Most new memes are completely inscrutable to me, probably because I don't use much social media anymore besides Hexbear. But I still feel nostalgic for memes like this and other memes that were popular when I was in high school

  • cosecantphi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    From my hazy memory of that time period I think I remember the problem being that imgur users did not know which posts were simply hosting images for reddit threads and so they'd end up in the comments of the imgur post all confused, sometimes hostile to the person who posted the image, not understanding it wasn't for them.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Imgur was literally founded by a Redditor to host images for Reddit, but eventually Reddit started hosting its own images and Imgur started having its own comment sections. It's carcinization - every website eventually becomes cancer.