From Wired: one of the founders of ICanHasCheezburger.com has revealed her identity, as part of the annual ROFLcon festivities in Cambridge, Massachusetts this weekend:
Until this weekend, [Kari] Unebasami had always elected to remain anonymous, preferring to operate under the pseudonym Tofuburger. “We were getting all these threats from users at [forum] 4chan,” she explained, referring to 4chan’s attempts to claim the cat macro phenomenon. “I didn’t know how seriously to take them. But I’m officially ‘out’ now, and ready to embrace everything.”
Kari and her partners, co-founder Eric Nakagawa and CEO Ben Huh, are preparing an LOLcats book for the holiday season, so her identity would have been revealed on Amazon.com anyway. A quick Google search reveals more information about Kari Unebasami, including her previous employer (Pacific Basin Communications) her Amazon profile, her TechHui profile, and this picture from MidWeek’s night life section.
Kari is from Honolulu. I expect the Star-Bulletin and Advertiser will run the usual “local makes good” stories when they get the time.
