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Ben Huh hasn’t built the thriving online Cheezburger Network mini-empire around cute animals because he hoards cats.
It’s because Huh knows humanity has spent thousands of years making cute animals even cuter. He’s just taking advantage of all that work.
“What we have done to cats and dogs is spend the last 10,000 years breeding them so they would be like that,” Huh said inan interview with Forbes earlier this year. “Kittens and puppies have become weapons of cuteness.” The result: 2 million visitors a month, according to Quantcast.
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