Moms like kitteh videos, and take lolspeak way too far.

Iz eezee tu cree-ate kwye-at wit teenagers. Jus’ menshun yu knead sumpfin done. Voila! Noe teenagers.

via icanhascheezburger.com

So there's this kitty video where a vet 'suspends' a cat by putting a binder clip on the scruff of its neck, rendering it passive and immobile until it's removed.

Here, knock yourself out: http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/07/11/funny-pictures-videos-deactivate-a-cat/

My eye fell on the comments and the proliferation of lolspeak, or however it's classified now -- in particular to the diversity of interpretations.

I am an Internet Expert, just like Kim Jong-Il, so I've seen my share of lolcats. And I was under the impression, having, as I mentioned, seen my share, that there was more or less a consensus on the mangling of English that makes those kitties seem so adorable. Stuff like "o hai" and "I haz" this or that. Much in the way that a picture of a cat with a caption is only a proper lolcat if it's typeset in the Impact font.

So I noticed the wild divergence among the comments on this page and, my interest being piqued, I tried to suss out who these people might be.

It seemed unlikely they were hip, clued-in young nerds -- they have always shown an intense bias toward conformity in the context of emergent Internet culture. Memes spread because these guys take pride in taking a new artefact and emulating it correctly; straying too far from the original parameters dilutes the humor.

They also couldn't be Internet Experts like me and Mr Kim because they were polite and cheerful, and actually conversed with each other in this comment thread as if they knew each other from other threads -- but I got the distinct impression they ONLY knew each other from these threads.

When I noticed many of these comments, like the one here quoth'd, the answer revealed itself.

They were moms.

Not women. Not adults. Moms, specifically. Moms who have a computer and enjoy funny cat pictures and who don't care about the conventions of lolspeak, but delight in the silliness and creativity of mangling their spelling.

How adorable is that?