So tell me, do you feel lucky, punk?

I guess the pain from the tacks prevents a guy from having sex

dollar tree carries it for a buck. I usually buy two a month. Plastic bottles, too, so I don't have the breakage problem

Thanks for the tip,but I don't cook anything to exotic anymore.

Up your game to!

Awesomeness lol

Thanks. I was surprised it made it to page one so quickly without getting nsfw'ed

Haven't done that since I was 15

after all, you want to protect your wiener.

that was funny

What’s the third object?

something that you DON'T want breaking when you use it. It could mean a lifetime of bad luck

But what is the third object so I’ll know not to breach it?

*break

Um. Tell you when you're older? :)

Sure I guess

Oh now I get it
I know what it is

I thought they taught about those in school these days. back in my day, I had to learn about them on the street.

I had to zoom in on the image to see what it was
I learned about it in school though

We may have to implement something like 100000 point deductions or account deletions if people keep trying to circumvent the rules like this to steal other people's content. Or perhaps the point system and leaderboard are too gamifying and motivate people to recycle the rest of the internet rather than be creative. Perhaps it's time to remove the leaderboard and competition entirely.

If lack of captions, or adding periods/punctuation or mimicked captions set to font size zero are an issue for submissions, I suggest updating both the both terms and submission guidelines to explicitly say so. IMO The terms and guidelines are both vague or even mute on that point. From my perspective, users either need to learn the hard way imgflip.com/i/1u7yrq or have a fellow user explain that unwritten rule, so that they either have improved odds of future submissions featuring or to prevent having their front page creations going back to submitted status by moderator intervention.

It doesn't matter. Pists well within TOS rules are being ignored for featuring. This particular post already had a comment on it before it was featured, even before i shared it, so apparently because the TOS doesnt say no condoms, it was passed by a mod or two. Since users don't have an NSFW tag on memes like they do on GIFs. Since it has not been flagged such, i have to assume that the mods found it acceptable

To be clear, I am referring to the fact that text almost identical to the text in the image was deliberately typed into the meme generator when generating this image, and then the maximum font size was set to 0 so that the text would be hidden. Strictly speaking, we don't know that this was done maliciously, because you could have simply been trying to help imgflip users with ultra slow connections still be able to read the text of the meme (since the meme text is also displayed in the side panel and the <img> alt tag). However, I think it's highly unlikely that this is anyone's purpose when hiding meme text, and ultimately it is still against our community rules to submit an image plucked from elsewhere on the internet with no additional creativity added.

We'd love to hear ideas about how to better enable the Imgflip community to be more creative in their submissions.

I have about 20 years of data collected, both memes I've saved as well as original content. Those that already have the text, I have always zeroed out the font size and retyped the text so it registers for the bots to determine. This way, if there is a taboo word in the text, the bot can properly assign the NSFW tag, as Imgflip has chosen not to make a list of the taboo words available. Prime examples of these are the PUNography memes I post. These are from a website I ran a few years back. This has never been a problem before. Maliciouness? No, it's to keep the aesthetic of the actual meme. In situations where a previous meme was used, I add the originality in the title section. It's known as the flow: it works well alongside the meme, but is distracting within the meme.

Original content. Yes, it is nice that every post here were original. But then, what would be left on the plate if it were restricted so. 99% of the GIFs here would not be posted, and reposted. The key to Imgflip is the number of users that visit and read what's posted. The number of Pro accounts is rather small considering, so that the number of people that visit is based on is what drives the advertising dollar.

I notice that this week, I have had four posts that never were featured. I can assume that the animated GIFs are because of the crack down on original content. Interestingly enough, similar posts only a week before were gladly featured, and have been featured without a problem for some time. Taking this crackdown on my posts shows more a personal initiative of one mod than anything else. You've tipped your hand by making the threatening comment as you pushed this post back to submissions. Your discussion is unusual to find on a post, as it would be better suited in a private conversation with your superiors.

I've noticed sometimes right before imgflip deploys new features, seems like there is an increase in user submissions that don't get through. I heard that happened recently to Jying and Raydog too, right around the time imgflip added new fonts and the viral button. I get what your saying about adding captions for the bot, that makes sense to me.

