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Lolcat Owner: I Haz No Happy With Grammer
A reporter’s account of a harrowing tale. This feature article is exclusive to The Technology Herald.
Judy Waggledagger was shocked and distraught after finding a doctored photo of her cat on a Flickr account she was browsing on ‘her Internet’ she explained to The Technology Herald. We were sitting in a trendy café in Manchester Airport, Britain, and Judy was scrunching up her napkin in anger whilst giving her account of the story.
Two months earlier English teacher Judy was happily uploading her weekly batch of cat photos to her Flickr account. She glowed in pride with her efforts as she had only been using the Internet for a month or so. And now she was contributing to it. She had learnt from a colleague that she had progressed onto Web 2.0 - the next generation of Internet users and applications. Nothing could stop her becoming a digital native now.
Or so she thought. When browsing a random Flickr user’s photos, she discovered that one of her precious cat photos (the cat was standing upright on its hind legs) had been copied and the phrase “I can haz human legz” was now plastered across her photo. She released a yell, in rage.
But it wasn’t the fact that it had been copied and vandalised that annoyed her. She could deal with that.
“The thing that irritated me was the bad grammar used on my photo. Should one of my colleagues see this image then I could be out of a job. Me, a grammar teacher and the photo of my cat. They could put two and two together, recognise my cat and assume it was myself that used this kind of language. I’m deeply annoyed.
I will try to think about possible consequences of my actions on my Internet in the future.”
We finished our Macchiatos and Judy looked happier. She cursed over the fact that this incident had taken up so much of her time. This interview had got it off her chest. No longer would she try to pursue this anonymous photo vandaliser. Judy has learnt a valuable lesson that many Web2.0 users may need to learn. Contributing to the web may be contributing to your own downfall.
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