Either “The Left Can’t Meme!” — or there’s a hard-Right political bias among long-term Imgflippers. I wonder which one it is?

... Well, you have one person upvoting liberal comments/memes.

One reason why PoliticsTOO is important — it’s the hub of the liberal community on Imgflip. If it weren’t for this place then liberals would have no way to really congregate, because the politics main stream is either:

1. Hard-right biased (when sorted by “Hot”);
2. A chaotic mess full of all sorts of crap, Minecraft memes and other filler (when sorted by “New”).

You can try to find liberal memes on “politics,” but it’s not efficient. Many liberals have given up trying to post there, don’t really check it, and therefore aren’t finding and upvoting each others’ content, either.

PoliticsTOO is the answer to that. Our stream is fundamentally, simply about the organization of related content — like most streams on Imgflip are (unless their posting rules are literally “anything goes.”)

Plus, if you enter the Politics board, you have to decontaminate when you leave.
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Yeah, I picked up on all that... I'm newish around here, but I'm a quick study.

I don't see too many other regular liberal posters, but if it's funny/makes sense, I upvote them. I see a *lot* of your posts, seeing as I'm subscribed to many of the streams you are. It's too bad you don't see who is upvoting and who isn't...

A quick study! We love those!

I bet you do. Cuz I post like a fiend. Lol. Big reason I have a binary icon — but, I’m also an actually good memer! I swear! ;)

Not that Imgflip points really matter — they’re just for fun, but they are also the best/only “objective” metric I can think of for measuring a loaded question like which political tribe can meme better.

But a moment’s reflection is all it takes to realize that deck is stacked. If there are more right-wing users on Imgflip (and there are, it seems), then they’ll naturally gain points at a higher rate.

I once ran a social experiment on the politics stream where I posted the most asinine, brain-dead and poorly formatted memes I could stomach making, but gave them a right-wing political bias. Those memes reliably collected at least twice the upvotes as my well-constructed & logical liberal memes, sometimes more.

I more recently tweaked the experiment by posting actually decent, well-formatted and coherent right-wing memes to politics stream and did even better. Hit front page a few times. Till that experiment played out when I gave myself away/Righties figured out who I was, and I guess probably told each other to boycott me. Lol

Don't forget the Russians. Lots of Russians.

Mhm