I appreciate that. I hadn't gotten a meme on the front page in over a month and I make a meme about some users getting pissy about political memes and it goes to the top of the front page.
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People just feed on political drama. Imgflip should ban political memes or something because I think the majority of Imgflippers are getting sick of it too and just want to see more original, funny memes on the front page.
Well, there;s where you and I disagree. I believe the users should decide which meme gets to the front pages and they do that by upvoting the memes. If a meme is on the front page it means that enough users upvoted it there.
But I don't mind seeing an assortment of different types of memes on the front pages. It makes it more interesting.
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Yes, you're right. I'm just wondering, who are these people who upvote all those political memes if so many of them don't like them?
There are A LOT of users on the site that don't really show themselves. Casual users who just upvote or downvote memes. Most of them don't even submit memes.We only see the memers who are big names on here. Those are the ones that complain, or that we see complaining.
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Yeah, that's true. I wouldn't be surprised if the Imgflip population was in the hundreds of thousands, especially if you count all those users that create one meme and then vanish for the rest of eternity.
I've guessed there are probably in the many thousands like 25,000-50,000 users, but many of them are no longer active. I would definitely say there are at least 10,000 active users. How active, that's not clear.
The average front page meme will receive 100-200 upvotes. If it does really well, it'll receive 200-300 upvotes. Very few memes receive 300+ upvotes. I have seen a few handfuls with 300+. The highest upvoted meme (gif) has over 600 upvotes. A couple have 500+ and maybe 5-10 have 400+
What I'm trying to get at here is with all these users, the average front page meme gets 100-200 upvotes. This means that there definitely can't be thousands of memers who are on at the same time. Casual users.
Yeah, it feels stale around here lately. Almost a lack of originality. I saw one on the front page here a while back and in the comments the person was like, "I didn't have time to come up with one so I just found this one online and reposted it!". It went on to get many views and over 200 points. People let these points drive them and nothing else anymore it seems. If I have no time or can't think of anything, I simply don't post anything. I doesn't hurt anything or anyone and I feel better about what I do post because I know (to the best of my knowledge anyways) that it is mine.......whether it sucks or not LMAO!!!! ;). As far as these political memes go, I say as long as they are original then that's all that should matter!! We don't all have to agree on everything!! Also, I can safely say that I've never let a meme ruin my day! LMAO!!!
EVERY TIME I SUBMIT A RANDOM, FUNNY MEME, IT GETS 55 VIEWS AND 3-5 UPVOTES; EVERY TIME I SUBMIT A MEME THAT ISN'T ORIGINAL AND JUST TALKS ABOUT THIS SITE, IT MAKES FRONT PAGE
hotkeys: D = random, W = like, S = dislike, A = back
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But I don't mind seeing an assortment of different types of memes on the front pages. It makes it more interesting.
The average front page meme will receive 100-200 upvotes. If it does really well, it'll receive 200-300 upvotes. Very few memes receive 300+ upvotes. I have seen a few handfuls with 300+. The highest upvoted meme (gif) has over 600 upvotes. A couple have 500+ and maybe 5-10 have 400+
What I'm trying to get at here is with all these users, the average front page meme gets 100-200 upvotes. This means that there definitely can't be thousands of memers who are on at the same time. Casual users.
Most upvoted meme/gif on Imgflip.