Caturdayとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkætədeɪ/, /ˈkætədi/
• (米国発音) enPR: kăʹtər-dā, IPA^(key): /ˈkætɚdeɪ/, enPR: kăʹtər-dē, IPA^(key): /ˈkætɚdi/

名詞

Caturday (複数形 Caturdays)

1. (Internet slang) Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats or other pictures of cats.
   • 2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, Time‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2010 August 31, Jon Kelly; Jude Sheerin, “The strange virtual world of 4chan”, in BBC News‎^[2]:

     Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" かつ 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.

   • 2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, Free Press, →ISBN, page 148:

     When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday.