I joined and I was a member for about 3 months. I posted a lot of content and a lot of my material went viral and I gained various accolades and awards, but the hard part was dealing with what seemed like the majority of users there... which in my opinion were the drecks of society. I've never had contact with so many people who complained simply because you posted a video clip with music, even though the clip when it was published would already be muted and if you wanted to hear the sound all you had to do was unmute. But no they felt like they had to warn everybody else by posting the 'do not unmute' sign or tell everybody not to unmute the sound. Even though I replied to these complainers and told them my rationalization which is that I felt everybody should have a choice to whether they wanted to listen to the sound or not and no one else should dictate or take that choice away from them. In addition there are a lot of nasty, ugly people there that gave me a hard time and when I stood up to them and gave it right back to them suddenly I gained a reputation as being a bit*h and a very ugly person and even one user there called me the dreaded 'c' word which most women hate. They also hated any post or sharing of a post which came from TikTok. And most of the time will downvote your post simply because it's from that SM site. In addition there is so much rudeness and insensitivity there which just tells me the intelligence level of most of these trolls and the person that called me the c word, that was the straw that broke the camel's back and I decided enough is enough and I deleted my account.
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Logan M.
The website claims to be safe but…
The website claims to be safe but constantly there are posts of pornstars, nearly nude women and disgusting comments following. If you have any differing opinion, political, scientific or otherwise you will be ridiculed by the community and insulted no matter what. The entire staff including Alan and Sara are complete gutter trash or play favorites on topics and users. The website screams elitism but I guess that shouldn't surprise anybody seeing as it's based in San Francisco. Do yourself a favor and stay away. No scratch that run away, fast and far. If you thought Reddit was toxic you haven't seen nothing yet.
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Squirelly
Left wing propaganda website which blocks comments from the right
The website is full of disgusting alt left propaganda biased towards Marxist ideology & identity politics. Christians are vilified and are basically portrayed as the worse people alive. Capitalism is horrible and there are numerous misinformation memes & articles against Conservative politics. And if you try to comment against it, you are down voted into oblivion and banned from commenting further. This website represents everything wrong with the USA (world) today. And I'm Canadian. Absolutely disgusting site which is the definition of hate. But as a Conservative I believe in free speech so I don't believe in shutting the website down.
But I can tell you that the people running this site are blocking free speech from the right.
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Chris
A broken shadow of it's former self.
From wikipedia:
In April 2016, it was ranked 16th among Alexa's Top Sites in the United States but by April 2021 it had dropped to #51.
This is no mistake. Many users have quit using the site or never use it to engage with the community. In all honesty who can blame them? You can look at all of the other reviews here about the website, while many are low effort, they ring some truth with very similar accounts.
Not every post/image is about politics thankfully, but many are. If you do not share the same beliefs & opinions you will be treated as a plagued outcast to be ridiculed & shamed. Do not go looking for any political discussions that don't lean heavily left here because you will not find it before it's beaten down or removed outright.
I had used Imgur for many years for all of the memes for my enjoyment, which many other users I'm sure had as well. There was many a slow going night that browsing Imgur helped pass the time when it was far less political as it has become now.
If you want a good laugh, just read the Urban Dictionary entry for Imgur.
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Margaret H.
Leftist commie site fueled by hate for
Leftist commie site fueled by hate for anyone they don’t agree. They beg for tyranny as the fake pandemic takes away freedom.
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Marc
They Recruited Me Into A Radical Leftist Discord Cult
Imgur Storytime: Leaving A Literal Leftist Cult
So back in May of 2020 as things were heating up towards the tail end of the Presidential election, I was posting lots of rage filled and hateful comments and post against anyone and everyone that dared support Donald Trump. I hated Trump for lots of reasons even before the election. Mainly because I believed then and still believe now that he a sexist, bigoted, racist bully. So, because of my strong stance against Trump and the MAGA Cult and my visibility on Imgur I was recruited, yes recruited to an Imgur Leftist community on Discord. As you can see in the Imgur Chat boxes, of which I left out my and the recruiters’ usernames for privacy they were gathering as many Imgur users as possible into this Liberal/Leftist only Discord group with the sole purpose of essentially taking over Imgur for the Democratic/Left Leaning/Liberal ideology and boy was I all for it.
