I've been thinking.......

Ty

You forgot to upvote before you commented. Remember the imgflip 'Rules Of Courtesy'

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A lot of people think that on imgflip.

I don't think it's true, though.

If people were upvoting users, rather than the meme, then memes by popular users would tend to all have the same amount of upvotes (because their fans would come and upvote all their memes regardless of content). But they don't.

Also, if people were upvoting users, rather than the meme, new users would not be able to quickly rise and become popular. And yet they do. DashHopes is an example of someone who went from being unknown, to smashing the weekly leaderboard, very quickly - mostly from interacting with lots of other people with meme comments in a friendly way.

I think it looks like people upvote popular users rather than the meme, since popular users tend to on the front page more often than unknown users do. I think this happens (in part) because of the number of people who visit our profiles directly. Unknown users don't have that advantage, so it's harder for them to get a meme up the stream high enough where the imgflip community can get it to the front page (since nobody can upvote what they don't see). Unfortunately, a lot of good memes are overlooked on the site.

So yes, I can definitely see why you'd be thinking that. It's understandable. And being a popular user definitely has its advantages, but I don't think it's realistic that people's votes come from just one factor (e.g. popularity), without the content of the meme being a factor also.

Hope you don't mind the long comment.

I guess the trick to a good meme is something people can relate to

Yes. People often upvote memes they can relate to. I think that might be the reason that memes about upvotes and the front page often do well.

Hey socrates. How do you make a string of memes like your hate Star Wars 7 page?

It's called a memestream. If you go to your profile, and look on your left, there's an option called "My Streams." It'll give you the ability to make one.

I didn't make the DisneyKilledStarWars stream, by the way. I like posting in it because I find it hilarious that people are pretending SW7 was a decent movie.

Thank you!!!

mr sock crates, sry to crush ur soul, but ur ARROGANT
i like SW7 and i dont pretend to like it. you say im pretending because ur brain is too small to figur out some peeople like stuff that you dont
sry to condradict ur opinion and destroy ur childhood or whatevs but this is teh interwebz, so deal with it

https://i.imgflip.com/17ok8u.gif LOL

Lol thanks for putting me in my place :D

But no, my claim wasn't arrogant, just informed opinion.

Star Wars 7 was, objectively speaking, a poorly done movie.

If you like it, that's up to you. A lot of people like bad movies. I didn't say, "I find it hilarious that people are pretending to like it." I said, "I find it hilarious that people are pretending SW7 was a decent movie."

I think Elongated_Monk could've been an exception to what you were saying.

Yeah, I saw his memes and they were pretty funny. His first three memes he submitted were front pagers. I had never seen that before. The only user I've seen when they first started get a lot of upvotes was Entertainer28. If you'll notice his comments, there's only about 300-something and he has over one million points. That's just unheard of in this site. Everyone else, including me, with over a million points have well over 5,000 comments each.

How do you mean?

His first two or three memes made it to the front page.

Oh, I see. Yeah. I still think it's harder in general for less-known users, but you're right, there are exceptions to that.

I've been here for a while. I comment on the front page, and none of my memes have made it.

What about XenusianSoldier? He made funny memes. He's been here longer than anyone else. When he left he was 18th I think. How is that?

I've actually been here a little longer than him, but I deleted my original account. I was actually here when the mods were still making memes.

This site has mods??

Lol

I actually thought the same when I first started. Now I think differently. I feel like it seems like it's the top (regular) users because it is the top users who remain involved and comment on other memes. And the top &/or regular users here are a much smaller percentage of the visitors to this site. The question I now ask is why so many people bother to view a meme and not upvote or comment. Right now this meme has 13,792 views and 162 upvotes. It seems like a lot of upvotes but the upvotes are only 1.1% of the views. Yesterday I checked the percentages of upvotes of the total number of views for the front page memes and the highest percent was 1.4. Thank goodness Imgflip assigns more points to the upvotes. It's the laughs that keep me here as stated in my meme comment way at the bottom of this page.

I've had 2 replies to my comments in this thread but zero upvotes. There ought to be a law! I just upvoted your comment. That's only fair.

It got 195 upvotes...so im thinking alot of people think that. You posted number memes and the first few got to the front page. Id say thats proof upvoting the user

I see what you mean, I've seen some random, unfunny stuff getting a lot of upvotes. They happen to be created by top users as well

There IS auto votes for popular users, but it's about 15-20. Enough to get them to the front 2 or 3 on the hot page. Then it just takes off from there.

Only the mods know who is upvoting the memes... or maybe they don't and the votes become"anonymous" in the database. I wouldn't think so though.

But if it were like Facebook, where you can See the names of everyone that liked a post, then we'd see the trend for each user.

I still believe to just be creative, but submit at morning, noon, or evening (EST) is best.

I just don't understand the page 9 submits that kill a meme before it can ever have a real chance.

We made it to the front page thank you guys so much! I never expected it but it happened, and I couldn't have done it without you guys.

Not only that, but the top of the front page.

Awesome. Running a similar experiment on this link.

imgflip.com/i/17kkow

I went ahead and upvoted that for you bud

https://i.imgflip.com/glboz.jpg

So true.