I Can Has Cheezburger?

Happy Cat, the grinning gray cat of "I can has cheezburger?" A chubby gray British Shorthair with a hopeful grin, captioned in broken English, gave the world both the lolcat format and the site I Can Has Cheezburger in 2007. That misspelled cat-speak became the house style of cat captions for years and turned meme-making into a daily habit for huge numbers of people. Nobody can say for sure who the cat was. Reports conflict: one popular account names a British Shorthair called Frank, and the photo is said to have circulated on the Something Awful forums around 2003. That mystery is part of the story, since the image spread far faster than its origin did.