HOW TO GET MORE UPVOTES

Thanks 4 the help. :-)

And always leave some space at the bottom. Some sites overlay a logo or click-to-view" type image at the bottom.

i literally put so much hard work into my memes and barely get any views but when i put a preset gif and named it Dancin' IT LITERALLY GOT 700 VIEWS i only made one meme with hard work that hit 700 views

A **LOT** of "old timers" have LEFT *PERMANENTLY*. Those of us who haven't talk about "the OLD Imgflip".

Basically there has been a HUGE increase in the number of GARBAGE memes posted to the Fun stream. It's like a hose--for each "drop" (meme) someone puts IN, a drop has to fall OUT.

MOST memes in the Fun stream "fall out" within a FEW HOURS at most. The old-timers know it's pretty much a waste of time submitting a meme to Fun--that's why someone created the frontpage stream.

Several years ago I had two memes get over 15,000 views each. But both of them were text already circulating on the Web as text on T-shirts. A LOT of the memes that DO get loads of views are text already circulating.

And frankly, something "old-timers" have remarked about for YEARS but have never gotten a credible answer to, OFTEN a few memes that are REALLY MEDIOCRE manage to "grab" the "Hot" spot in Fun and get TENS OF THOUSANDS of views and stay there FOR DAYS--which, of course, means GOOD new memes "fall out".

Very good advice. I'm new here and still getting into the swing of things. I've always had a nick for humor including meme making, and those tips will help alot.

Another thing to be aware of is "dead memes", i.e., templates that were popular for awhile but died out. You could spend quite awhile making a meme with one of those and peoples' reaction (which they WON'T tell you ...) will be "Yecch ... DEAD MEME!" And they won't upvote it.

I get it. Any way to know if ones dead?

Keep in mind that my original "advice" meme was posted several years before Imgflip changed the Fun stream and introduced user-created streams. Most of the streams *I* participate in, e.g., Dark_humour, almost exclusively DON'T use popular images, except maybe Bad Luck Brian and once in awhile The Most Interesting Man in the World.

A major difference with user-streams is that featured images don't "fall off" the list. You can select New and keep clicking "Next" and go all the way back to the first meme posted in that stream. So although you don't get the benefit of "other users of this template", you do get the benefit that a new member viewing frontpage, for instance, is seeing a topic S/HE is interested in and PROBABLY at some point will go all the way back, and still upvote.

Also, a theme could be dead in one stream but not another.

The only way to have an idea about "dead" is to REGULARLY look through streams like frontpage. It used to be that pretty much everyone only used Fun. But Imgflip made some changes about 18 months ago and now Fun is basically crap.

>"Imgflip changed 18 months ago"
>The reply is 2 years old
So basically, Something happened circa July 2018 that I missed because I wasn't active here at the time.
I joined on 06/19/2016. As an old timer who left indefinitely three years ago, this is news to me.

I see...so user created streams are relatively new, huh?

Another thing to be aware of is generally DON'T POST in the Fun stream. That USED TO be THE place to go, but for about a year it gets "CLOGGED" where a few pretty crappy memes can stay posted FOR DAYS, and MOST memes posted to the stream will fall off "Latest" within a few hours, and then no one sees them.

What you WANT TO post in Fun you generally should post in the frontpage stream instead.

IF you ARE going to post in Fun, FIRST post there, WAIT FOR IT TO FEATURE, and THEN post in frontpage. The Fun mods won't accept reposts, but other streams will.

I DON'T know if MODS can see CREATIONS that are not FEATURED. So if you're going to post first in Fun and then elsewhere, it would be best to wait until Fun has featured, and THEN make your copies and repost.

....oh, and to clarify, you said add a comment with a meme? As opposed to just a comment?

Yes. If you click Add Meme in the comment box it will open to the regular meme generator. When you're finished it will put the meme in the comment.

You can't add an existing meme that way, all you can do for those is put a link.

You do get a certain number of points for posting a comment. That's why you'll see some stream mods post a comment on EVERY meme that gets posted in their stream--it's REALLY to increase THEIR OWN number of points.

If you post a TEXT comment on YOUR OWN meme you get points also. But you only get points for YOUR FIRST text comment on your own meme.

Awesome! Thx for all that. ✌

Not necessarily. The ImgFlip HOME PAGE says: "You earn points when your submitted images or comments are upvoted." (Bottom of Leaderboard past seven days, in the far right.)

But that's NOT how MOST folks get MOST of their points. You get points for COMMENTS YOU POST, even if they are NOT upvoted. You get MORE points for comments that include a meme.

