What is this?

sure

Note though, that I wouldn’t mind if CO didn’t have a LOLpix section …

Oh wait, I see we have a LOLPIX category already.

NO NO NO

Terrible idea. The LOLcat as a concept is completely played out. Cute Overload is unique and perfect just the way it is, and bringing in a tired old meme like LOLcats can do nothing but dilute the cute.

DON’T DO IT.

Please, no LOLcats. There are plenty of other places for them. Just stick to over-the-top cuteness!

There’s a ton of Sites for this kind of thing, there’s only one Site for unaltered pics of cute animals that I know of. Link to the LOLcats Pages, but refrain from making it a regular part of this Site, please.

Please not – lots off cats are not happy on those pictures, I`m not sure if stupid guys do bad things with kitties to make stupid photos …

Please noooo – cry – only cuties !

Avoid LOLcats please. I enjoy the occasional LOLcat but I enjoy your site every single day because it is so much better the way it is.

I visit C.O. and icanhascheezburger.com DAILY and there are rarely overlapping images. Its nice, keeping them separate.

Besides, there are SOOOO MANY LOLCATS that I think it would clog C.O. as opposed to paring down to ABSOLUTE CUTEST CUTENESS!!

C.O. and ICHC are 2 different flavors of icecream. Mix and you’ll lose the uniqueness of each.

Animals are best au natural, in my opinion. No clothes, no text–just them and, when possible, also a smaller version of them.

i also visit both CO and cheezburger daily, and while i love both, the only lol cats i’d want to see here are ones like this — good (cute!) images, actually funny not-inside-joke, good looking text, etc. one of the reasons i love CO is that it’s so well put together and polished! any lolcats that show up here should be the same, i think.

We already have “I Can Has Cheezburger”, I think cute overload should stick with traditional cute pics.

Only when it’s INCREDIBLY cute. Otherwise, stick to linking to them in captions.

I’d agree with the commenters who say “Stick with what you do so well”. I visit both here and ICHC – some people like the cute, some like the LULZ, and those of us who like both know where to look.

Please no. I visit both sites and enjoy them both and it would be a shame if CO lost it’s uniqueness adding in LOLCATS.

First time commenter chiming in to say “NO – please no Lolcats here at C.O.!!”

I love ICHC, but I go there for Lolcats, and I come here for the Cute. Please keep C.O. merely for the Cute!

I’ve had a quick look at the cheezeburger site and it’s pretty ordinary compared to CO. Not much cuteness and not very funny either. The other site is definately not one I would visit twice a day like a do with CO. (oh my, hope my family doesnt read this).
SO I vote NO, keep CO as it is, although I could do with less pugs with sqwishd noses..eew.

Yes! I totally support this. I love lolcats.

Count me as another huge fan of both CO and ICHC (both are among my home page tabs on Firefox) who thinks that LOLz are not really right for CO. Occasionally, maybe (remember I’m in ur macaronis, warming my feetz? Good times.) but let them stay separate. CO is for my awwww, ICHC is for my heeee. YMMV.

Please don’t. They’re sometimes funny, sometimes cute, but we don’t need further infection with this meme. I go to cuteoverload for cute pix, I *sometimes* go to lolcat-type sites for a shot of the absurd. I don’t think they should mix.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, what happened when Coke tried to be more like Pepsi? I am a daily visitor to both sites. I come here for cute and go there for funny. Don’t change your format! There is no need. Don’t compromise what makes your site unique!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, what happened when Coke tried to be more like Pepsi? I am a daily visitor to both sites. I come here for cute and go there for funny. Don’t change your format! There is no need. Don’t compromise what makes your site unique!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, what happened when Coke tried to be more like Pepsi? I am a daily visitor to both sites. I come here for cute and go there for funny. Don’t change your format! There is no need. Don’t compromise what makes your site unique!

I am going to join the chorus of NO THANK YOUs. The internet is saturated with macro sites, but there is only ONE CUTE OVERLOAD!!

