I Can Has Cheezburger

The website is one of the most popular lolcat sites on the internet, receiving as many as 1,500,000 hits per day. ICHC was instrumental in bringing animal based image macros and lolspeak into mainstream usage.
According to TIME Magazine, the website was acquired by a group of investors in September 2007 for US $2 million. ICHC was created on January 11, 2007, when Nakagawa posted an image from Something Awful of a smiling grey cat with a caption of the cat asking, "I can has cheezburger?" in a style popularized by 4chan.After posting similar images, Nakagawa then converted the site to a blog.


Content
ICHC's content is submitted by the site's readers, and hosts "the cheezburger factory", a lolcat builder that allows users to create their own lolcats. The number of submissions has risen dramatically with the growth of the site.In July 2007, ICHC received as many as 500 submissions per day. By January 2008, the average was over 9000. Only about a dozen or so submissions per day are posted to the website, while updates are timed to coincide with when readers are most likely to be visiting the site - morning, lunch time and evenings. As of early 2008, ICHC gets about 2 million page views per day.
The site attempts to maintain a community feel, encouraging interactivity with readers via a voting system where users can rate an image from one to five "cheezburgers", and through running themes as one image will spawn responses into a running narrative. This use of the font stems from it being the default font on the site's Lolcat Builder, but many people creating lolcats in other software have used the same font to make it more traditional to the content of I Can Has Cheezburger.