Imgur has a rating of 1.8 stars from 80 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Imgur most frequently mention front page, left wing, and toxic community problems. Imgur ranks 97th among Photo Sharing sites.
When photobucket decided to take the whole internet hostage, ruining forum content, etc. with no warning, the internet needed to look elsewhere (seriously, who would pay $399/year?). Where did the internet go? Imgur. Thank you for the great service you provide. We really do appreciate it! Great site, works better than photobucket ever did and it's free!
Imgur does not even pretend anymore, at this point, to be unbiased or considerate of any even keeled or respectful perspectives. The bias is extremely apparent. In an age of extreme partisanship in all corners of the Internet, Imgur manages to do the impossible: it stands out. There really isn't another site that reaches this levels of blatant disregard for objectivity that the platform does. My words really don't matter, though: just look for yourself. Provoking anger, either amongst its supporters or detractors, seems to be the only goal. I suppose, somehow, that this emotional surge is supposed to be positive in the service of some greater cause, but a permanently angry and incensed population seems to be the opposite of helpful to me in attempting to solve the issues in the world, no matter what your perspective is. Imgur is what it tries so hard to tell you that it isn't: an angry, fuming monster spewing rage at the invisible "enemies" it claims to be fighting.
Look I am not very much a political man and when I am I am civil about it. I used to frequent this site on a daily basis but the political commentary infecting every single feed with comments is offputting in every regard, race and justification for violence against political opponents (generally republicans and right wingers here) is used in most single front page posting with top comments regularly calling for outright violence. I just wanted to see animal pictures and the occasional info graphics. Here is a quick example from my experience today (7 March, 2022), for reference I don't give crap about some truck convoy to DC but when I see people posting and upvoting comments on how an A-10, a close air support assault aircraft, should be used on these truckers on the road (thus implying using these aircraft to brutally murder truckers and destroy their vehicles), I find this rhetoric deeply disturbing. I will not be visiting this site again and I hope the government regulates and shuts down this cesspool of lunacy and disinformation.
Tip for consumers:
Find another site.
Been a member for 12 years. Seen it go from any other image sharing site where mostly memes were posted to an absolutely unhinged hateful echochamber with honestly kinda dangerous fringe elements that go unmoderated. The site has a very obvious liberal bias, which in itself isnt that big of a thing, nowdays there are barely any site that isnt biased, but the extent is insane. I wont make a list of the usual tropes, rather what made me leave the site for good: clear support of terrorism and genocide. Since the israel-gaza conflict multiple posts popped up praising the houthis, and were actually upvoted to frontpage. Comments claiming the hamas attack on oct 7 was justified. Criticizing hamas gets you being piled on, and being called a bloodthirsty genocidal monster (the irony). Suggesting that disenfranchising or EUTHANIZING trump cultists are "good options". These are unmoderated, upvoted posts/comments. Im a lefty/liberal person, but imgur is NOT that, its something that should be monitored by law enforcement.
Advertisers should really spend an hour or two looking at posts and comments unfiltered and ask themselves if they want this platform to be their billboard. Consumers/users (even those who are more aligned with liberals) should avoid it, the couple of cute animal posts does not worth it in the sea of unhinged hate.
Just another cheesy ad platform with schills running phoney accounts. If you download any of the utilities you will get a bunch of PUP malware that is very hard to remove.
This site is full of hatefull lefties.
If you voice any opinion other than the
Anti trump/white/right/police/gun you are going to be called names, made cun of you, sometimes they will wish you a painfull death.
This site is good only as a free hosting site.
The users are snoflakes that represent the,, trophy or taking part in" world view and you can see it when they praise one another on their poor results in atempting cosplay/diy/cooking
Avoid interaction, if You dont want your kids to growup to be lusterka and leftwing crybabies... than ban them from using this hole full of failure and atempism.
Toxic community through and through. If you have a different opinion on anything you are chastised, downvoted met with replies of childish insults. Reading through it's just one giant circle jerk of people patting themselves on the back or agreeing with each other often on political posts which they have a minor understanding of with the majority being non-Americans posting about American politics. And there's the creepy posts of females and mass perversion while the site claims to be safe. This sites community is nothing more than Amoral fascists acting like high moral douche bags masquerading from post to post in self righteousness while being stuck in a loop of nothing but crappy posts about politics, cats and puppies and the occasional completely fabricated sob story. Stay away from this site at all costs, if you want a toxic community just use 4chan but using either is saying a lot about your mental health. There was once positivitiy and fun on imgur it has long since turned into a cesspit. If you do use imgur, just use it for storage of photos and videos and stay away from the community.
