Lol by: mamawalker

This week we’re happy to share our interview with wonderful Cheezburger user, mamawalker! Enjoy the interview and have a great weekend!

We’d love to hear the story behind your username!
It’s pretty simple, actually. My last name is Walker. And, since I was about 5 years old, I have been the Mother-of-all-living-things. At least according to my Mom. I was always bringing home the strays…puppies, kittens, wounded birds and such. But the actual name mamawalker started at a market research company where I supervised about 150 twenty-somethings. I guess I really listened to them more than their own families did and they just started calling me that. It stuck.

How long have you been a member of the Cheezburger community and what made you want to join?
A friend showed me the site in early 2010. I LMAO for a couple of weeks and making lols looked like so much fun that I HAD to join up! Plus I lived in a place where I could not have cats and Cheezland let me get my cat-fix, vicariously. I think I made my first lol in April, 2010.

What do you look for in a Cheez friend, and what’s the best way to make a new friend?
Well, first I look for someone who seems innately kind. I do like snide and sarcastic and poking fun but it has to be without being the intent to do harm. And I’m a pretty simple person. I think the best way to make a new friend is to show a willingness to listen and be understanding.
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LoL by: djcat595

This week we’re excited to learn more about Featured User djcat595—a creative and fun member of our community!

We’d love to hear the story behind your username!
I’m afraid that the story isn’t all that exciting. The username combines my first and middle initials with “cat”, because I love cats. When I attempted to register under the username “djcat” on another site, the name was already in use, and they offered me “djcat595.” So I recycled it for Cheezburger because it was easy to remember. After all, I’m getting older!

How long have you been a member of the Cheezburger community and what made you want to join?
I’ve been a lurker on and off for the last three or four years, but didn’t start becoming active until mid-2012. I’ve always enjoyed humour, especially in the way of satire, and Cheezburger has plenty of that. The cute animal pictures also roped me in with their elevated “Awww” factor.

What do you look for in a Cheez friend, and what’s the best way to make a new friend?
When I first joined, my main focus was on creating captions merely for the fun of it, in addition to exploring the respective Cheezburger sites. Eventually, as I posted more pictures, the friend requests came to me, and I have accepted all of them. As the old saying goes, “like attracts like.” And I find that requests come from people who share the same sense of humour and appreciation for animals and birds.

What is your favorite site on Cheezburger and why?
OK, I confess—it’s Lolcats. You get a combination of amazing cat photos and fantastic captions from people who obviously know the nature of felines. But I’m partial to all of the I Can Has sites, including Daily Squee, Animal Capshunz, etc. I even get a kick out of Fail Blog, and a number of the Memebase sites. When I was a kid, I grew up reading MAD magazine and various comic books, including Donald Duck. I find that Memebase and Fail Blog are very similar to MAD in their sense of social satire. As a child, I intuitively felt something very dark connected with Donald Duck, especially on Wonderful World of Disney when he would go into his rages and sound as if he was swearing. The Dolan comics may not be for everyone, but the people creating them have seen and captured that darkness to the extreme.
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LoL by: cataff (Picture by: Bren)

Happy Valentine’s Day!
As a special treat we have an interview with Cheezburger user cataff, a fun member of our community. The image above is of her friend Tazz, who is now at the Rainbow Bridge. She wanted to honor her memory by sharing this with all of us!

We’d love to hear the story behind your username!
I wanted “cat” in my user name, but the few ideas I had were already in use. I didn’t want to add a number to the end, so I began trying to come up with more ideas. The name “cataff” just popped into my head, and I went with it.

How long have you been a member of the Cheezburger community and what made you want to join?
I celebrated my first year anniversary as a member on January 28, but I had been lurking on the site and receiving the daily I Can Has Cheezburger e-mail for at least six months before I joined. I enjoyed the LOLs and felt I wanted to try creating some of my own, and I was impressed with the friendships I saw revealed in the messages. I stopped lurking and joined.

What do you look for in a Cheez friend, and what’s the best way to make a new friend?
I look for friends whose LOLs and messages reveal a person who cares about others and possesses a good sense of humor but doesn’t require the use of poor taste to create humor. I also read the person’s profile, although it’s not always as revealing as what he or she creates. The easiest way to make a new friend is to have a present friend say, “Hey, you should send a friend request to soandso–great person.”
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Our Cheezburger profiles are getting a makeover in the next week or so!
The new profiles will feature a new spruced up layout that is more compatible with the rest of our sites.
You’re going to see bigger images in places like the “Stuff” tab:

And under the “Friends” tab you’ll also find a new way to find friends—by their Cheezburger username or email:

We’ve also added some really creative and fun headers that you can choose for your profile, everything from “Bowie Cat”:

to “Me Gusta Your Profile”:

or “Greetings from Seattle”:

You’re going to have fun browsing through all of the different options—it’s hard to pick just one. We’re also continuing to work on these profiles, so expect more features in the future!

