as a #17 who used to be a #nothing, I'd like to see less pouting and threatening to take 'my' ball and go home

And thanks for being one of the first people to comment on my memes,when I first started. :)

I did? Thanks. :)

Yep, you & DeedsterDoo .

I traded e-mails with the Deeds a couple weeks ago. She's doing better but still working back towards the idea of contributing here again. I of course encouraged it. :)

Cool.I hope she does come back.

So do I. :)

I texted with Deeds a few days ago. She seemed glad to hear from me. She mentioned you'd emailed her. I hope she does come back. I think she'd get along well with giveuahint

Yeah. :) I just give a gentle nudge and not a hard push. She has other issues to work through and when she does hopefully she'll make it back. I miss her.

OMG, yes. I needed so much help and almost quite because of some negative comments. I learned the site is more about creating and not posting memes I found on the internet that I found funny. 291c8w.jpg [image not found]

Glad you didn't quit. And you got the gist of the place down. :) Some users take the easy route out, but you can find the creative ones out quickly.

Thanks dude, it is so fun to do and create. I am glad I kept going too. Also you have some really good memes.

Thanks. :) It all about the creativity here. It just takes time for new users to get the gist and I think some of the veterans are giving them too much of a hard time about it.

Ya. I don't think it's the "noobies" . It's the content.

I think sometimes it is. "ur mum gay, ur sister a mister" blah blah blah.

I agree. Sometimes it really is.

Less-than-stellar content that a few 'elite' users are overreacting to. And some of the blame is going to new-to-site users who may have accidentally re-posted something that they didn't know existed. I've just seen a few tantrums lately and I'm kinda tired of the feeling I'm getting from some that imgflip is 'our' site that is being 'spoiled' by newcomers.

I think some of that could be at play also. I have switched sides on this topic a few times until recently. I have gained perspective from conversations such as these. I say let them meme. We can ignore what we don't like. A lot of them aren't even engaging socially, but rather just making these memes and sharing them elsewhere. There was one on the front page the other day and I don't think that user even knew it. There was not a single response from him on his own front page meme. They guy struck gold and didn't even know it. LOL!

Yeah, I've seen those first few pages memes where the creator never responds to comments. It's either as you say and they're making for elsewhere, or they don't know how to 'play the game' so to speak. Like you I say let 'em meme; if they get upvotes then that's how it works, even if they're unoriginal. It's when veteran memers start complaining about it, and I detect more sour grapes from less attention paid to them, that I feel I have to make memes like this one. :P

And full of truth. :) Like I said (if you're reading these in order) you're the example I use of how a top user should be. I was just feeling a little crabby lately about reading some of the comments some of those around me in the top thirty or so were making about how the flip had gone to hell, or words to that effect. I thought 'and you weren't in the place of that swaddling newbie yourself once?' People seeming to forget they once were twats posting old stuff. People bragging about ditching out here to go to sites like Reddit. Places where grumpy old farts get their 'proper' due, but which are boring as drying paint. :P

How's things going with the kid and such? Glad you nipped in to check this out.

I think people lose aspects of the fun of IMG and take it too serious.
in the end we should meme, crap, good stuff, whatever we can, as long as we have fun in the comments and do the same on others memes for laughs and smiles. One day we will all be dead and gone and IMG wont matter, memes wont matter, just the joys of the moment. time is too short to harp on anything, if its not immediate family or close friends shrug it off and move on :)

Thanks for the positive outlook of my memeing and helping people :)

Take care bud, have fun and don't get too hung up on others, just do your own thing and have fun.

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People may not realize that's how they come across unless it's mentioned. You never know who you may have enlightened! :)

Lots of self-absorbed people on the flip, but also plenty of simply clueless ones. :)

I'd say it isn't newcomers vs. Middle school stuff that clogs the arteries of the pages. Reports are fine. I've had some of mine get reported and I up vote them.
However, two button pubg or Fortnite memes day after day gets tiring.
I think the answer is to met them know it's been done. Nicely. Then, maybe by looking at "elite" (I feel weird typing that) memers, they can grow into decent memers.

I figure if I don't care for a meme, or if it's been overdone or isn't original then I just don't upvote it. I understand that many new memes are dumb as hell, but it's been that way all the time I've been on here. Nothing new, but many people are treating as if it is, and saying how they may leave the site because of it, or spend more time on dreary little places like Reddit because they have more authority there. My whine is that the whiners seem to have assumed they own the flip and when they see others get front pages with less-than-stellar memes they feel as if 'their' imgflip has left them. I'm just saying either help them - like you said - or maybe so-and-so ought to bugger off to a chat room where they'll get more attention (at the cost of their intellect and curiosity).

Dash Hopes and Socrates offered me some unsolicited advice. I was grateful. But there are a lot of things that I had to figure out on my own. I made these instructional memes:
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If only I had those when I started myself. :) Yeah, good job, and keep it up. I've just come to the realization that it makes more sense to me to improve the content of the flip by helping people rather than by dumping on them.

KenJ you posted this on my "Roseanne Liberal Double Standards" meme:

I'm sorry james3v6; as much as I would like to respect your religious beliefs, nothing here even has the faint gloss of the teachings of Jesus. I would suggest you examine your life and values before you meet your creator. I'm afraid in your case you will meet a maker you were completely mistaken about.

I am replying here because of rabid antitheists like Octavia_Melody.
I appreciate you wanting to respect my religious beliefs. People like OM, Marian V. Waffle, and Jackhen Off do not. They use vulgarity, profanity, and blasphemy to get a reaction out of me when they can't troll using wit. Either their ideas are so bad or they get so triggered that all they can do is curse and blaspheme. I don't want to give them an actual reasoned response because they won't accept it anyway.