Good looking, simple, and easy to use. I use it a lot. Great for screen shot and has a lot of pictures to look at if you're bored. Awesome in general :D
This is a great site to post pictures to share with friends and family. You can just send them a link. I like my account to be private, but you can also make it public to share with the world.
The front page of Imgur is obnoxiously left wing but with absolutely nothing of substance to say about politics. This is basically where 12 year olds who think they are enlightened socialists go when they get banned on Reddit and Twitter because even people who agreed with them politically couldn't stand them. Mods are also these 12 year olds so if you post anything even remotely against the opinion of these children you will get downvoted and reported till your account is banned. However, you will get tons of upvotes if you post anything with a left-wing bent. Literally, like you can post something pro-pedo and it will get upvoted if its attacking a right winger who said something negative about pedos.
Imgur is not funny anymore
Imgur isn't fun anymore
Imgur isn't entertaining anymore
Its MEAN, its Hateful, its tedious.
It DETROYS any Positive Energy that Visitors might want to share.
The witty sarcasm has disintegrated into shards of cynicism – endlessly regurgitated by the Upvote Whores whose sum-total Contribution-to-Society can only be expressed in Internet Points.
It's like having a cancer tumor that doesn't hurt; it just gets worse every day – and uglier
Actually, its more like Jeff Goldblum's character in "The Fly" – and should probably meet a similar end.
The service is a nice alternative to photobucket. But the community is plagued with closed minded trolls. I never got involved with it but I have literally seen entire threads dedicated to ridiculing a person with Autism just because they are different, and that person wasn't around to defend themselves. The thing was not one person stepped in to defend that person and the post went on about 8 pages and you can actually still reply to it now despite it being around for a couple of years now. Having friends with autism (and even being on the higher functioning end myself), that really makes me sad to see that their community staff allows that to go on for so long.
That's just one example of it being extremely toxic. Most of social media is toxic but Imgur can be next-level toxic. If you want to use it just for a photobucket alternative, or to upload something like a screenshot just so you can have a link to post on your favorite forums, make sure you change your settings to "unlisted" otherwise people will not understand what you're posting there for. Because technically speaking, it's like reddit except just for pictures.
Be advised of the toxicity of that community though. If you want a friendly social interaction, go elsewhere.
Dreadful, toxic community. I remember way back in the day when the dude on Reddit made the site. I was an early adopter, but then life happened, and I kind of fell out, aside from when I needed a link to upload a pic. I recently downloaded the app, and there's a "community" aspect. These people are some of the most vile, ideologically possessed people, and it's hard to believe it's all organic. Administered content or not, they are some of the most hateful people you'll come across online, and they're all extremely liberal/left wing - not that this is inherently a bad thing, but their polemic political views are the source hate. If you aren't lock-step in all their rigid, administered beliefs, they will *hate* you. Avoid this site, and just hope someone else comes up with a simple image uploader soon. Also, the "feed" function is garbage, and way too one-sided politically to be interesting. They only post things that reinforce their views, and that show how much they hate the people they've been told are their enemies. The longer you spend on Imgur, the worse a human you will become.
Can't have your own opinion... They Will censor what they don't agree with... The users like a herd will downvote everything they don't like, very biased political correct place...
Tip for consumers:
Reddit is better.
Has lots of reaaly interesting images and a very user-friendly interface as for me. However some really decent works are sometimes not getting the appreciation they have to get, dunno why..
Found Imgur many years ago when I was going through a bad time and needed a diversion. Of course it had some American political sh*t posts back then, but they were few and easy to ignore. It also many interesting and funny posts and overall a great place to interact. Not anymore. After almost 4 years, 3.7 million 'reputation' points, and more trophies than a third world dictator has medals, I deleted my account yesterday. Mob mentality rules and is backed by the Mods. If one Doesn't hate Trump, think you should stay in your basement for the rest of your life because of Covid and love BLM, your dissenting comment and post will be dog piled to oblivion and usually flagged by a moderator as a strike against your account because "It's hate speech" or "Promotes harm". I used to be able to appeal via DM to Sarah, MartynMage etc. and have it over ruled. Last few months I would just receive a standard reply to contact support, which never overturns an unfair moderation. It was going downhill like this for quite awhile but really went to crap and became a social justice, full of trolls haven, ever since Coil invested $20 million into it last August and changed the TOS once again, making it so vague that anything that is not a popular opinion is removed for violating it. Side note: Every Christmas they have a secret Santa. Posts of awesome gifts flood the front page. In reality most people get nothing because most people sign up just to get something with no intention of giving back. From a unique and somewhat supportive community it has spiraled into an echo chamber of the SJW PC insane.
