Shortly after the site launched, the two became inundated with submissions, and could barely maintain the work flow. That's where Ben Huh came in: "I just couldn't let that happen," he said.
Huh, who met Nakagawa and Unebasami last May after they linked to a story he wrote about the pet food recall, bought the site for an undisclosed sum about four months later. Unebasami and Nakagawa are working on other projects related to the site and the LOLcat phenomenon, including tweaking the upcoming LOLcat book, due out this holiday season.
But it was hard to find good collections of them other than sites where dozens of them were roughly patched together and added to as more funny ones turned up. For whatever reason, it struck a chord, and immediately, the two registered icanhascheezburger. And while it wasn't a problem at the time, as they engineered the site to allow users to submit their own LOLCats and as the site has subsequently grown and grown, and become synonymous with the LOLCat meme, other have attempted to piggyback on its popularity by registering similar URLs.
Because there's a million ways to spell "I Can Has Cheezburger" and we don't own any of them. In the early days of the site, its traffic was negligible, but it very quickly outgrew its available bandwidth and was regularly getting Nakagawa and Unebasami in trouble with their hosting service. Huh said that one day in April , I Can Has Cheezburger--which he hadn't heard of--linked to a page of his and the resulting flood of traffic took his site down.
Nakagawa apologized and promised to take down the link, but a relationship was born. Not long afterward, in July , Huh said he offered to buy I Can Has Cheezburger and take the site off their hands, along with the headaches it was clearly causing the founders as it grew and gave them seemingly unsolvable server issues. By now, traffic was in the tens of millions of page views per months, but not long after the purchase, it seemed to stall.
He admitted that in the early days of his ownership of the site, "we had absolutely no clue what the hell we were doing," but as they moved forward, they decided that rather than try to make big changes to try to improve traffic, it would be better to leave the site's huge community alone. After all, it was the community that was making the site what it was.
As Huh put it, "Don't friggin' touch a thing. There's a community here. Without submissions of users' LOLCats , there's no content. And without content, there's no traffic. And the decision turned out to be a good thing. Traffic had flat-lined, but by leaving the community alone, and encouraging the site's users to continue to make their submissions--many using the site's LOLCat creation tool--traffic once again began to grow.
Then, Huh said, "The same investors who were like, 'We're going to call our lawyer' were like, 'Wow, great investment. No submissions have been entered as well; this might be because the majority of the videos come from Youtube, and Youtube had launched the feature of captioning a user's video as of late Other sites have an active community such as the "My Little Brony" page.
Know Your Meme has become famous as a place where people can go to learn about the origins of some of the Internet's most jokes. And that's precisely why Cheezburger bought it. And Know Your Meme was probably doing the best job of that out there. As of March , Cheezburger currently has 1. Quantcast shows the Cheezburger Network reviving an aggregated pageview count of approximately View All Images. Show Comments. The sale is not as much of the whimsical move of a kooky billionaire as it first appears, however.
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Read Edit History. Origins: I Can Has Cheezburger? Seven of these are linked to each other via a navigation bar at the top of each site; These are: I Can Has , the original Cheezburger site that features lolcats and other animals.
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