"If you haven’t noticed, cats are big on the Internet. Even though the occasional panda, turtle or slow loris gets a slice of the viral action, cats are, and always have been, the prevalent species to be found online." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Another hard-hitting exposé from Mashable. - Mark Trapp

From 2010. :) - Louis Gray

To give you an idea as to the Mashable community's expectations, after this hard-hitting expose, one of the first comments: "Long article is long". Sorry it's so rough to read! - Louis Gray

It's because they kind of have human facial expressions. - Gimminy

I'll go with ^^^. - Julian

Louis/Mark, I doubt the author intended it to be a "hard-hitting expose," but you'll notice that she did interview several individuals who make a living trafficking in internet memes. I rather enjoyed the post myself. - Jennifer Van Grove