The site is filled with hate. Messages saying "kill all the Police" are not uncommon. I reported them to Imgur and nothing happen. It is cesspit congregating sad individuals manipulated by certain interest groups.
IMGUR might be the most toxic community I've ever seen. It is run by a group of lunatic leftists who will ban anyone who even remotely wavers from towing their political agenda. If you want a peek behind the scenes of Antifa's ideology and network, this is it. They call anyone and everyone they don't agree with fascists and nazis. Their power users, who are all linked up to a discord server which includes the mods and head of community routinely threaten violence and spin up mobs to attack other users.
I set up an account and posted the below picture, which was enough to get the account banned (irony intended).
One can only hope that the corporate advertisers wise up and recognize that they are associating their brands with a hate site.
It's a cesspool of people that love to attack one another and spread hateful comments. If you are too old, a different skin color, or a woman, I would avoid this place. It's got more hateful ideology than I've ever found anywhere outside of maybe Reddit.
On top of that, the mods let it happen and are on board with it. I pointed out that someone was being ageist and they could be fired for that in the real world, and they flagged my comment with a "warning" that it goes against their community standards. LOL what standards? These idiots need to take a long look in the mirror.
I commented on someone who posted that they don't know how to feel about trans women in women's sports. I commented but didn't say anything bad about trans people, i made a valid point. They threatened to suspend my account because it goes against their abusive, harassing, hateful, bullying, or discriminatory policy. Because I don't believe that a man should be allowed in a women's locker room and I can't get behind this movement that exposes young girls and women to rape and sexual assault they removed my comment and threatened to deactivate my account. They think they're these accepting and tolerant social justice warriors, yet if you don't agree with one of their ideologies you'll get banned.
Imgur does not even pretend anymore, at this point, to be unbiased or considerate of any even keeled or respectful perspectives. The bias is extremely apparent. In an age of extreme partisanship in all corners of the Internet, Imgur manages to do the impossible: it stands out. There really isn't another site that reaches this levels of blatant disregard for objectivity that the platform does. My words really don't matter, though: just look for yourself. Provoking anger, either amongst its supporters or detractors, seems to be the only goal. I suppose, somehow, that this emotional surge is supposed to be positive in the service of some greater cause, but a permanently angry and incensed population seems to be the opposite of helpful to me in attempting to solve the issues in the world, no matter what your perspective is. Imgur is what it tries so hard to tell you that it isn't: an angry, fuming monster spewing rage at the invisible "enemies" it claims to be fighting.
Imgur used to be great 10+ years ago. Now it's filled with obviously promoted propaganda and censorship. Well there was even censorship 10 years ago. I remember posting pictures and art and being made fun of by nasty toxic drones. I tried to post a picture about the millions of people starving in Yemen and it got down voted and censored. That is both disgusting and disturbing. These people have no souls. Total narcissistic psychos. It's still okay for hosting private images I guess, but for entertainment it's garbage.
Imgur is not a place for decent, original human beings who are creative and come up with their own stuff. If you look at anything art related that is posted, it gets immediate hate and has a bunch of 30 year old men with no jobs, live in their mom's basement and have cheeto dust all over their long, crusty beards saying how trash it is. If what I just said describes you, then congratulations! You should go to Imgur! But chances are, you are an actual intelligent human being if you understand how toxic it is and you are reading this. So yeah, would not recommend, -100/10
This is a hate site. There is no room for opinions that oppose the totalitarian regime. All shall be silenced who question the czars of Imgur. It is a left-wing police state. Don't use Imgur unless you are a far left-winger and just want to hear your own opinions spoon fed back to you in the great echo chamber. Imgur dulls the mind quickly as there is no real intellectual debate or conversation. Logical arguments back and forth do not exist. I'm guessing Imgur is probably fun for teenagers who think they are the next Che Guevara or something. Anyway, thank you for attending my TED talk.
Desperate women seeking whatever attention they can get through soft porn posts. Thirsty guys lavishing them with praise while hiding in their white armor and ganging up on anyone who disagrees. Its like Tinder. But the worst, by far is the terrible mods, they feed into this circlejerk while claiming they dont, they are outright hateful to anyone they dont approve of, and they will never change so long as the same desperate women and thirsty men keep giving them ad revenue.
They are legitimately terrible people filled with malice and greed and have no business trying to say they are good.
Wake up and take your daily lexapro with a glass of soy milk? Switch on the t.v to CNN? Wave goodbye to your wife's boyfriend when he leaves in the morning? Humourless and sensitive? Workshy and entitled? Attracted to anime children? Low testosterone?
You might be an imgur user.
These welfare children don't deserve a $#*!ty mud hole in the ground and they have a whole website to share their repulsive opinions. It USED to be memes, I'm talking 2015, but when the woke mind virus hit, it was ground zero for anonymous libtard freaks to start posting cringe.
I've been on the imgur site and app, and it's my first time too. I been noticing a lot of silly pictures, and I think it's fine when I see stuff like that.
However, I also noticed that there are posts and pictures always pointing to how much of a "problem" that the republican party is, let alone posts disregarding Trump. This is coming from someone who was once a supporter of Trump, and having been on the democratic side in the past (Now I'm Independent), the site had turned into an anti-trump and anti-republican webpage which doesn't really help. Soon as I posted a meme pointing out how both parties are bunk, or even leave comments pointing out how both parties are nothing but controlled oppositions or two sides of the same coin, I get downvotes. Not that I have a problem with it, but it does speak in regards to how people think and what that site has become.
Went for the means, left for the bootlicking of the American DNC. The mods do nothing to stop the spread of misinformation and propaganda. I'm no Republican, but any comment against narrative of imgur's toxic community is met with insults and accusations of being a Trump worshipping fascist. Meanwhile, they worship corrupt corporate polticians. Beyond that, it's rife with trauma dumpers dying to be pittied and gofundme scammers with loose sob stories that the gullible idiot masses eat up like cake. Rational people should avoid this app/site like the plague that it is.
If you're left winged, anti republican, anti Christian, then Imgur is the place for you. If you're right winged, Christian, anti democrat, you get banned. Hundreds of memes bashing Republicans, Trump, Christians, etc. Those are all fine. If you dare post a meme or a comment defending Rupublicans, Trump, Christians, or if you dare to bash democrats or biden, then you get banned very quickly. Try to email support to get some clarification as to why you get banned, and they will not respond to you.
Imgur is run by a couple of amateurs that are unable to understand even the most simple sustomer experience. Everytime I try to post, sonething goes wrong. Occasionnaly the entire post + the entire text disappears. It does not give you an error or anything it just $#*!s with you and leaves you there.
Their advertising is the worst. Their service is non existent. You won't get a reply if you're question is more complex then Hey how was your day.
The users are also terrible. Every post that has something of a LGBTQ remark in it automatically makes the front page. Everybody tries to be some kind of moral knight while in real life they're mostly nobodies that won't do anything. Except crying about how life is difficult and how supporting the imgur community is.
If I'm ever to return to this site it would be because literally every other site on the internet is offline.
I'm going to focus only on the negatives here, as the praise has already been said.
My main concern is that fact that Imgur uses no less than 40 trackers to mine information about their users which they then sell. Every privacy-minded individual should be concerned about this fact. Using the Ghostery plugin alongside with Adblock blocks them all, however. I would not recommend using Imgur without Ghostery or Do Not Track Plus.
My second concern is the comments. They're truly the worst of the worst The comments section of submissions is basically a popularity contest to see who can make the most ironic, humorous, or pop culture reference-laden comment the quickest. Seldom will you find anything intelligent in the comments.
Lastly, the content. Upon visiting the site, the front page is loaded with horrible memes and such stupidities. But if you delve deeper, such as into the /r/ reddit categories, it gets better.
Imgur used to be a fun image-sharing website with nice spontaneous new meme trends & bandwagons, the occasional storytime, and cute dog gifs. I've struggled to find anything even remotely close to that for the past few years. The company has made it impossible not to use their app which doesn't work very well, tries to make up forced trends like "{insert random wannabe quirky thing no one's ever asked for} day!", and is far from above board with their mod practices. The community has followed, and most of the good fun meme-making users are gone, to be replaced by people who take themselves way too seriously and are quick to harass others. There are no more memes, and strictly nothing funny; this website has become the worst.
As a major image hosting site, Imgur have existed for years and still outrunning their other competitor, a good place to post pics that you take yourself and can be done without even signing up with them, but if you want to ask for the user opinion about your photo, I don't recommend you do that on Imgur because their user can be so toxic that it will hurt you just by reading the comment they posted. Sometimes can be a fun site but then suddenly everyone start hating each other for some ridiculous reason.
This website has unfortunately devolved into an extreme liberal echo chamber. They celebrate conservative deaths and repeatedly call for violence against anyone who is even moderately conservative. This public forum needs to be regulated and controlled just like the liberals who have controlled facebook and twitter. Equality is a two way street.
The one site I thought I could actually express myself on, disregarded two posts that I tried to post that diffused suicide and was expressing my current situation on. I didn't go into detail of myself or anything but they shut me down, twice. $#*! them.
I was a member since it was just for image sharing. Now you can't post anything with being bashed. Literally anything. My last post was of 10 hot rods from a car show. The comment section turned political within 5 comments. I'm not too political but it eventually sucked me in. I posted some crime stats from the FBI.gov website and was shadow banned immediately! Made a new account and posted some stats from homeland security about being prepared. Immediately shadow banned. I contacted support and never ever heard anything back of why. I'm pretty sure they just block my email address. No matter who you are stay far away from this site if you believe in First Amendment. Because they sure are not for it. They preach freedom and democracy but they don't practice it. It's too bad. It's almost comical how bad this website is.
Imgur has a rating of 1.8 stars from 80 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Imgur most frequently mention front page, left wing and toxic community. Imgur ranks 84th among Photo Sharing sites.