Imgur

Imgur is not funny anymore
Imgur isn't fun anymore
Imgur isn't entertaining anymore
Its MEAN, its Hateful, its tedious.
It DETROYS any Positive Energy that Visitors might want to share.

The witty sarcasm has disintegrated into shards of cynicism – endlessly regurgitated by the Upvote Whores whose sum-total Contribution-to-Society can only be expressed in Internet Points.

It's like having a cancer tumor that doesn't hurt; it just gets worse every day – and uglier

Actually, its more like Jeff Goldblum's character in "The Fly" – and should probably meet a similar end.

The service is a nice alternative to photobucket. But the community is plagued with closed minded trolls. I never got involved with it but I have literally seen entire threads dedicated to ridiculing a person with Autism just because they are different, and that person wasn't around to defend themselves. The thing was not one person stepped in to defend that person and the post went on about 8 pages and you can actually still reply to it now despite it being around for a couple of years now. Having friends with autism (and even being on the higher functioning end myself), that really makes me sad to see that their community staff allows that to go on for so long.
That's just one example of it being extremely toxic. Most of social media is toxic but Imgur can be next-level toxic. If you want to use it just for a photobucket alternative, or to upload something like a screenshot just so you can have a link to post on your favorite forums, make sure you change your settings to "unlisted" otherwise people will not understand what you're posting there for. Because technically speaking, it's like reddit except just for pictures.
Be advised of the toxicity of that community though. If you want a friendly social interaction, go elsewhere.

The lefties took over years ago, and it's just nothing but propaganda pumping out about how evil everyone slightly less extreme are.

Dreadful, toxic community. I remember way back in the day when the dude on Reddit made the site. I was an early adopter, but then life happened, and I kind of fell out, aside from when I needed a link to upload a pic. I recently downloaded the app, and there's a "community" aspect. These people are some of the most vile, ideologically possessed people, and it's hard to believe it's all organic. Administered content or not, they are some of the most hateful people you'll come across online, and they're all extremely liberal/left wing - not that this is inherently a bad thing, but their polemic political views are the source hate. If you aren't lock-step in all their rigid, administered beliefs, they will *hate* you. Avoid this site, and just hope someone else comes up with a simple image uploader soon. Also, the "feed" function is garbage, and way too one-sided politically to be interesting. They only post things that reinforce their views, and that show how much they hate the people they've been told are their enemies. The longer you spend on Imgur, the worse a human you will become.

Been a member for 12 years. Seen it go from any other image sharing site where mostly memes were posted to an absolutely unhinged hateful echochamber with honestly kinda dangerous fringe elements that go unmoderated. The site has a very obvious liberal bias, which in itself isnt that big of a thing, nowdays there are barely any site that isnt biased, but the extent is insane. I wont make a list of the usual tropes, rather what made me leave the site for good: clear support of terrorism and genocide. Since the israel-gaza conflict multiple posts popped up praising the houthis, and were actually upvoted to frontpage. Comments claiming the hamas attack on oct 7 was justified. Criticizing hamas gets you being piled on, and being called a bloodthirsty genocidal monster (the irony). Suggesting that disenfranchising or EUTHANIZING trump cultists are "good options". These are unmoderated, upvoted posts/comments. Im a lefty/liberal person, but imgur is NOT that, its something that should be monitored by law enforcement.
Advertisers should really spend an hour or two looking at posts and comments unfiltered and ask themselves if they want this platform to be their billboard. Consumers/users (even those who are more aligned with liberals) should avoid it, the couple of cute animal posts does not worth it in the sea of unhinged hate.

Found Imgur many years ago when I was going through a bad time and needed a diversion. Of course it had some American political sh*t posts back then, but they were few and easy to ignore. It also many interesting and funny posts and overall a great place to interact. Not anymore. After almost 4 years, 3.7 million 'reputation' points, and more trophies than a third world dictator has medals, I deleted my account yesterday. Mob mentality rules and is backed by the Mods. If one Doesn't hate Trump, think you should stay in your basement for the rest of your life because of Covid and love BLM, your dissenting comment and post will be dog piled to oblivion and usually flagged by a moderator as a strike against your account because "It's hate speech" or "Promotes harm". I used to be able to appeal via DM to Sarah, MartynMage etc. and have it over ruled. Last few months I would just receive a standard reply to contact support, which never overturns an unfair moderation. It was going downhill like this for quite awhile but really went to crap and became a social justice, full of trolls haven, ever since Coil invested $20 million into it last August and changed the TOS once again, making it so vague that anything that is not a popular opinion is removed for violating it. Side note: Every Christmas they have a secret Santa. Posts of awesome gifts flood the front page. In reality most people get nothing because most people sign up just to get something with no intention of giving back. From a unique and somewhat supportive community it has spiraled into an echo chamber of the SJW PC insane.

This place worships socialism - utterly worships at its altar. Here's the secret to getting to the vaunted "Front Page" - post anything:

Pro Socialism, Pro Antifa, Pro Biden, Pro Leftist, Pro Canada, Pro Trudeau, Pro Europe, Anti Police
Anti Christian / Religion, Anti Right / Republican, Anti America, Anti Trump, ACAB...

The blinding irony of a user-base that decries injustice, yet bullies and threatens anyone else who don't fit their ideologies is so funny that it's sad.

There is a secret Discord server which is invite-only by which an elite handful of people coordinate the suppression the free speech of differing thoughts and opinions by downvoting them into oblivion in order to ensure they don't reach any visibility. What's more disturbing is that Imgur, the company, does nothing to prevent it, because why would they? It's just an accurate reflection of their own ideologies - so I guess it makes sense in the end.

I once posted a meme which said, "Hard to Swallow Pills: You Choose to be Offended".

The Tsunami of hate, toxicity, venom, and outcry was overwhelming. Out of curiosity I looked through the profiles of the most venomous users... without fail, every single one of them were lonely, bitter, out-of-work, no-life-having, blame-gaming, finger-point, take-no-responsibility for their $#*!ty lives, kinds of people. Every one of them made an average of 100 replies to other people's posts in a single day. They obviously don't work, and if they do, they should be fired for not doing it by spending their entire days on their $#*! site.

It truly is a horrible, HORRIBLE website that used to be really cool.

There are some who posts funny pets memes along with a smattering of wholesome things, but they're drowned out by the circle-jerk of users who ejaculate their echoing-ideology into each other's mouths all day long.

0 out of 5 stars - go elsewhere, for your own health and well-being, go elsewhere.