Another CO and cheezburger fan here, and I agree with the votes to keep them separate. I like having the totally different vibe from both places; when I’m feeling the need for cute and cuddly I come here. When I need a little more edginess and hip intarwebs geekiness, I hit up cheezburger.

Lions don’t try to be cheetahs. Please don’t change a thing, Meg!

PLEASE, no…..

I also frequent both ICHC and CO daily. We don’t need LOLcats here because of the great text that accompanies the pictures when presented. I vote for leaving CO as is.

“sigh” I am a relatively new comer to CO and I have to say I like the LOL cats for a laugh They are posed and funny. But what is really fun about CO are the animals being themselves and the Meg Frost Wit. The icing on this cuteness cake is the commentary from the peeps. Some days when I am sad or tired or a really bad thing has happened in the world I come here to see the cutest animal pictures and read everyones comments. It can be very comforting. The other two sites are funny but not the same. I come here daily. So I guess I am voting please only an occasional LOL cat.
On the other hand I recognize that it is Megs’ site and Meg can do what she wants.

YES

i join the resounding chorus of no. (i wanted to make that plural, but i couldn’t figure out if it was noes, no’s, nos? they all looked so stupid. i think it’s noes, but it seems so dan quayle. ahem, anyway…) i have both sites in my bloglines feed and i enjoy them separately. i love the meg frost brand of humor, especially for the reason that it is unique. the lolcats stuff is a little more common, a little more broad. plus, the comments are atrocious, and are completely written in lolcat-speak. i would prefer to see teh qte remain unadulterated.

I’m for it only if it’s done CO style and normal CO pics that may have a laugh your arse off factor are used!! It has to be Meg-style, otherwise, fuhgetabawtit!

I must say… I like ICHC and I like CO. And I like that one is one and the other is the other. I don’t need them mooshed together; this isn’t a Reese’s commercial.

Mets — Birdchick FTW.

That is so funny. How’d he fit in there?

Don’t mean to be rude, but I have to vote NO. This seems like copycatting to me. There’s already an LOLcats website, which I look at sometimes (mostly when bored), but not nearly half as much as CO, which I definitely like better. CuteOverload is great the way it is!! Leave LOLcats to the LOLcats people at ICHC.

NO! Please no. If people want to see pictures of cats with silly writing all over them, there are tons of places to go on the internet to see them. People come to your site to see things that are just plain cute; things that are cute without having been altered by humans. Everything on here is cute of its own accord. Please, PLEASE, don’t make us cute purists have to sift through a bunch of LOLCats crap. I (and I’m sure many, many others) love your site as it is. Please don’t add something you can find on just about any other “cute” page.

Please don’t.

Yeah, no lolcats, please. That’s what Cheezburger’s for. Let them have their spotlight for the LOLnimals while CO continues to enjoy its own spotlight for the good, old-fashioned cute.

I vote no as well. I like sushi and I like ice cream, but I don’t think I’d like sushi ice cream. Besides, lolspeak might take over Meg’s wonderful captions and the readers’ hilarious commentary. Keep them separate!

ICHC has its niche, and C.O. has ours. I vote a resounding no. Let’s keep C.O. unique. We have the fabulous Meg Frost wit, and the cutest submissions and commenters in the known universe! Why would we want to be a carbon copy of somebody else? There’s room on the interwebs for bofe of us.

Make sure you check out icanhascheesebuger?.com to see the latest lolcat macros. Join the fun and caption cute, fun, interesting pix of stuff. See what they really look like.

“dilute the cute” hehe that made me laugh.

