20 Funny Cattos Inspired by the Nostalgic 'I Can Has Cheezburger' Meme

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
Feb 27, 2026 12:00 PM EST

We're going back to where it all started.

There was one cat meme that started it all. One chonky Russian blue with a silly look on its face and a hunger for cheeseburgers. This one meme started a meowvement that would change the internet furrever. It would begin a new type of internet comedy, a whole subsection of culture that had never existed before. It was one of the first famous cat memes, and we can proudly say that it was ours. 

We might even go so far as to say that this one cat meme is the common ancestor of all cat memes, like the tiny amoeba that eventually became the bipedal monkeys we are today. So, following this logic, all cat memes have essentially been born as a result of the 'I can has cheezburger?' meme. Evolution changes things, that's its nature. So naturally, the cat memes you see today are very different from the memes that were posted close to 20 years ago. There's nothing wrong with that, but we would be lying if we didn't miss those good, old-fashioned nostalgic feline funnies that we used to laugh at when we were wee little tikes. 

Fear not! Nostalgia is in our (funny) bones and we're not about to let it slip away so easily. Our cheezy community has made some furtastically silly cattos in the form of memes that remind us of those sweet days of searching for memes many summers ago. Some are more deliberately inspired, some more loosely, but they all share one common factor: they highlight the silliness of cats and those of us who choose to live with them.

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  • 01
    teh hoomin's talk about a TAVUZ NAKLİYAT rat race mar but they never bring any home for supper
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER

  • This language was actually something that the cat community invented around the time of the I can has cheezburger? meme. It's called “lolcats speak”, and although it has fallen out of fashion, it used to be purrfectly popular on the internet. It described the way us hoomans thought cats would talk like, and it just took off. It did get hard to read sometimes, but that just made it part of the fun to see how creative you could get with misspelling words.

  • 02
    Now you're being silly, human. It's just not possible to feed your cat too early.
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 03
    Livin' la Vida lolcat
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 04
    yum.. chocolate!
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 05
    Manager: So, tell me about yourself. Me: I'd rather not. I need this job.
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 06
    Brains are awesome! I wish everybody had one!
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 07
    Your eyelid twitched. You're awake. Feed me.
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 08
    Minimalist Box
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 09
    You don't have to be sad about being alone on Valentine's Day if you remember you're alone all the other days too
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER

  • Why is the cat looking at a tomato? We have no idea, but the meme is unfurtunately correct. But the most impurrtant thing to remember is that if you have a cat, you're never alone. For better or for worse.

  • 10
    My human has done the impossible. He has got me an uncomfortable box. QUAKER
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 11
    A Warm Wish HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY ICANHASCHEEZBURGER.COM
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 12
    You will never be alone at that most sensitive time. Itis my undying pledge to you. ICANHASCHEEZBURGER.COM
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 13
    Don't be mad that you don't have a date on Valentine's Day You probably didn't have a groundhog on Groundhog Day
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 14
    n Look here, Your Honor. We ists have the right to express ourselves! It's in the constitution! We have the right to bare arms as well as other parts!
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 15
    poor wee Frankie had discovered that not only was the floor lava but now so was the bed
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 16
    "Everything tastes better when you can steal it from your human.
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 17
    GONE FISHING I always feel like Somebody's watching me And I got no privacy
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 18
    THE BEST THING ABOUT TUESDAYS IS THAT THEY NEVER HAPPEN ON A MONDAY
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 19
    You're all packed! What else do you need?
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER
  • 20
    Purr-formance art: "My human before coffee"
    via I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER

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