I guess mod-trolling like above may be one of the reasons that a number of top 100 users have left. Mods forget that people visit this site for entertainment. think what the lack of quality would be if everyone on the top 100 left for a few months. No Raydog, Dashhopes, Jying, Octavia, etc. There's people there that haven't posted in ages.Rarely see anything here from JuicyDeath1025, isayisay hasn't posted in a month. Juicydeath pops in like once a month. But we've lost a lot of good memers. Go through the top 100 and you'll see that some haven't posted in ages. Does this say something about the quality of the average poster's memes that they can't get enough votes to make it to top 100?

for now, I think Imgflip can do without me. I know I can do without their trolls. FWIW, I made front page on Imgur yesterday. You think it's tough making it here, try them. about half of my stuff gets visited by the downvote fairy posse, mostly, I think, out of jealousy.

"We'd love to hear ideas about how to better enable the Imgflip community to be more creative in their submissions."

The thing that makes imgflip great is the community. Since imgflip has been making a lot of changes lately, I humbly request you take some time to offer some feedback via the feedback form on what new website features/functions you would like to see, things that could enable additional user creativity for all. I have some ideas, I'll be sending a form in.

I've used the form, but usually it goes untouched. I did make a suggestion last year about how to improve the GIF animator, and I got a positive response back. The problem with the GIF animator was that it ignored the timing of the original GIF being uploaded. If individual frames were uploaded, then it didn't allow final frame freeze so that people could get the gag. I use Jasc's Animation Shop to make GIFs from scratch and have been making decent animations for about 15 years because I studied the animation process since I was small. Think "flipbooks" and you'll understand. Disney and Walter Lantz studios did some good work on teaching youngsters about how to animate, so I have some idea about what I'm talking about. That was the only reply I've had from Imgflip saying they'd work on it. So far, nothing has come to fruition.

I don't think that the problem was using "unoriginal work" by zeroing out the font size. I've been doing it for a long time, if you look at all of the PUNography posts I've done in the past. Sticking to the rules, I removed the copyright info as I am the copyright holder. Then I'd zero out the font and retype the text box. So far, I've only had one that didn't feature: https://i.imgflip.com/21mwtx.jpg Maybe it was I was dissing Walmart and their tendency to sell Chinese made products. Go figure. My cousin has a shorter tolerance than I do. He took the NSFW posts with a grain of salt, but you'll notice he hasn't posted much in the last six months. He'll say he's been busy at work, which he has, but he's also perturbed that one of his posts didn't feature. He's seen how often that happens here. So, now he's stopped posting.

Imgflip is a community, but like a IRL community, if bad things continually happen, the residents start to leave the community and move to other places.

I sent in a bug report on the gif generator last fall and heard back too. They read feedback, but it seem pretty rare for users to get a reply. Usually when I send in feedback I don't hear back, but sometimes I can still see results. Sometimes they're very subtle changes, other times it's clear as day.

I've learned the hard way, always add visible captions or be prepared for the worst.

I like CousinJohn's car themed memes, hope he comes back.

Giant line of long replys

I see what you did there!

Did you read it all? :)

Almost fell asleep XD
P.S. it wouldn’t let me reply to you, so I improvised

swiggys if i were you i would just ignore this mod guy, look at his profile, hes been here since 2011, yet has barely used imgflip at all heck he has less points than i do, imgflip really needs to pay more attention to who they allow to be mods

I do that all the time. I’m all for original content but I don’t see anything wrong with trying to feature an oldie but goodie....

Maybe stop featuring these memes with no text at all, first? https://imgflip.com/i/22m738

I get this pop-up when I make meme comments, but not when I make memes. I think that's intentional. Personally, I like the creativity of memes without captions, like the old days imgflip.com/i/c64b and back pages of imgflip.com/tag/photography They are risky these days though.

I've been wondering, do you think I'm shooting myself in the foot with all my observations or should I have no regrets if my account gets nuked or the site shuts down?

Waiting 4 hours to get my meme featured! https://imgflip.com/i/22sxkm

I don't think I've ever had one take LESS than 4 hours to feature, and usually shows up on page 10 or worse.

It's been suggested that it's because I use custom images instead of images from the library, but if that were true it would put the lie to their claimed desire for more 'original' content. Plus, I've used images from the library from time to time, with no measurable difference.

I've got one sittin in the queue too. It took 17 hours for my gif from Saturday to feature. I think that one was submitted about the time the ability to do font per-textbox was deployed. I try not to watch them while they're hatching, who knows what's going on at HQ:)

Of beer :)