CO is great without LOLcats… and LOLcats is a different skinny yo.

thanks for seeking to be flexible, but while I frequent the icancheezburger site, I also vote NO to adding LOLcats to this site for several reasons:
1a. This site has its own brand of cute. There are many, many other LOLcat sites (icanhascheezburger, memecats, various LiveJournal sites), but only one CuteOverload. Why be a copycat?
1b. I see LOLcats everywhere else. I enjoy them, but it’s awfully nice to have a Cute Site without them!
2. The humor is different. Do not obscure the voice of Meg, plz k thx. I’ll take snorgles and soft kronches any day!
3. Most importantly: LOLcats are a bit of a fad, but Cute is Forever.

actually I wouldn’t change a single thing.
A little over a year ago I discoverd CUTE OVERLOAD and now I am addicted to it and check it out daily.
When I say this kitty in the pringels container I rememberd the time when my kitten was 3 months old did the same thing. I don’t know if it backed in or it went in head first and turned around but my wife went to pick up the container an out poped loveys head spooking her and I laughed so hard I bout split my guts.
Anyway keep up the good work and I wouldn’t change a single thing.

Please NO! I look at ICHC on occaision anyway, and while sometimes it’s funny, for the most part they’re just stupid and not cute at all. I want the CUTE to stay here and the inane to stay THERE.

I vote no as well. Besides, that picture isn’t cute. The poor kitty looks uncomfortable and sad.

NO.

Most are not cute, but this one is the exception

http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/funnycats/funny_cat_pictures_095.gif

I think it cheapens the whole atmosphere of cuteoverload…

Do it!! I visit CO more than I do icanhascheezburger and I love to laugh at animal pics!

Wow!

The People have spoken!!!

http://xkcd.com/c262.html

Thanks, everyone…

-Meg

Theo: What is an RCF?

NO, no, no, a thousand bazillion times no.

Like everybody said, CO is unique. Leave the LOLcats (and lolruses, etc) to ICHC.

I say stick with the one that won ya all your awards!

JNO: http://www.squidgrid.com/cute/Glossary.htm#RCF

JNO, You are right the catnip one is cute and funny and juuusssst a biiiiitt Scary!

Yes, orthodox! Meg-orthodox, or orthodox, but orthodox, meaning pure, unadulterated, good, solid Cute. Note that I didn’t capitalize the O, Theo. Meg’s othodox cuteness is not smarmy, cloying, Hallmarky, or sacchariny, all of which I would term alloyed, adulterated, un-orthodox cuteness. Yes?

I’m late to the game, but Nah. Cute’s enough for me.

I would say “no” to the whole “LOL” page idea. I find myself laughing at all the pics that I find especially cute. It would be pretty hard to classify the difference between cute and silly sometimes.

Now, now, ya’ll…don’t hate LOLcats…I wouldn’t mind a few being integrated in to Cute Overload when they’re cute, like say…obviously a kitten! Two great examples are the kitten in a kleenex box”when out of tissues, a kitten is fine” and the two hugging saying”don’t worry…everything’s fine now!” TOO CUTE! Heck, quite a few pics that originated here meandered their way to icanhascheezburger.com! I lurvs both sites equally…FOR THE LOVE OF GODS PEOPLE PLEEZ DON’T MAKE ME CHOOZ!!!! okay I feel better now!

Juniper J — no hatin’ the LOLcats here. (Well, not much, anyway) We mostly want CO to be CO and ICHC to be ICHC.

Nik — LOL indeed! win

Theo:

Or, in CO speak, I suppose it should be Teh-o:

Would I use your words against you? (It seems I already used them positively, affirmatively, to forge a consensus between us!

Anne Eliz Mary is my confirmation name, indicative of my love of the freedom one has within orthodoxy . . . . such as Meg and Theo-speak.

Squeeee! (My standard poodle, Lizzy, heard that.)

Sorry for the time gap–phone calls, paper sorting, Sunday evening enjoyments.

Best regards, AEM

Theo–

If you’re following this thread, your next question will be as to whether I named my dog after my self–my middle name Elizabeth. The answer is, of course not! My dog is named for Elizabeth Bennett!

I’m an lolcat addict but I agree that there’s a place on the interwebs for cute photos, and a different place for lolcats.

