A Lolcat, or LOLCAT, is an image combining a photograph, most frequently a cat, with a humorous an idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English—a dialect which is known as "Kitty Pidgin", "lolspeak", or Lolcat. The name "lolcat" is a compound word of "LOL" and "cat". Another name is cat macro, being a type of image macro. Lolcats are created for photo sharing imageboards and other internet forums. Lolcats are similar to other anthropomorphic animal-based image macros such as the O RLY? owl.