You'd think they'd just behave like a normal image hosting site like photobucket; but look at their homepage, and apparently also their moderation, and you'll see it's basically a circle jerk for communists, pinkos, useful idiots, and other regressive "progressive" types. I could elaborate and explain, but you'll see all the typical dishonest "political" posts as you see everywhere else, only on imgur it's always one-sided and the other sides get banned for "violating community guidelines" or some hypocritical bull$#*! while other posts are full of blatant overt lies (or as political "activists" call it today, "misinformation" and "disinformation") and even libel and slander.
And apparently, Imgur also hosts child pornography and this apparently is an issue they've had for years too. You have to wonder how they're still in business when so many other image hosters went under despite never doing $#*! like this to drive away users or hosting as much illegal content. Maybe they've received external funding to promote communist rhetoric on their site, but that's just speculation (I haven't looked at their investors or anything).
And it's pretty funny how I have to agree that this review is truthful before post this as well, you obviously don't have to do that for image uploads to imgur.
Any comment that doesn't go with the Far-Left narrative:
1. Trump sucks
2. Republicans suck
3. Conservatives suck
4. Wealthy people suck
5. Christians suck
6. Non LQTBQ people suck
Your uploaded images will be downvoted and eventually you will be reported and muted. Even though you didn't violate any rules on the site, the mob has spoken and the mods are on their side. I conducted an experiment and uploaded an image of AOC and how awesome she was, I get about 1400 pts. Two days later. I uploaded an image of a goup of black people who gang raped and murdered a white girl, negative 20 pts. So called Imugrians will also proceed to go into your profile and downvote each of your uploads and comments because they think it's worse than death. It's quite the opposite. The community is toxic and the far-left losers IRL ruined the site.
Most of the people who harass you are neckbeard virgins.
This is the best site ever and you can even buy dope t-shirts with the name on it, please send money to their headquarters.
Used to be a good fun site but they cater too much to ad revenue, new policies, and other things which made it great
They delete posts without giving a reason. This tells me that they're not welcoming floks and using this is a waste of time.
The lefties took over years ago, and it's just nothing but propaganda pumping out about how evil everyone slightly less extreme are.
Biased. Likely receiving payment for slander, Hides unpopular comments. Inc yours. Find another site.
This is a good place to upload pics fast if you want to share them, but their homepage is really random, not necessarily bad, but it can get odd.
This place worships socialism - utterly worships at its altar. Here's the secret to getting to the vaunted "Front Page" - post anything:
Pro Socialism, Pro Antifa, Pro Biden, Pro Leftist, Pro Canada, Pro Trudeau, Pro Europe, Anti Police
Anti Christian / Religion, Anti Right / Republican, Anti America, Anti Trump, ACAB...
The blinding irony of a user-base that decries injustice, yet bullies and threatens anyone else who don't fit their ideologies is so funny that it's sad.
There is a secret Discord server which is invite-only by which an elite handful of people coordinate the suppression the free speech of differing thoughts and opinions by downvoting them into oblivion in order to ensure they don't reach any visibility. What's more disturbing is that Imgur, the company, does nothing to prevent it, because why would they? It's just an accurate reflection of their own ideologies - so I guess it makes sense in the end.
I once posted a meme which said, "Hard to Swallow Pills: You Choose to be Offended".
The Tsunami of hate, toxicity, venom, and outcry was overwhelming. Out of curiosity I looked through the profiles of the most venomous users... without fail, every single one of them were lonely, bitter, out-of-work, no-life-having, blame-gaming, finger-point, take-no-responsibility for their $#*!ty lives, kinds of people. Every one of them made an average of 100 replies to other people's posts in a single day. They obviously don't work, and if they do, they should be fired for not doing it by spending their entire days on their $#*! site.
It truly is a horrible, HORRIBLE website that used to be really cool.
There are some who posts funny pets memes along with a smattering of wholesome things, but they're drowned out by the circle-jerk of users who ejaculate their echoing-ideology into each other's mouths all day long.
0 out of 5 stars - go elsewhere, for your own health and well-being, go elsewhere.
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