Awhile back someone posted a meme with details about points for meme comments, etc., but I don't remember who and I don't have the meme link.

I do know that there are some mods who will add a comment meme to EVERY meme posted in their stream. That's just a way to increase their points total.

I see....and one more thing, what is a mod? I hear it mentioned alot.

A mod is a stream moderator. I recently set up a stream that I have not made public yet. Moderators can approve or disapprove a submission, mark it safe for work or NSFW, change certain text, remove a meme that was already featured, and a number of other things.

(They would remove something already featured if it draws to much disputes or if someone points out something the memer and mod didn't realize up front.)

Also, when reposting, standard practice is to save the meme on your PC, then create new image and upload that image, re-enter the text, and then hide it by shrinking the size (Arial, 1 pt, no shadow) of the text and the box and changing the font color so it blends with the background (usually black or white), then generate the meme.

The moderator can see all those, which makes it obvious it's a repost.

Also, there's something called "steganography", which is hiding information in an image, such as having some instructions in a "painting" hanging on a wall in the background of a portrait. No one will pay attention to it except the recipient who knows to look for it, then greatly expand the image to read it. Another way to hide something is to us a VERY SIMILAR color for text. Then the recipient uses image-editing software to change the specific color, e.g., change dark red on brown to yellow in order to be able to read it. Although realistically Imgflip isn't worried about that, it IS something a mod could see.

A WAY TO GET AROUND "THE MODERATOR CAN SEE" is to use a microscopic typeface but a TEXT BOX the size of the original text. What the moderator sees is the BOX OUTLINE. The TEXT is in a DIALOG box.

*** YOU GET POINTS BY ***GENERATING*** A MEME!!

If you crate a meme, Generate, Change Attributes, Generate, Change Attributes, etc., EACH TIME you GENERATE it adds 2 points.

AND IF YOU DON'T **SAVE** the meme those points DON'T disappear!

In this case "Change Attributes" means just CLICK THAT BUTTON. You don't have to ACTUALLY CHANGE anything.

Thanks dude

To me this man is a God.

==> UPVOTES AND COMMENT POSTS ONLY ADD POINTS ON MEMES / COMMENTS POSTED WITHIN THE PAST TWO MONTHS <==

What if you have dogcrap memes?

I don't understand the question.

Idk what to do i borde waiting 4 upvotes

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also I running out of ideas

Stuff I figured, but thx, awesome information 😎

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What do you mean? I did not search up how to get more upcotes then went onto this (I did lol)

yea thanks

Anyone know of another meme site that emphasizes original content. It's harder and harder to get many views on Imgflp while those who know the "formula" get thousands of views with zero imagination.

YOU CAN FORGET GETTING "LOADS OF VIEWS".

YOUR BEST CHANCES ARE TO POST IN THE BOOBS, BOOTY, MILF, AND DARK HUMOUR STREAMS. (Yes--the British spelling, "because of autocorrect".)

I don't post in CATS, GAMES, etc., so I don't know about those.

THE PROBLEM is that streams like FUN, MEMES_OVERLOAD, and FRONTPAGE get SO many posts that basically there is "too much competition".

And OTHER streams have a LOT fewer followers, so ... fewer viewers ...

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ALSO UNDERSTAND--

You get a "VIEW" if someone CLICKS ON THE IMAGE.

A LOT of people ONLY look at memes IN THE FEED. So DON'T assume that they are not being seen.

thx cool

Some other things I've learned over the years, about "points".

LOOK AT THE **ALL-TIME LEADERS**. SOME of them have LESS THAN 100 MEMES FEATURED.

You can get points by POSTING COMMENTS--**MEME** COMMENTS. That's why you'll see "60k CREATIONS, 200 FEATURED."

They'll create a VERY simple meme, like "THANKS" or "Ha!" and then use it as a "comment" all over the place with "upload your own image". They know that if someone does an upvote, often the person whose meme is upvoted will go to the UPVOTER and upvote ALL of that person's memes.

IN OTHER WORDS--THE UPVOTES HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH QUALITY, HUMOR, ETC., it's just "vote trading"--HE upvoted MY meme, so I'LL upvote HIS 30 latest memes."

Doesn't sound like a big deal--but if 15 people each upvote your last 30 memes because you upvoted every New meme in Fun, etc., that would be 450 upvotes because you spend about 15 minutes "shotgunning" upvotes.

I somehow found this and thanks

i cant make good memes