This is a general LOLcow thought, but it came to my mind while I was contemplating Timbox, so I'll post it here.
Many Lolcows show an interesting similarity with recognized modern artists: Working for a very long time on idiosyncratic-seeming projects.
The writer Arno Schmidt (who is thought to have been autistic by some psychologists) suggested that modern literature started with "Sylvie and Bruno" by Lewis Carroll, because it is the first novel in which reality and thoughts/imagination/hallucinations/dreams blend into each other. Carroll worked on it for 20 years, which is another trait of modern literature (as pointed out by Schmidt) - large books are created slowly, over many years. "Finnegans Wake" took 17 years for Joyce to finish, Schmidt's magnum opus ("Zettel's Traum" - roughly: "Dream of Notes") took, all in all, six years. Similarly, Thomas Pynchon writes one large novel every 10-15 years.
When Schmidt was in the final phase of writing "Zettel's Traum", he didn't talk to his wife or anyone anymore, when not absorbed in writing he'd stumble around the garden of his little secluded house in Bargfeld (a small out-of-the-way village in Northern Germany), and mumble to himself. This, and other similarly eccentric behaviours, has led some psychologists to consider Schmidt autistic.
The internet lolcows have their own strange projects which absorb them for years - Chris has been busy with Sonichu stuff from 2000 to the present, Timbox has been working (in the widest sense of the word) on his Asian-cartoon-girls-plus-dinosaurs-starring IMAX movie epic for an unspecified number of years, the same goes for the Golden Knight and his comic. Ulillilia - no, he's NOT a lolcow and may the gods forgive me for putting him into this paragraph... - Ulillilia is, like I said, not a lolcow but he IS autistic and has been creating his novel "The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters" for about 10 years.
Talking about internet lolcows of and some of the modern age's greatest literary geniuses next to each other may seem like a strange thing to do, but it is fun. Recently I went to see Arno Schmidt's Bargfeld house, which has been converted to a museum, as well as the "Bargfeld House of Books", a large antiquarian bookshop in the same village, which sells Schmidt's books as well as rare copies of his inspirations and favorite authors. I talked to the store's owner about Schmidt, and we came to mention the suspicion of autism, to which he said: "Well, this was a kind of educated autism!" Who knows - if some of our lolcows had been exposed not to SANIC, Pokeymanz, Dexter's Lab etc. but to material of greater artistic substance, given their perseverance and tendency to work on strange projects of their own for years and years, they may have developed into great artists themselves...
