ImgurReviews of imgur.com

Liberal/Woke site that blocks conservative and anti-establishment memes and images. I discovered the site was funded by millionaire investment bankers.

Occasionally linked to funny animal memes on Imgur from external pages. One day decided to look around for more hilarious animals and within 30 minutes, realized I'd stumbled upon one of the most vile echo chambers I've ever had the misfortune of encountering. I'll never go back. I'm no fan of the GOP but I was stunned by the rabid hatred and blatant totalitarian leftist political bias in the vast majority of posts on this site. Most of it is not humorous, but just downright disturbing in a Maoist/Stalinist sort of way!

Used to be good at one time. Not now and some very questionable "humor" there.

Biased as hell. I remember when Imgur was a method to escape with lots of laughs. Now you can't even express your own opinions without getting flagged. I mean seriously, even as a Democrat, I can't handle all of the hate-shaming and villainizing against Republicans and conservatives. The political bias is just too much for even me to handle.

A site full of left-winged indoctrinated extremists promoting discrimination, hate speech and segregation.

This use to be a fun site years ago until the “Left” slowly creeped in and spewed there vile left wing propaganda all over it. I wouldn’t let anyone under the age of 18 on this, but if your not left wing then you probably know that already. I’d say 70% is bots pushing left wing propaganda and 20% is left wing followers/kids who have been brainwashed, the other 10% are just normal people trying to enjoy the site. For me it’s no longer tolerable. Every other post is political hatred towards anyone who challenges their beliefs.

The site supports people which insult you if you dont support their opinion. You have to be a minority and shout as loud as possible so your opinion is right. Once i critized LBGTQ how they are trying to force people into their believes. BLM is the same, even when you show them studies and statistics they are learn-resistant. If you go into discussions with the users its nearly instantly that you get insulted as racist or other stuff (even when you just mention that you dont support BLM or LGBTQ - didnt know gays are some kind of race) My posts got deleted because it 'offended' people. Try to avoid commenting on this if you are middle to a bit right winged. Just use it for some Memes and avoid posting on political stuff.

over the years, Imgur has degraded in quality, and that includes quality leadership too. more and more i keep seeing content which breaks their own rules appearing on the FP (the Front Page, aka the most viral, what’s typically first and foremost for users that access the site without an account, i.e. likely a majority being children); a couple or so days ago, i made an account to report one of these posts that crossed my way; i typically hope the community takes care of it, but i guess i wanted to help, since you can only report a post if you have an account (wild, right?). the post was a four panel comic of a perverse joke, with the punchline blatantly depicting three people nude, screwing. i repeat, the post was a four panel comic of a perverse joke, with the punchline blatantly depicting three people nude, screwing. *this breaks their first rule* regarding explicit content; literally spelled out in one of its specifications, it states as not allowing “any depiction of sexual activity, explicit or implied (drawings, print, animated, human, or otherwise)”. you would think that it wouldn’t even need to be spelled out, the idea that a depiction of three people, completely nude, screwing, is explicit.. i thought so too, but after sending in report after report, the post stayed; even after commenting how it is rule breaking, even with other users agreeing and posting similar comments, moderators kept the post up, and inadequately “addressed” the issue by tagging it as a mature post long after it had gone viral and made the FP. i have to note how *immensely* inadequate, too, because in their own explanation of what a mature tag means, it states again verbatim, “Sexually explicit content is never allowed on Imgur, even if it's marked as mature”. It was mind blowing. but, given my hope for communication being able to solve rational, truthful, problems, i opened a separate support ticket, to have it be removed, for the user who posted it to be warned/handled/etc., and to also address how at least one of their moderators are at direct fault. But, about five hours later, a “Senior Support Specialist” named Martyn, replied; and began by diverting/gaslighting from the issue at hand, immediately going into paragraphs of saying (this is a paraphrase for the sake of brevity but sincerely accurate) “oh I’m so sorry, we try to make sure people aren’t affected badly by ‘mature’ posts; I’ll mark it as so, and you won’t see it in your account anymore because of the ‘mature tag’ since you can opt out of it with an account, don’t worry”, and then went on with the same corporate cheap cologne scent style of communication by attempting to change the topic and asking personal questions as if it was resolved. It was disrespectful, see-through, and patronizing. I literally had to ask in a responding email if they even read my opened support ticket or saw the post, but I quickly realized the truth and cut off contact, saying don’t even bother in replying. right then and there it became clear to me that Imgur isn’t worried about integrity, even when it comes to their own platform’s rules and distinctions. And I’m confident in saying Imgur, because to quote them, all the hired moderators “have constant contact throughout the day in a private Slack channel” and must have spent some good deal of time in those five hours discussing the foolish mental gymnastics to respond with to express their willful sickening hypocrisy and ignorance. Basically, anyone who cares about their children, about logic and common empathy and has self respect, look elsewhere for content. myself, I cut the cord on Imgur, after the near decade of frequenting, after this experience. i had more and more of a feeling over the years of its direction. and Because I care about honesty and clarity, I hope nothing but misfortune on those liars and posers and would be glad to add my thoroughly saved documentation of this illuminating experience to the class action lawsuit that I hope one day blows up in their face. Stay safe in this digital age of information and remember that there are real people even behind the facade of a screen, and whether it’s for the sake of ego or evil or profit or all the above, it really doesn’t matter, they proved they don’t care whether you or your loved ones are scarred or will be scarred, so have feel no shame in turning your backs on that. Peace.