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Imgur's community was in revolt

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163 points miiiiiike | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 13:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.553s | source
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egypturnash ◴[02 Sep 25 14:56 UTC] No.45103936[source]▶
This story is five days old and the revolt appears to be over. I don't see a single middle finger on Imgur's front page.
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1. delecti ◴[02 Sep 25 15:32 UTC] No.45104413[source]▶
It also shifted a bunch over the course of the protests. After the middle fingers, they moved to porn (mass posting and upvoting clear TOS violations), and then just blackout posts (posting and upvoting solid black images). Somewhere in there was also posts of deliberately large images and videos to overload the servers.

I think at this point it has all but died down, but there still seems to be a bit of extra-racy content (which could also just be due to the new AI moderation being worse), and more large files (generally videos with "intergalactic quality" in the title).

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2. skeezyboy ◴[02 Sep 25 16:24 UTC] No.45105212[source]▶
they should do what reddit users did and claim that by reposting shit they find online, that they are "creating content" and should be "compensated". laughable