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About Ben Huh

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Ben Huh is the CEO of Pet Holdings, Inc. and oversees more than 40 popular humor sites. He is a former journalist turned dot com entrepreneur who has a knack for nailing the zeitgeist. Ben has been credited with bringing Internet memes to the mainstream and popularizing Internet culture. The success of his business is attributed to his knowledge of memes, viral content, and crowd sourcing. Ben has been featured in The New York Times, TIME, the Los Angeles Times, and Wired, among many publications in print and online.

About Pet Holdings, Inc. & Cheezburger Network

Pet Holdings, Inc is the parent and holding company for the Cheezburger Network. I Can Has Cheezburger was launched in 2007, as a collection of LOLcat images. As the popularity of the site grew, new blogs were formed featuring different themes styles of images and videos.

Today, the Cheezburger Network hosts 50 different sites filled with humours content, some complete with their own image creation services.

Live Video Chat

Tuesday, November 30th at 2:00 PM Pacific

On November 30th at 2:00 PM Pacific (What time is this for me?), Ben Huh will be at the deviantART Headquarters talking LOLs, memes, and other Interwebs-related things and he will be taking your questions!

The live chat will take place on uStream, so if you'd like to participate in the chat during the event, be sure to sign up for a free account.

Ben will be taking questions from the audience during the event, but we'd like to gather some questions beforehand.

Post your questions in the comments below!


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~NanaTheFurret Dec 24, 2010   General Artist
Darn it I can't believe I missed this D:< I FREAKING LOVE LOLCATS! I practically breathe them xD
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*Tifa22 Dec 10, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I love the lolcats! :iconveryexcitedplz:
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~Plaguemotes Dec 7, 2010
Old meme is old. 4chan has the deets.
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~Photogrartist Dec 3, 2010  Professional Photographer
Haha, love the caption. Thanks for using my image.
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~Icyiceman Dec 6, 2010
Which one is yours?
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~Photogrartist Dec 6, 2010  Professional Photographer
Top right corner, next to the title.
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~Icyiceman Dec 6, 2010
Hah, good 4 U.
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~rosey-the-fox Dec 2, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
What is your naem agin?
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Mood: dA Love *PurpleDaizie2 Dec 2, 2010  Professional General Artist
:D Cool :D
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~SpikeyBlueHedgehog Dec 1, 2010  Student Traditional Artist
This sounds totally fun!!:D:D
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