Unless of course you want to start LOLbrits, which I'd be all for.

Jake, Indianapolis, USA

"hundreds of geeks are hunched over laptops wasting their valuable young brain cells making LOLcats."

I'm old and I hunch over my desktop keyboard, Thank you very much.

Cats are cute and expressive, laughing at the sayings is just one of the many ways to unwind after a hard day, get of your high horse and find humor again.

Gen, Lubbock, TX, USA

I think the lolcats are cute, and I still get a good laugh every now and again reading them. I'm happy to see them stay.

Plus there are worse things out on the Internet - when we are swamped with racism, inflammatory religious remarks, endless ad hominem attacks, spam, difficult to navigate sites, bad spelling, porn (okay, that's not necessarily a bad thing), anecdotal evidence proving virtually everything.

Take away the cute cat pictures and then where would we be?

Jamie, Edinburgh, Scotland

for the lulz

Boris Landreau, Melbourne,

Obviously EVERYTHING originates from 4chan, because 4chan is the center of the internetverse.
/sarcasm

Silly Axolotl, Minneapolis, Minnesota

All those lolcats pictures came from 4chan and 7chan. And that's why they got DDOS'd.

Kyle Robair, New Britain, CT, USA

It came from 4-Chan, no?

Raine, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada

It's a bit of fun. We get to poke fun at the language of internet newcomers and laugh at funny pictures of cats. Winning situation.

Jon Brady, Glasgow,

Well, why not?

As a frequenter of one or two message boards, I'd like to point out that the misspelling is used to parody idiotic internet users or to highlight the cuteness of the pictures, usually on kitten pictures, as a sort of imitation of juvenile speech, eg. "Is it can be hugz tiem now plz?"

Adam Smith, Darlington,

But why?

Stephen Webster, Manchester, England