BottomShelfVodka
21072
363
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#bottomshelfmemes
This is nothing. Here's the whole shebang https://imgur.com/gallery/qo63Eyu
Aug 27, 2025 7:49 AM
BottomShelfVodka
21072
363
15
#bottomshelfmemes
This is nothing. Here's the whole shebang https://imgur.com/gallery/qo63Eyu
KilroyLichking
It would be really terrible if people knew about adversarial noise and how it flummoxes AI moderation
Juttypants
Well, what did everyone think all the "whats your favorite x" "show us x?" "Tell us about x?" themes were about? Badges?
jerusalemspider
We don't need no stinking badges!
Gnakenheimer
Communities are not commodities!
noWhiteHorseHereJustBatturuPrinsu
You'd be surprised about how numbers can lie if they are collected and molded to convince investors to invest more money. Especially numbers generated by IT applications, where VPN's, changing IP adresses, bots mass creating accounts and AI pretending to be humans is becoming the norm and not the exception.
Laylah77
Wow
wehde69
A valiant effort to save this community:
/gallery/shameless-plug-if-anyone-usersub-is-looking-new-home-s3nd-has-got-you-covered-GXNAyaU
Tenugui
41m US users and 194 million page views? That's like 4.7 page views per person per month. It's a meaningless average though since the vast majority of the 41 million must only view one page, and Spiders PageView looks at 153 million pages per month.
Aspernari
Yeah, those are dogshit retention/engagement numbers.
whoatherebigfella
Did you mean Imgur
BottomShelfVodka
It's pronounced Imajer
BlueSunBlueSun
insert .gif prononciation giffy clip here đ
mymustachecallstheshots
Its only imgur if you are in user sub. Otherwise its just sparkling facebook memes.
RevengeIsIceCream
... with a much better comment section.
Targe0
Sparkling Facebook memes is the counterfeit product.
It's Sparkling Reddit for the proper stuff.
RevengeIsIceCream
Is the g pronounced as the g in gif, or as the g in gif?
CyanideBreathMint
Yes
CookieMonstersCrumbs
What's kinda sad is that we used to have hundreds of millions of users. They killed off the user base and are bragging about having a small fraction of what there used to be.
Shaodyn
In 2022, there were 300 million. Business Daddy destroyed almost 87% of the user base in just 3 years.
Userlivewire
But what are all of those users using instead?
Shaodyn
I have no idea.
Morganelefay
In slight fairness, this specifies their US userbase, and I can't imagine the US had 300 million users.
miertfoglaltmindenfelhasznalonev
They also specified their total user base as 81 million. So ok, then âjustâ quartered their user base.
Shaodyn
"Only" destroyed 75% of their user base in 3 years. Not much of an improvement.
yakkus
#LateStageImgur
Userlivewire
Where did those users go?
0RocketCat0
From what i can find, they started going to reddit when reddit started hosting it's own images, and the share has been gradually shifting more that way for about 8 years, now.
CookieMonstersCrumbs
Yeah, it was inevitable that most of the users were ghost users from reddit, but I found it funny either way.
yamamasyamaha
My wife used Imgur for a while
The sexual theme days turned her off. She got 2 weeks in and was like every day there are theme days that are just pictures of women
My wife is a modern feminist, but fishnets, redheads, and huge tits just arenât her thing.
Some of this is the fault of the Imgur community. You canât make a community that is simultaneously super progressive while it posts so much âmale gazeâ content, while also not being willing to engage in conversation about any of it.
Userlivewire
Imgur really needs to force tags on that stuff and create a filter so you can turn it off.
ShadyEsperanto
god so much this. i'm a guy and the sheer amount of thirst posting on here is gross. you want to post pictures of yourself? absolutely, you should do that. but sharing your private collection of non-nude porn you've collected from instagram is just fucking weird. i can find my own porn, thanks
also every time i say something like this i get downvoted to hell for "not respecting the community's traditions" or some dumb bullshit like that
yamamasyamaha
Ezakly
theworldcouldbeflat
Part of the downvotes is people can block all that content by not allowing mature content, you have to take extra steps to allow it in the first place.
yamamasyamaha
You said both that you have to take steps to block it and that you have to take steps to allow it. Both canât be true, and the latter is the one that is false
Blocking tags doesnât work when people donât tag things. Plus, you have to be logged in to block anything. If youâre a lurker and are deciding whether to join, that content can affect your decision
Might be time to accept that âtitty Tuesdayâ and âthigh high Thursdayâ are actually just cringy and weird, not special and cool.
BarryARief
I have to agree. Male, hetero, in loving relationship. It often looked like lots of silly little boys lived here. Objectifying women is not cool. Judging people is not cool. Being cool with everybody is cool. every---body. cool?
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
Fuck off. You're lucky if theres more than 35k users left on here
JustLettingPeopleBeWrong
This motherfucker doesn't understand the distinction between users and visitors.
darkusblack
Yeah but they all visit 2500 times a month.
LychFinderGeneral
Visitors =/= active users
TinyOctopus
Say you don't know how to use Google analytics without saying you don't know how to use Google Analytics
FireBelow
This reply says you first and foremost don't even know what Google Analytics is.
And the most hilarious thing is that at least 24 people (atm) also have no idea and upvoted out of total ignorance
TinyOctopus
As someone who did SEO for five years, using Google Analytics to, among other things, do A/B testing for landing pages and calculating bounce rates and the effects of various advertising impacts on site traffic and conversion rates, tiny octopus is very familiar with this stuff. Admittedly, it was from 2009-2014, before Google went full evil, when Alexa was still around.
That being said, the initial estimate of ~35k users is way off base, and that was the point tiny octopus was making.
FireBelow
Also, you're telling them that they don't know how to use someone that you didn't just use to confirm what you upheld (regardless of the fact that you couldn't use it at all, unless you manage Imgur), but that you last used over 10 years ago.
This whole thing has streaks of genius all over it
Like a kid who jumps into a discussion taking one random side just to pick on the other guy, despote not even knowing what's being discussed
TinyOctopus
Oh look. Site metrics. Sorry. Say you don't know how to use *checks jpeg* similarweb without saying you know how to use similarweb.
FireBelow
As someone who did that, you don't know that Google Analytics can only be used by who manages the site.
Sassily telling a random user "you don't know how to use it to see Imgur's stats" is like telling them to buy a yacht with Zuckerberg's credit card credentials.
And dumb people keep upvoting fake competence while downvoting reality.
Fantastic
TinyOctopus
Yes. Now that is the case. Before they shuttered Alexa, seeing site traffic was really easy. And seeing landing page metrics even if you didn't own the site was readily available as well. Heck, it's still easy to see basic site metrics from other places. Wait. Is Semrush still a thing?