Imgur Storytime: Leaving A Literal Leftist Cult

So back in May of 2020 as things were heating up towards the tail end of the Presidential election, I was posting lots of rage filled and hateful comments and post against anyone and everyone that dared support Donald Trump. I hated Trump for lots of reasons even before the election. Mainly because I believed then and still believe now that he a sexist, bigoted, racist bully. So, because of my strong stance against Trump and the MAGA Cult and my visibility on Imgur I was recruited, yes recruited to an Imgur Leftist community on Discord. As you can see in the Imgur Chat boxes, of which I left out my and the recruiters' usernames for privacy they were gathering as many Imgur users as possible into this Liberal/Leftist only Discord group with the sole purpose of essentially taking over Imgur for the Democratic/Left Leaning/Liberal ideology and boy was I all for it.

I did join up their little army and I participated in a community that at one point had about 50-60 (last I was a part of it) very active members that would browse User sub for anything at all they didn't agree with, share on the Discord so they can all attack in downvoting so posts don't get traction and see the front page and they would leave their hate comments, baiting OP's into saying something they could use to submit as going against the Imgur community guidelines to get anyone they didn't agree with banned. And boy did this stuff work. I mean, I alone must have gotten at least 20-30 user accounts banned and I know that with this Discord community they would get at least a few a day banned, and nothing even related to Trump/Conservatives/Republicans even sees the light of day on Imgur today, so they are very active still today and very affective.

I enjoyed being part of this Discord because I too wanted Trump gone and the Democrat's back in power. But I promised myself that I would stop the nonsense after the election if Trump lost and he did. Ha-Zah! But I didn't, I was as hateful and vengeful as ever because I was lead believe the idea that Trump is still a treat, so we essentially still needed to be jerks to anyone who agrees with Trump on Imgur. But after a while I grew tired of it. I felt I and this Discord community were becoming just as bad as the MAGA community, so I left. Wish I would have taken some screenshots while I was part of it for more evidence, but I never thought they would turn against me. But that's exactly what they did. I left a single comment, that they didn't like. A single comment that went against their leftist ideology. (I'm not a Dem/Repub/or anything) This single comment led them to then gang up against me, like they do so many others and now even with all my anti-Trump posts, I am the enemy. They downvoted all my comments and posts to hell and even worked together to get my account banned which Imgur seemed happy to do very quickly. Now I knew what it felt like to experience the hateful vitriol of this so-called liberal community that acted like it cared so much about America. And I'm just so over it. I'm done. I'm done with the hate, I'm done with the harassment, I'm done with the abuse. I've truly seen and experienced now why the divide is so great in this country. We are at each other's throats, playing this game and its disgusting. All while Imgur seems to stand by and let it happen. Because if you really pay attention to the comments of those that attack anyone on the right, they sure don't comply with Imgur' s community guidelines. Yell, I think that's enough story. I'm sure this will get downvoted to hell and I'll get called a liar, MAGAet, Incel, faker, etc. And they'll work to get this off imgur and yes, new account banned. Maybe they'll even try to put my original account on blast, which will only prove my point of the existence of the Leftist Discord that they unironically titled "Deep State". I still like Imgur and want to be a part of the community, but down with being a part of the political side and hate seeing that there is so much hate being spread within it.

This review is intended more to review the community and hateful cult politics.The site sort of works to upload images, but as per reviews, it's not even working for many cases.

As one who is interested in history, psychology, politics, and these general fields together, I've found myself censored multiple times on this website (including tumblr and reddit, which are only slightly better but enforce the same 'shadow censorship).

Once you reach some amount of negative points, usually just -1 votes, your comment is hidden, placed in a "bad posts only" queue, a place where uneducated trolls and bots will go to claim the reality you mentioned is 'wrong', you are 'bad for posting about it', and tons of insults too. Usually if you post some legitimate fact about "how bad someone some leftist policy did because in history" using scientific backing, and they happen to be a democrap for example, you'll basically instantly get placed into the moderation queue where you'll then be shadow banned instantly for 'breaking the rules'. In this way "they", the big dictators, the mentally ill, and so on, get to control what is displayed, even in the chance that "it's only the way that the [flawed] system was designed"

This creates the fake idea that they are making a 'popularity-based' self-regulated system. In reality, they're actually just censoring real views they claim do not exist, enforcing a community full of bigots, college kids in debt, racists, socialist and fascism lovers, and so on that upon taking up the bulk of voting power, box every other viewpoint or superior efficiency out of their small world. This basically enforces a system where flawed ideology of the users completely takes over everything, and the idea of a democratic, free speech system where 'anyone can comment', 'your view will be tolerated and looked at', is not enforced.

The average 'real person' that is not a bot will claim to be excessively smarter, refute all logic, and entice you to "debate" to prove how better you are (usually leading to an instant ban) in textboxes that only have 100 characters minimum (designed for pea-brains to insult or make 1-sentence commentary only).