The reason I use james3v6 as my screen name is to 1. allow people to know I am a believer 2. remind myself that while I may be anonymous to the other people online I am not anonymous to God.

That is why I don't use profanity and vulgarity to troll people. I don't use communication like that because I know that I will have to give an account of every "idle word spoken." I'm already going to have to give account for a lot of idle talk on the internet without adding the sins of vulgarity and "crude jesting" (dirty jokes.)

There is noting in Scripture that forbids me from going online to troll sensitive liberals, Leftists, and unbelievers for fun. That is all I am doing with a Donald Trump/Roseanne meme. If you think that I am defending DT, you don't know what I say and have said about DT irl. He is a w**remonger and adulterer. He has lived in that for years. I am under no impressions that he is any kind of a Christian regardless of what he says. He has used the facade of religiosity to pull the wool over the eyes of many sincere Christians. But he is excellent bait to troll for Leftists and to point out their double standards.

When people say I'm not acting "very Christlike" or I'm not reflecting the teachings of Jesus, I wonder "which" Jesus they are referring to. I'm guessing it is the culturally acceptable "lowly Jesus, meek and mild, who says, "I really want you to love me, I've done so much for you, I'd never judge you, I'd never hurt you, you're breaking my heart." The culturally acceptable Jesus is not the Jesus I want to represent.

Alright, james3v6, please accept my apology for coming off too strident. I believe you are secure and honest in your beliefs. After I left the original message I felt that it was too much. I do believe all that I said that indicated that I had little belief that conservative Christians were really following the teachings of Jesus, but in your case I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

I grew up in the church, and while I no longer am a believer, the teachings of Jesus are what led me to embrace liberal values as the true way to co-exist with my fellow humans. I cannot accept conservative values as they are a hinderance to the creative abilities of humankind. And a threat to freedom to boot. You may troll liberals for fun, but we view the world as a place of few constraints and want the greatest number of people to enjoy their liberties.

Octavia is a good friend. He is as passionate in his beliefs as you are in yours. Just because he is an atheist doesn't mean that he is on the 'wrong' side. If you troll him then he will respond. Because he is intelligent and has as much of a right to free speech as you.

Your 'culturally acceptable' Jesus is the Jesus of the New Testament. The Jesus of conservative values is the Jesus interpreted through the Old Testament. One emphasizes love, acceptance, and the grace of God; the other the judgment of an angry God and the superiority of the 'chosen people'. Jesus himself said he would bring radical change. Just remember, when arguing with those who you disagree with, about the parable of the adulteress Jesus saved from stoning,

There is now a how_2_imgflip stream. Maybe you would like to post these in it for reference? imgflip.com/m/How_2_Imgflip

I'll try it when I get home later tonight. I have not tried to post in any stream other than fun, politics, and reposts. I don't see an option for posting in other streams.
Do I have to follow a stream to post there? If so, I will follow "how 2" and repost these and some others I have made since then.

You have to first follow the stream you want to post in, then when you go to submit a meme you created it gives the option in the big pink box. Just click "fun" as that is the default, and a drop down with all of your followed streams shall appear.

I love this image. I'm going to have to keep it in my files. The expression on Pinkie Pie's face of suppressed laughter is priceless. :)

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Looks like you are. ;)

Looks like Vinyl Scratch is surprised at all the grabbing. :)

But I do agree that's it's tiring to see the pubg and fortnite memes over and over, or calling someone gay over and over. I just keep scrolling though. I don't get upset by them. But it does make the "gems" stand out, so that I stop and comment. Those that are truly funny/silly or look like there was care/effort/thought put into it get my votes and comments. :-)

I barely know what 'fortnite' means and I first saw a 'pubg' mention yesterday, and the homophobia is just bullsh!t, but yeah, if they ain't my kinda thing then I just pass over them. If a bunch of teen gamers want to make memes only other teen gamers understand, and other teen gamers upvote them, then more power to them. I'll just hang with the old folks and their corny jokes. It's just when top users start crying about people other than those they are used to joshing with start making the front pages then it all seems as if it's boozy uncle Joe complaining about the d@mn kids and their d@mn ways. I may be a 'top user' by points, and a grizzled vet, but I'd like to think I'd like to be helped if I was in the position the new users are, and not bitterly complained about as if I were some immigrant taking all the 'good' jobs. Fresh blood = fresh character on imgflip, but apparently it also = grumpy old farts. ;P

Well I'm glad you were open to the newcomers, because I was one of them. :-) You and JBmemegeek were the first ones to really have conversations with me at the beginning and encourage me. Then Phantasmemegoric, who became my "bestie" because we had so many of the same movies that both of us just LOVED and loved to meme about. Dash, of course, was extremely helpful in explaining things, and then I got a TON more new friends (too many to name) after that who also inspired me and continue to inspire me. I hope to do the same for the next set of newcomers. :-)

:-)

Despite my disdain for overused cliches, the idea of 'passing it on' is essentially what I'm getting at here. I've been here about 2-1/2 years, and despite being dispirited by some of the content of newer users sometimes, I figure the obnoxious ones will fall by the wayside and the best will rise. Removing the chaff from the grain (another cliche!). But new users should be encouraged, not shoved out of the way by those who should be guiding. It's why I tell you to wait out the trolls. Eventually you'll get far enough up the leaderboard and they'll just stop hassling you. For the most part. Thanks for your nice comments; I think I'll spend the rest of the day - once I get through my notifications - looking through stuff by newer users. :)

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You're a good help to memers, KenJ. We thank you. :-)

Yer welcome. I just try to treat other users like I'd like to be treated. And save my a$$holery for my political memes. :D

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