Hello Burgers!
We are happy to let you know that we’re going to be migrating our customer support to support.cheezburger.com.

After this transition you can still send us an email at contactus@cheezburger.com where our support system will automatically create a ticket on your behalf. You will also be notified of our responses and status changes to your tickets via email as well, and you can send out your replies directly.

The first time you send us a support query, you will receive an email with activation instructions to login to our support desk (registering is optional) at support.cheezburger.com. Going forward, you can check the status or add comments to your support queries here.

We are actively populating our support desk topics with solutions to your inquiries in real time, so you can help yourself to instructions and plenty of other information. This is much like an FAQ page. You can always contact us by creating a ticket or emailing us at contactus@cheezburger.com if you are unable to find what you need in the solutions articles.

Let us know in the comments if you have other questions, and thanks for being such a wonderful community!

Cheers,

Cheezburger

LoL by: Oreocat123

Happy Monday and welcome to another lovely week which includes many things…including Mardi Gras!

This week there is a lot of music coming out—Foals release their new album Holy Fire, Night Beds release Country Sleep and Virals release Strange Fruit. And if you’re still feeling the need for more music, watch some highlights from the Grammy’s last night, those are sure to entertain!

Movie-wise, there are a few fun ones coming out this week. On Valentine’s Day Safe Haven starring Josh Duhamel and Julianne Hough comes out, as does Escape From Planet Earth featuring Brendan Fraser, Jessica Alba and many others. On Friday you can get excited about The Power of Few—which we’re thrilled about considering it stars Christopher Walken and Christian Slater (anyone else’s childhood crush?).

Don’t forget to embrace your Fat Tuesday tomorrow and enjoy a grapefruit (we forgot to mention that February is National Grapefruit Month)—have a wonderful week!

We’re excited to feature safrida as our Cheezburger Featured User for this week! She took some time to answer our questions, and we’re happy to showcase such a fun and friendly person from our community!

We’d love to hear the story behind your username!
I used to do medieval reenactment. I was looking for a name for an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and found “Safrida”, a woman who was made an abbess after a generous donation from Daddy. Liked the name, and it stuck.

How long have you been a member of the Cheezburger community and what made you want to join?
I think it has been a year and a half. I was looking for visuals that would be useful in a classroom situation and was already aware of Fail Blog from when the students had free time on the computer. Then I found that I could make captioned photos and, well, insanity ensued.

What do you look for in a Cheez friend, and what’s the best way to make a new friend?
I look for a similar sense of humour and taste in work. Let’s face it. If your Dashboard is all Dolan comics and half-naked chicks, we’re not really going to have fun together. I have to be careful who I choose as a friend because of my job, too. The best way to make a new friend is by researching the person, and going with quality, not quantity. Blindly sending Friend Requests to everyone you come across isn’t the best way to go.

What is your favorite site on Cheezburger and why?
I am a geek, so I definitely love Set Phasers to Lol. I’m especially tickled when some of the more obscure shows get captioned!
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Hey Cheezburgers!
We wanted to let you know that we’ve decided to bring back pagination! This means that infinite scroll has been turned off and to view more pages you’ll need to click to the next page. We’ve also brought back the footer, so you’ll have a handy way to view all of Cheezburger’s many sites!
Here’s what the bottom of the page will look like:

Have a wonderful day!

We know, Valentine’s Day isn’t until next week—but we want to give you a chance to make this an extra special day…for your animals. Now is the time to get yourselves organized and Cheezburger is happy to help you! Here are some options we found.

A lovely heart-shaped perch or scratching post for your kitteh:

Via: boston.com

And since it is still chilly outside…don’t you think your pup could use a heart hoodie?

Via: poochieheaven.com

This one is for owners (very devoted ones)—turn a casting of your cat’s paw or nose into a silver necklace:

Via: dailygrommet.com

A delicious box of treats, specially created to appeal to your pooch:
Via: petsimple.com

And for those of you who are planning on going all out for your dog, Hotel Deluxe in Portland, Oregon has you covered. Your special pup will have their own special bed and snacks—even a heart-shaped dog tag and dog cupcakes. Good luck!

Welcome to the month of February, and to another week in Cheezburger land!
Now that football times have ended, it’s time to focus on other things this month. February is Black History Month, An Affair to Remember Month and Creative Romance Month (not surprising with Valentine’s Day sneaking up on us).

Saturday was also Groundhog Day, a time when our good friend Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania predicts our forecast future—and luckily he thinks it’s going to be an early Spring!

In addition, there are some fun movies coming out this Friday. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III—which stars Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman, Patricia Arquette and Bill Murray—tells the story of Charles (Sheen) as he tries to navigate love and loss in the wild of Los Angeles. Identity Thief starring Jason Bateman also comes out, as does Side Effects, a thriller starring Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum.

Let us know if you think of more exciting events/holidays, and have a wonderful week!