This happens every time I submit a meme to politics

chances are they decided to silently not feature it

No reason for them not to feature it unless it broke tos

idk. i didnt see the meme. sometimes they dont feature it because it doesnt fit the stream and has nothing to do with (Politics, in this case)

It fit, and it was eventually approved (after 10 hours).

wow

This is a tactic used to reduce the reach of a meme. The longer it waits, the further down the "New" list it appears.

When my meme was finally featured (10 hours after submission), it appeared on page 3 when sorted by "New".

why do they do that? "new" should be based off of how recently it was submitted, not how recently it was made.

I think it should be based on how recently it was approved

right that's what I meant

It is based on how recently it was approved.

nope

Yep.

Look at MSMG.

msmg has tons of mods, memes are approved usually the same minute they're submitted.

Allow me to explain why this is.

The main streams are set to have an AI bot approve images automatically, Andrew has told me the goal of Imgflip is to be autonomous.

If the bot detects an NSFW image, it forwards it to the mods for manual approvals.

There was nothing NSFW about it. In fact, several of the 30 memes submitted after, but approved before mine had the NSFW flag.