Caturday

English Etymology en cat Saturday. Pronunciation en /ˈkætədeɪ/ /ˈkætədi/ UK kăʹtər-dā US, en /ˈkætɚdeɪ/, kăʹtər-dē, en /ˈkætɚdi/ Noun en Internet slang en Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats or other pictures of cats. en July 16 2007 Lev Grossman http://techland.time.com/2007/07/16/lolcats_addendum_where_i_got_t/ Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong Time magazine TIME I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme. https://web.archive.org/web/20160308031124/https://techland.time.com/2007/07/16/lolcats_addendum_where_i_got_t/ en August 31 2010 Jon Kelly; Jude Sheerin http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10520487 The strange virtual world of 4chan w:BBC News Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" and so on) - made their first appearance on the site, during its regular "Caturday" slot, but went on to dominate blogs and sites the length and breadth of the internet. https://web.archive.org/web/20160322174944/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-10520487 en 2012 Katherine Losse The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network Free Press 9781451668254 http://books.google.com/books?id=s72NsJ91rCoC&pg=PA148 148 When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday. en Translations Saturday for cats Dutch: nl katerdag Russian: ru Субко́та f cat Saturday See also uk котопонеді́лок, equivalent in Ukraine en 4chan slang en Cats Days of the week Internet memes