Based on how the system works, the dumbest people who conform to the strange leftist policies are given medals and fake ideas of being influential for doing things like praising Obama and insulting/reporting criticism of him.

"fake" ideas and weird politics and memes that have no place for normal people in society are propped up as "highly popular", having to do with vaccines (yes no one cares), politics (obama good black man, white man always bad, orange man bad), general $#*!ation and racism enforced by 'tribal' style group enforcement.

A lot of the memes there are basically really bad, except maybe 1 in 100. It's just an perfect example how of the leftwing of politics functions. One of those places where the delusional ones have hidden themselves away in order to claim they are "smart and popular" when in a real neutral zone they are generally "vastly underperforming" in their ideas and logic.

Example:
>someone posts picture about how some kid missed an exam 'in a college'
>every single post is just "wowww::: :)! 1 he's deaddd woww!", almost like some tribally enforced $#*!ation
>i post something like "It's just a college. Email the professor, say 'I couldn't make the finals', you'll be able to take it in private the next day"
> first reply "Wow guys I found the incel 4channer!" +10 - extremely popular response
> *is actually a programmer who has his own convertible and was at the beach at the time* what.

I just envision these people are like, basically the gnomes, trolls, and fags who cried and acted like the world was going to end after the 2016 elections, and now live in their mom's basement, enforcing their weird memes, stereotypes, and fake socialist (USSR style) censorship on certain websites. They all think Russia is their enemy because the Clintons told them it how to act over CNN, ABC, NBC, and other fascist programming that has educated them since birth.

Imgur just happens to be one where I've noticed the trend of idiocy.

One pro is that it lets you host images. One con is popular or neutral stuff is usually falsely downvoted and perceived as 'not popular' due to the bad community members.

There's much better image sites.

The fact there's so many bad reviews about this is hilarious and essentially confirms the bias.

About the time I found the meme about having sex with your daughter... I was done.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcToGi7QGOn5T973pVladVfSc9IuweBHbfeYCWGCMmA9m7SX__zk

The best free image hosting service on the net

Imgur is pronounced "imager" or, as the site helpfully explains, "image - er". So, nothing like Flickr, then. But very much web 2.0 all the same. So, that's the daft name out of the way, what's the rest of it like?

The basic concept is nothing new. It's a simple photo sharing site which accepts your images in unlimited numbers and stores them in albums, and allows you to pass the address links on to your friends and family. It also encourages you to post on social services such as Reddit and Stumble Upon, Twitter and of course Facebook.

Additionally it provides extra tools in the form of stand-alone apps and services and browser plugins, so that you can add pictures as you find them on the web, and copy them from other social sites and blogs, and upload them direct from your screen with a simple right-click.

The interface is black and the controls are unintrusive, perhaps too much so. Initially I spent a long time looking for the "delete" option only to find a tiny trash bin icon that I'd previously missed, and it's not immediately clear whether "gallery" refers to your personal gallery or the site gallery, or whether "tools" refers to your own tools or the external tools. It's not hard to figure out, but it's not entirely intuitive the first time around either.

Functionally it's simple. There are many ways to upload, and storing images in albums is just a matter of selection and of naming the albums. Each picture is offered to you with a selection of links all ready for use in email, or in web pages, or forums and blogs. Buttons for the social sites are provided.

On uploading you may choose to re-size your original images to fit a range of standard screen sizes, and the site automatically reduces the file size of overly large files for you rather than rejecting them. At this stage, you can find that little icon and delete an image too. Beware, though, because once an image is accepted and filed, you can't delete it yourself but have to send a request for the site to do so and explain why. So if you aren't sure, don't, and make sure that you become sure before you move off the Upload screen and your last chance at self-deletion. In a way it's not really too important, since uploads are infinite anyway and mistakes may be kept private.

The gimmick is this: make a photo public and post it everywhere you can, and if it becomes popular enough it makes the site's Gallery and front page and the whole world, or at least that part which is aware of the site, will see it. This is optional, as you may choose to keep a photo private and only share the link with friends, instead, but the temptation to get an image that goes viral is pretty strong, even if you do have to "borrow" it from elsewhere.

All uploads are anonymous, and the site collects no personal data other than your IP address. You choose whether to make it apparent that it's your image or not, when you post it elsewhere or tell your friends. There's no nod to copyrights as far as I saw, so you can take whatever you like from anywhere on the web and copy it here.

The basic account is free and no registration is needed; a registration gets you the chance to add captions and do some other more advanced stuff, and there's a $24 per year Pro account that you'll need to read about, to see if that's more suited to your needs. The basic account will satisfy many, though, and it's a simple way to upload images for free and remain anonymous.

I knocked a couple of points off for the slightly baffling interface and the encouragement to copy other people's work, but added one back because it let me upload one of my own in the hopes that virality, if not virility, will at last be mine.

http://i.imgur.com/z1g3z.jpg if you're interested.