Cats may well be the original muse for meme culture as know it today. Sure, we were primed for the phenomenon of viral humor with things like the Dancing Baby or All Your Base Are Belong To Us, but it was creating LOLspeak and whacking impact font over cute kitty images that really opened the floodgates for this stuff to become mainstream.

It’s no surprise that they were such a great gateway into the world of funny internet pictures. There are many overly online cat people out there, and they haven’t stopped making memes since the day they realized they had struck gold. Cat memes are the gift that keeps on giving, as evidenced by the fact that we are able to bring you all of these examples week after week.