don't get too butthurt by this lol

You do realize that the simple fact you posted this anonymous makes it rather obvious you care about upvotes. Most likely more than the people you haven chosen to hurl negativity towards. Except you chose to do it like a person yelling you suck from a car window as you drive by too fast to be recognized. I do have to give you credit for the don't get butt hurt title, in most cases it might stop anybody from disagreeing with you for fear of being called butt hurt. I however am beholden to no such fear. Not sure if I'd be willing to walk into a room full of people with a Guy Fawkes mask on, tell them all how little life they have, then yell over my shoulder, "but don't get butt hurt about it" as I walk away. What do you think is worth getting butt hurt over? Like if I pointed out your meme makes it sound like the people on the board don't have long to live. That is what you said isn't it? How little life you have? Now I'm pretty sure you didn't mean they would be shuffling off their mortal coil sooner based on upvotes right? I'm sure you meant to add "how little *of *a life you have." Strange isn't it, how just three little letters can change an entire meaning like that. I am not however here to flame war or whatever with you. I just wanted to make a point, about how negativity breeds more negativity and then who wins? I'd much rather be doing anything but commenting on this meme but it seems some people have a misconception about what this site is about. So here I am Mr. Butthurt trying correct this grievous error. Thanks for that, you gave me the perfect opportunity here. You see if you had put Jying has little life I wouldn't have cared. You didn't though you went after 100 people most of which are here for the same reason I am. They are creative fun loving people that were lucky enough to find not only an outlet for their creativity. They also were lucky enough to find a community to bounce ideas off of, a place they could go and create anything they want and share it. A place where negative comments have no place at all. Do you think these people wake up every day and log on here because of upvotes? That none of us enjoy making other people laugh, in a world in desperate need of something to laugh about. All the upvotes do is tell you how many people thought you were funny enough to click a button or tap a screen. You can't become better at something in the future, if you don't keep track of what you did in the past.

Yet you can't move forward if you are always looking back, thinking you don't need to improve. That you are perfect and it's the world itself that needs to change. So instead of rising up to your potential you try to drag others down around you. Which only serves as a means to make them resent you and not want to help you. Say you are some average person who just wants to find a funny meme to send to a friend. You find a website and there are a few good ones, but then there are also a bunch complaining about anything and everything. Are you going to look at the person's user name that made you laugh, or the one who doesn't think what you just laughed at was funny. If they do notice your name and the next time they visit they see a really funny meme you made. They will still associate you with that negative meme, even though you only meant to insult the user who made it, you also told this person you don't think the same things are funny they do. So why should they look for your memes among all that there are to choose from? Instead they will most likely go with the person you were hoping your negative meme would cause harm to. All I'm trying to do here is explain that when you take the time to be negative, there will almost always be a negative outcome because of it. It's simple, if you don't like a meme don't comment on it. Constructive criticism is different, it's pretty easy to understand. If your criticism is not meant to help the person build on what they have, it isn't constructive is it? I realize I'll never make everybody understand why this matters. Why most the people on the leader board believe if a meme makes one person laugh it was worth making. I guess I believe if I can make one person understand that being a troll is only going to make their life more miserable in the end. While most likely helping those they wished to harm in the first place. I was coached very constructively by many when I started here. My first memes were crap and some of my recent ones still are I'm sure. I know I'm not the only one willing to take time out to help another person around here, even if I only have a little life left to do so....

I started off like the person you described here but soon realized it was a lot more than just a meme generator and that it was a community of a lot of good people.

I guess I don't know about the memer but I was certainly joking. I think it's a good hobby and place for people to share their ideas, beliefs and humor. Well said. :)

Thank you. I went a bit overboard I do believe. It just drives me nuts at times to see people whom the only thing stopping them from having a good time is their own perspective on things. From the outside looking in it may seem like this site is a competition for upvotes. I guess I just choose to believe it is about more than that. The ability to be able to make yourself heard by others these days is not easy. Everything is instant now, instant news, instant binge watching a season on netflix, everybody instantly knows everything, or at least a device in their pocket does. For example back when you had to wait for a certain day and time to catch an episode of a show you liked. The next day at work or school people would all talk to each other face to face about it. Have their own ideas on what was going to happen next..yadda yadda. Or people would all read the same newspaper and discuss it with others as well. While it's awesome that technology has been able to change all that, I think society lost a key way to relate to one another because of it. I also think being the social animals that humans are we have chosen memes as a way to fill that void. Not many people these days don't know who bad luck brian is, haven't seen every template in the popular list multiple times at least. So now instead of talking about this show or that to relate we text a meme to somebody that says I think this is funny do you? I agree with this opinion do you? I'm gonna post this on my facebook page because I want people to know I think like this and hope my friends click like on it or even discuss it with me. We are very lucky to be able to make memes in my opinion. I remember the first time one of my memes received over 500 views. Doubt there were many upvotes on it but still I thought, when is the last time I said anything and 500 people heard me? Not only heard me but clicked on my meme to copy it "or because the text was to small to read otherwise lol" Regardless they heard what I said, and some of them copied it to repeat to someone else. Then people started commenting on my memes and I figured out how much that interaction helped me fine tune my ideas. That was it, I became a meme addict, but what I'm addicted to is this new way of sharing ideas. This new type of story telling that fits in to our faster paced society. I write for a living though, so maybe I am making more of a story out of it than there is. It's not up to me to decide how others choose to tell their own..

:)

I totally agree on the instant gratification changing people. I'll admit that I like the convenience of new technology but I think it's creating a generation of impatient crybabies. I'm glad to hear that you write for a living because I would feel a little inadequate if you were just some joe smoe writing all this. ;)

I know exactly what you mean. I can only imagine how much easier school would have been with Google in your pocket. I wonder sometimes just how dependent on technology the world has become. If a solar flare hit us how many people could even start a fire without being able to Google it? The process of schooling is supposed to be for training your brain to retain information. I see little kids with their own cell phones all the time. I have to wonder if always having an answer in your pocket starting so young, makes a person literally train their brain that it doesn't have to store information for more than a day. I'd love to see an experiment where they shut off all phone signals in say one town for a month. Then check the grades of their students compared to the month before. It's a sticky situation but it is up to the individual to decide how dependent they become on technology. No sense worrying about things you cannot change. I make my living online but if the grid failed I'd be fine on my little farm. I doubt at that point many people would be worried about if a bush was a men's room or a women's. But I digress, thanks for the compliment on the writing. It's funny how all this on here looks like so much, compared to how much most people write "normally" to one another these days.When in reality it's maybe a couple pages, of which I've been known to write hundreds of in one sitting when the mood hits me. Like everything else it's all a matter of perspective. Some might like what I write, while others will surely be wishing I'd just shut up and make memes already lol.

I need to come back here for the read when I have time

Well then I should be at the top. But nope, I'm just sitting here, fapping and browsing memes with my lowly 20k points.