Lessons Learned from the World of LOLCats, FAILS and Other Blunders

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How does one build an empire on pictures of cats with silly, misspelled captions? As most fans of the internet know, the Cheezburger Network, which consists of over 30 popular humor sites such as I Can Has Cheesburger, FAIL blog, There I Fixed It, ad Emails from Crazy People has become an internet phenomenon. Its daily collection of LOLcats, FAILS and other blunders are the source of endless humor, and you can be pretty sure that someone in the office is on one of those sites right now. How did this all happen, and why do over 13 million people come to our sites every day?



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