I’d be OK with an occasional lolcat/animal but only if it’s exceptionally cute and squee-inducing. AND not based on a photo that’s already in here. Which is time consuming to check.

Meg already answered with a “we got it,” and I think she means the answer is no. It’s too played out and not CO at all, but more humor-based.

Anyway, here’s one more cute one

http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/funnycats/gfx_191.jpg

Occula, I’m curious… Which is “church” and which is “state?”

YES, we need an LOL category, because I LOL at something every time I visit this site! It’s vegetable soup (no chickens were harmed!) for the soul!

No, definitely not. I think they’re funny sometimes, but one of the best things about C.O. is the captions! This site does such a good job with that anyway that I think trying to mix the two would just be silly. If anybody wants that, they can go to ICHC, hehe.

I think it is freakin hilarious how opinionated everyone is about this- This is a website, right? That you check so you can has a chuckle? I was not aware it was a religion, or an ideology, or a political movement of some sort? Has I joined a cult or somethin and no one told me? All I gotta say: All hail to queen Meggg. I flail some ceremonial hampsters in your general direction, and say to you, do what ever the heck you like, and don’t listen to us idiots. Never conduct a poll, for pete’s sake. We like what you post, if we don’t we will go away, and you will know. I think the comments prove you have ultimate power over the interwebs. *Lights special CO incense and backs out the door on her knees*

I agree pkeli, I just think it is funny how worried everyone is, like oh noes, the gods are angry, it is a sad day when passing ruffians can shout Ni at old ladies, no shrubs! no LOLCATS Gahh!

Don’t do it!

Your comments are much sweeter and funnier and more interesting to read.

Please, for the love of all things anerable, no lolpix here. Please please please no!

Please no- lolpix are obnoxious!

Why not try it and see how it goes? You can always monitor the clicks per page and see if the peeps are really viewing them or not…

I agree with what a lot of other people have said – cat macros (LOLCATS) are fun, but they’re all over the place already. I like CO for the pure, unadulterated cute it brings me.

I’d have to agree with most of these people. While I’m amused by icanhascheezburger.com, I’d rather CO stay separate.

I see you already have the link set up, though, so I just hope this new addition will not impede the cuteness of the website otherwise (captionless kittens must be posted just as frequently!). Also, while I trust your judgment, I can still ask that you make sure the pictures actually are cute and funny.

No.

There are many places that are for LOL Cats, Why duplicate when you have your own speciallity.

Maybe links instead? Talk to the ICHC people and have receiprical Links?

NO. Keep to what you do best and let the lolcats thrive elsewhere. PLEEEEEEASE. They are very, very funny and it’s a different funny.

O, and for the record…if you let them, both sites will worm their way into your vernacular. This is a testament to the power of the Inter-webs. I not only type Meglish in all my emails, including work-related ones, I now speak Cheezburger (example: husband, ‘what do you want for dinner tonight?’ me, ‘i can has cheezburger?’)

No, don’t change. I read both religiously, and I think they’ve got their thing there and you’ve got yours. Might be nice to link to their page in your “more! more! more!” list, and maybe shout them out occasionally when they post an exceptionally cute lolcat, but other than that, nah.

a lot of the lolcats/roflcats encourage people to be inhumane toward their cats just to get a redic photo to post all over the internet. (ex: putting your cat in a cake dish with the lid on it… or putting slices of cheese over your cats face… there’s no way the cat is pleased with these things…)
even though the cats are probably only in these situations for long enough to take a quick photo, the thought is still disheartening.

Somebody needs a reality check (sing-song voice).

A slice of cheese is inhumane? WTF? It’s a f***ing slice of cheese. Hell, my cat would probably be quite pleased by this – she loves cheese!

1) The cat in shower pic is ’shopped, it,s a well known example of ’shoppin.

2) Dumb people don’t need lolpics to inspire them to do stupid things.

LOL! Sooo cute! In a pringles box! “No thanks, I’m stuffed” that adds a lot to the funnyness/cuteness of this picture! I loooooove it