I did join up their little army and I participated in a community that at one point had about 50-60 (last I was a part of it) very active members that would browse User sub for anything at all they didn't agree with, share on the Discord so they can all attack in downvoting so posts don't get traction and see the front page and they would leave their hate comments, baiting OP's into saying something they could use to submit as going against the Imgur community guidelines to get anyone they didn't agree with banned. And boy did this stuff work. I mean, I alone must have gotten at least 20-30 user accounts banned and I know that with this Discord community they would get at least a few a day banned, and nothing even related to Trump/Conservatives/Republicans even sees the light of day on Imgur today, so they are very active still today and very affective.
I enjoyed being part of this Discord because I too wanted Trump gone and the Democrat's back in power. But I promised myself that I would stop the nonsense after the election if Trump lost and he did. Ha-Zah! But I didn't, I was as hateful and vengeful as ever because I was lead believe the idea that Trump is still a treat, so we essentially still needed to be jerks to anyone who agrees with Trump on Imgur. But after a while I grew tired of it. I felt I and this Discord community were becoming just as bad as the MAGA community, so I left. Wish I would have taken some screenshots while I was part of it for more evidence, but I never thought they would turn against me. But that's exactly what they did. I left a single comment, that they didn't like. A single comment that went against their leftist ideology. (I'm not a Dem/Repub/or anything) This single comment led them to then gang up against me, like they do so many others and now even with all my anti-Trump posts, I am the enemy. They downvoted all my comments and posts to hell and even worked together to get my account banned which Imgur seemed happy to do very quickly. Now I knew what it felt like to experience the hateful vitriol of this so-called liberal community that acted like it cared so much about America. And I'm just so over it. I'm done. I'm done with the hate, I'm done with the harassment, I'm done with the abuse. I've truly seen and experienced now why the divide is so great in this country. We are at each other’s throats, playing this game and its disgusting. All while Imgur seems to stand by and let it happen. Because if you really pay attention to the comments of those that attack anyone on the right, they sure don't comply with Imgur’ s community guidelines. Yell, I think that's enough story. I'm sure this will get downvoted to hell and I'll get called a liar, MAGAet, Incel, faker, etc. And they'll work to get this off imgur and yes, new account banned. Maybe they'll even try to put my original account on blast, which will only prove my point of the existence of the Leftist Discord that they unironically titled "Deep State". I still like Imgur and want to be a part of the community, but done with being a part of the political side and hate seeing that there is so much hate being spread within it.
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Joshua
Look at their extremism - anti democratic posts promoted by staff. Imgur.com is evil, bias, and full of hard left conspiracys.
Proof that staff promotes hard extremist propaganda. go to gallery/4QExsjX Just look how they award people for pushing certain political agendas. Then they milk these people for "emerald" and exploit the small minded hard left extremists for all the money they can get.
imgur.com is a censorship platform unless you are a supporter of, not liberal, but hard left extremist ideas, groups, cults, and followings.
There is no down the middle. They promote hate for anything that isn't a, again not liberal, nor democrat, but a HARD left extremism. They are one of the reasons America is getting very tired of it, and a big reason why people are leaving the democratic party and why we will get another horrible president like trump.
As a democrat I am disgusted by the bias extremism here. They are the blue version of hard deep south trump supporters.
They are exploiting these people for money through their emerald program.
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J C.
A liberal propaganda website that is racist, judgemental, and full of misinformation.
A liberal propaganda website. You will be used, abused, and flamed for any opinion other than what you see posted on the most extreme liberal new websites. They create a breeding ground for users to pitch fork anyone with any ideas other than the extreme left.
I am a democrat and this website disgusts me with how they promote such lies and dangerous material. They are trying to program the youth to trust ideas and beings that have no fact other than a entertainment industry of "news" wrote it on their website or displayed it on TV.