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Video Definitely Not Despacito. Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next. We see that you're using an ad-blocker! You must login or signup first! Already a memeber? In the early days of the site, its traffic was negligible, but it very quickly outgrew its available bandwidth and was regularly getting Nakagawa and Unebasami in trouble with their hosting service.
Huh said that one day in April , I Can Has Cheezburger--which he hadn't heard of--linked to a page of his and the resulting flood of traffic took his site down. Nakagawa apologized and promised to take down the link, but a relationship was born. Not long afterward, in July , Huh said he offered to buy I Can Has Cheezburger and take the site off their hands, along with the headaches it was clearly causing the founders as it grew and gave them seemingly unsolvable server issues.
By now, traffic was in the tens of millions of page views per months, but not long after the purchase, it seemed to stall. He admitted that in the early days of his ownership of the site, "we had absolutely no clue what the hell we were doing," but as they moved forward, they decided that rather than try to make big changes to try to improve traffic, it would be better to leave the site's huge community alone.
After all, it was the community that was making the site what it was. As Huh put it, "Don't friggin' touch a thing.
There's a community here. Without submissions of users' LOLCats , there's no content. And without content, there's no traffic. And the decision turned out to be a good thing. Traffic had flat-lined, but by leaving the community alone, and encouraging the site's users to continue to make their submissions--many using the site's LOLCat creation tool--traffic once again began to grow. Then, Huh said, "The same investors who were like, 'We're going to call our lawyer' were like, 'Wow, great investment.
By now, Huh explained, it was the end of December , and as it became , Huh and his team decided it was time to make some changes to the community side of the site. In March , however, that number had risen to 5, per day. That, of course, was a bit of a logistical nightmare. So in March, the site hired full-time moderators to do nothing but review LOLCat submissions and choose which ones become the six or eight that are put on the site each day.
Until this weekend, Unebasami had always elected to remain anonymous, preferring to operate under the pseudonym Tofuburger. But I'm officially 'out' now, and ready to embrace everything. Yunebasami: "Tron Guy! I can't believe I didn't bring a gem sweater to wear!
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