A website that displays a range of images that contain memes, cats, dogs, stupid people, political statements, and general asshatery. Acts as a haven for middle-aged, single women obsessed with cats and other "cute" animals; wannabe political activists; and is one giant self-perpetuating circle jerk.
Tries to differentiate itself from Reddit, but no one really cares.
Tries to differentiate itself from Reddit, but no one really cares.
by fancypants212 February 9, 2012
Imgur is a semi-popular internet picture sharing site. The userhood of Imgur is considered much more emotional and understanding than most of the internet, though sometimes people tend to go there and get "karma points" by sharing a pic and claiming they have adopted an abandoned animal or something. Usually Imgur is full of pictures of cute animals, memes, and sometimes you can actually see funny pictures too. Imgur is often used as the photobase of pictures on Reddit.
by Geronimou February 9, 2012
Like Reddit, but full of idiots. The comments section on any picture is disturbingly similar to the comments section on an /r/circlejerk post. Instead of having meaningful discussions like Reddit, they spend all day looking at cats, reading sob stories that are obviously bullshit, posting selfies, and posting albums about how much of an asshole their boyfriend was today, comprised entirely of irrelevant Disney gifs. Again, these stories are obviously bullshit.
The comments section is a mess. Imgur is similar to Reddit in that they downvote any opinion that does not agree with their own. As such, most of the top comments are something along the lines of "+1, I laughed!", "+1 for Game of Thrones/funny word that you used in the post everyone else read!", "I genuinely chortled (a word imgur loves to use) out loud, good sir/madam, have my upvote!", "To the front page with you!" and much, much more. A good amount of posts on imgur are reposts, and most of the comments are.
User sub:
Imgur was created to host Reddit's pictures, but later someone decided to give it it's own community that can post their own pictures. User sub was born: A shithole that most of the sob stories/selfies/disney gif stories/Tom Hiddleston fangirl posts come from. People that browse it like to think they're special because of it, but they're not.
In short, it's a horrible site with horrible people and the only reason I still go there is when I want to see pictures from Reddit.
Stick to Reddit.
The comments section is a mess. Imgur is similar to Reddit in that they downvote any opinion that does not agree with their own. As such, most of the top comments are something along the lines of "+1, I laughed!", "+1 for Game of Thrones/funny word that you used in the post everyone else read!", "I genuinely chortled (a word imgur loves to use) out loud, good sir/madam, have my upvote!", "To the front page with you!" and much, much more. A good amount of posts on imgur are reposts, and most of the comments are.
User sub:
Imgur was created to host Reddit's pictures, but later someone decided to give it it's own community that can post their own pictures. User sub was born: A shithole that most of the sob stories/selfies/disney gif stories/Tom Hiddleston fangirl posts come from. People that browse it like to think they're special because of it, but they're not.
In short, it's a horrible site with horrible people and the only reason I still go there is when I want to see pictures from Reddit.
Stick to Reddit.
by Chowderz December 30, 2014
by Jepptastic February 9, 2012
by cocainepinata April 7, 2015
The greatest image site. Full of the all the wonders and magic of the interwebs. Be forewarned, time has been known to quicken in this realm.
by elzorroloco February 10, 2012
Noun: A petty online community with a collective inferiority complex.
Imgur is a safe haven for maladjusted social rejects and misanthropes with daddy issues.
Do not make the mistake of sharing new or different opinions with these people; they don't like them. Anything that isn't a cat, an attractive woman, or a bare-faced lie will be instantly downvoted.
The downvote is the favoured weapon (real weapons scare them) of the emotionally fragile, thin-skinned imgur user, allowing them the only control over their lives that they have, and letting them live in a magical little fairy world where they get to pretend that opinions that threaten their delicate sensibilities don't exist.
This is a safe space for losers to project their self-hatred onto normal people. A place where cowards hide behind names faker than their personalities to spew hatred at people whose opinions don't fit with theirs. A hallowed ground for wannabe tough guys to come to be the third rate high school bullies they've always wanted to be, but never could be in the real world, because in the real world you actually face consequences for sending death threats to people because you don't like their decisions, or telling people to kill themselves when they have opinions that don't fit in with yours.
Imgur is a safe haven for maladjusted social rejects and misanthropes with daddy issues.
Do not make the mistake of sharing new or different opinions with these people; they don't like them. Anything that isn't a cat, an attractive woman, or a bare-faced lie will be instantly downvoted.
The downvote is the favoured weapon (real weapons scare them) of the emotionally fragile, thin-skinned imgur user, allowing them the only control over their lives that they have, and letting them live in a magical little fairy world where they get to pretend that opinions that threaten their delicate sensibilities don't exist.
This is a safe space for losers to project their self-hatred onto normal people. A place where cowards hide behind names faker than their personalities to spew hatred at people whose opinions don't fit with theirs. A hallowed ground for wannabe tough guys to come to be the third rate high school bullies they've always wanted to be, but never could be in the real world, because in the real world you actually face consequences for sending death threats to people because you don't like their decisions, or telling people to kill themselves when they have opinions that don't fit in with yours.
by narglewarglewoo August 7, 2016