Original meme by ghostofchurch

Here is a link to the original meme which helped me a lot when I first started: imgflip.com/i/1bc21u. I’m reposting this because the comment section is very cluttered now. PLEASE UPVOTE THIS COMMENT SO THAT IT WILL STAY AT THE TOP OF THE THREAD WHICH WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR EVERYONE TO FIND. :-)

The number one tip to imgflip is to have fun. If you're only here for points and to make the front page, you likely won't succeed at either.

1. The biggest tip is to become an active part of the community. Post on other member's memes and reply to people who reply to your memes.
2. Spelling is important, but even more important is grammar. Memes can make the front page with minor spelling mistakes, but grammar mistakes are much harder to overcome and often make your meme confusing. Take time to proofread your submissions just like it was a school assignment!
3. If you submit a meme on an established template at least 15 minutes before the hour, it'll likely post the upcoming hour.
4.Custom templates only get approved several times a day, and it's really a guessing game when those times will be. It's very hard to know when the best time of day to submit a meme is. Custom templates also seem to have fewer approval times on the weekends.
5. Ever heard of a Page 9 Party? Every Monday at 9 p.m. EST, we head over to Page 9 of the newest pages and upvote all the memes there and comment on them all as well. We do this to help get newer or lesser known members more visibility by giving them a big boost. Many weeks multiple memes that were featured during a page 9 party end up on the front page. It's also a good way to earn points and get known by other established memers. UPDATE: This is something the established memers once did, and I continue to do but not just on Mondays.
6. Using the right picture and word choice count. The more concise you can make your text, I feel the better it will do.
7. If you put too much text in your meme, and it's really tiny when people scroll through the newest or hot pages, they very well may just scroll past your meme with tiny text.
8. Sarcasm does not translate well to the written word. Try to avoid it unless it's a template known for sarcastic remarks.
9. Did you know can use custom colors in your fonts? Google "Custom HTML Color Codes" and you'll find sites that give you the code to paste into the box. Sometimes you want a dark green font, not that default neon green one!

10. You can add custom tags to your memes to make it easier for others to find.
11. Don't be afraid to comment on leaderboard members memes, we don't bite. We're memers just like you.
12. There is NO logic for what will make the front page. Any top user will tell you memes they thought would make it barely got 5 upvotes.
13. When going through a meme for comments, the original poster will have their name colored in green, this makes it easier to find their specific replies in their memes.
14. I've seen this question asked: "When do your meme submissions for the day get reset?" You currently get your fresh set of submissions at midnight Pacific time, so 3 a.m. Eastern. Sorry international folks, you'll have to do the time conversion yourself and don't forget to look up how the U.S. daylight saving time might be different from your time zone when it's in effect.
15. After a painful realization, the maximum number of custom templates that load into your "My Templates" tab is 200.
16. Expect to be criticized over typos and making memes that don’t make much sense at Every. Single. Corner. Trolls here are abundant, some smarter than others, so be on the lookout for any trolls. If a troll does show up, you have two options: Ignore it, or roast him into oblivion.

17. Use the more options button. It lets you add additional text boxes which are extremely useful and serve multiple purposes. You can change the font, but in my opinion in most cases for most memes the default Impact font is perfect. You can change the font size. You can toggle off font shadow, ALL CAPS, and if you're on mobile this is where you can enable drag/drop and resize which is always available on desktop. You can also use original resolution of a template image, but in my opinion bigger pictures can lead to users skipping over if you can't read everything at one time.
18. As mentioned, adding text boxes and using additional text boxes can be impactful. Did the lowercase "imgflip" in my meme's main picture catch your eye? To do that I used two different boxes. Manually typed everything in all caps except "img" and used a second text box to make font red for "flip".
19. I can't help you with Custom Templates that you'll use only once, those are always going to be a gamble as to when they'll actually feature. Feature times seem to depend on what imgflip mod is working at the time. However, IF YOU'RE GOING TO USE A CUSTOM TEMPLATE MORE THAN ONCE, there's a great way to guarantee that AFTER YOUR FIRST SUBMISSION, your future submissions with the template will post within 2 hours.

If you save an image to the public directory (so that anyone can use it, and then it shows up in your "My Templates" tab), and then use that image in a submission initially, then from then on out it doesn't get treated like a custom submission. Once it's been approved and featured once, it's what I consider an "established template" and established templates get featured just as quickly as the popular templates.

The same works for when you're searching the img template database. When you click on the template you can figure out if it will post right away, or be treated like a custom submission based on if it has any featured memes tied to it. An example of this (as of 11/13/16) is "sniper dog." Right now there's 3 "sniper dog" templates out there, and two of them don't have any features. These would be treated as custom templates. If you find the 1 that has my "Grumpy Cat Got You Down?" caption, that would get posted right away. LONG STORY SHORT, if you see multiple versions of the image you want to use, use the one that already has been featured!

I'll have to read all these awesome tips when I can focus better! Thanks so much!

Lol well the information definitely helped when I was first getting started, but Imgflip’s environment seems to be ever-changing. I don’t necessarily agree with how to handle trolls. I just ignore them, but to each his own. :-)

No, it's all good advice. I'm just teasing. Maybe add that one can join other streams so they aren't limited to a few subs a day. I see that all the time.

Oh that’s a good one too. I copied mostly verbatim and took out stuff that didn’t apply anymore. It’d be great if Imgflip actually had a page with all this info so that they can add and edit as needed from feedback. I’m surprised they don’t have one.

Have you gone to AndrewFinlayson?

I did mention it back when they were setting up the different streams and trying to give guidance for Mods. I had said it would be good to have a page for Mods and a page for new users. I've heard people saying we've needed it for longer than that though.

Snitches get stitches.

I love that idea, we should do it again!

yes page nine party sounds good

me new

Me old. ?

new, or 'new' *wink*?

cool

Hey, giveuahint! I didn’t know that you were #13 on top users! Wow! I was looking at top 2018 yesterday and saw the biggest meme I’ve ever seen!

Hi there. I do remember you commenting on that meme yesterday. Thanks for taking a peek at my memes. Much appreciated. :-)