I long for the days of VS where this would have been top. Nice sift. Back to LOLCats everyone!

OK, i get it. Not everyone likes to watch videos of kittehs barking and puppies meowing. Then again, not everyone wants to watch "intellectually stimulating" videos and discuss it's merits.

As irritating as lolcats can be....the condescending tone of this post makes me .

Feeling better now and thank you for clearing up the motivation.
Please don't take a personal disdain for giddy while mindless, so-called news reporting to heart.

"Gay" and "marriage" are hard terms to coalesce for most into substance considering the sociological and traditional connotations. Not my point. my point would resemble a world where people get real news from the organizations with the funds and apparatus to catalyze tangible "change". Not spare change or chump change or square change or anything that brings society to some illusory statuesque quo.

Get this out of your system perhaps by embedding videos from lolcats.com??

Thank you for the promote invocation.
In reply to this comment by legacy0100:
*promote

This is why I keep two Facebook accounts. One that I use to post lolcats pics and play Farmville and my hidden account is used to manage my white supremisist fan page.

I've been around here for almost as long as the sift has, and I've developed my own intuition for what's going to be successful and what's not. This one was a surprise to me. Sifters are generally more discerning. I'm not understanding the appeal to Sifters in particular.>> ^MilkmanDan:

>> ^messenger:
How the hell did this make it to #1, let alone the top 15? It's just a guy answering somebody else's phone, and not doing much creative with it. Opportunity missed.

Yeah, well, there are multiple websites that get massive amounts of traffic dedicated to lolcats. Photographs of cats with "witty" (term used extremely loosely) captions superimposed over them that intentionally use atrocious grammar and spelling. That, I don't get.
This, I upvoted. To each his own.

>> ^messenger:

How the hell did this make it to #1, let alone the top 15? It's just a guy answering somebody else's phone, and not doing much creative with it. Opportunity missed.


Yeah, well, there are multiple websites that get massive amounts of traffic dedicated to lolcats. Photographs of cats with "witty" (term used extremely loosely) captions superimposed over them that intentionally use atrocious grammar and spelling. That, I don't get.

This, I upvoted. To each his own.

I agree with both @heropsycho and @Psychologic .

People comfortable with online sharing often refuse to acknowledge the cost of content creation. Since the cost of distribution is now seemingly free, there will always be an incentive to profit off of the costless distribution without being burdened by the cost of content creation. It's always cheaper to copy and sell than it is to create and sell. Therefore attempting to make money off some bits you strung together is a tough road. Someone can always sell those same bits and undercut your costs (barring any costs of overcoming technological or legal barriers to copying like they've been creating). In the long run, the continued status quo will almost certainly decrease the signal to noise ratio of content. Indeed, it already has. Fewer and fewer choose to make costly-to-produce content, and more and more are making lolcats and fart apps.

At the same time the industry refuses to acknowledge that the creation of many forms of content is forever democratized. The cost of recording what I'd consider a high quality album, for example, can now be borne by a dude in his mom's basement. He could even include some distribution and marketing. What service does the record industry really provide at that point? Editorial input? Yup... that's about it. In other words, the old media record industry could at this point be replaced by a handful of trustworthy blogs, and I don't know, something like Rhapsody? I subscribe because it's easier than pirating and managing a music library, I get nearly unlimited music, and I get to feel like I'm supporting artists. If I really like a band I find, I might even go to their show or buy their merchandise. I care about supporting the artists. Not dead tree media companies that were out innovated. If they had any sense they'd focus on their core business which is a reputation for suggesting high quality content. Further, they should focus on building that reputation with listeners, not retailers (something they abandoned long ago). They don't even need to worry about the rights to the content. Without an audience they have no product. They might as well close up shop.

Where I will agree, however, is in the realms where the cost of creating the content is substantially higher, for example big-budget film or video games. Still, I'd argue these industries aren't suffering to the same extent because as has been pointed out people still go to the movies, or game online. That is, they've still created a tiered distribution model that makes it an easier or a substantially better experience to pony up a few bucks to check it out. Even after a run in the theaters you can get napster or hit your local video store (not that anyone does that anymore, again, because they were out innovated).

Your video, The Day The LOLcats Died, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Cheers for the promote during these difficult and dark times.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
*promote

I just did

In reply to this comment by Hybrid:
I've sifted that, feel free to upvote it ;

http://videosift.com/video/The-Day-The-LOLcats-Died>> ^Sagemind:

The Day The LOLcats Died
http://youtu.be/1p-TV4jaCMk

Your pimping skills are fantastic!

In reply to this comment by Hybrid:
I've sifted that, feel free to upvote it ;

http://videosift.com/video/The-Day-The-LOLcats-Died>> ^Sagemind:

The Day The LOLcats Died
http://youtu.be/1p-TV4jaCMk

I've sifted that, feel free to upvote it

http://videosift.com/video/The-Day-The-LOLcats-Died>> ^Sagemind:

The Day The LOLcats Died
http://youtu.be/1p-TV4jaCMk

The Day The LOLcats Died
http://youtu.be/1p-TV4jaCMk

Fixed that for ya. ;-)>> ^Zifnab:

Very impressive sad.
>> ^mizila:
Okay, you asked for it...
1. Lolcats (Title/whole video)
2. etc...