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Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?
by robertoandred 5y ago
Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?
- corobo 5y agoThe exact opposite personality type to people that browse HN I'd wager
- JadeNB 5y agoI, and apparently Swizec (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676558), do both, and I doubt we're the only ones.
- everdrive 5y agoYes, there might be dozens of you.
- BoorishBears 5y agoNo there's plenty, HN just has the kind of people who need to loudly proclaim they don't engage with <insert popular thing> That wrongly creates the impression that there are only a few HN users engaging with it.
- cheschire 5y agoFor the uninitiated, this is a meme reference to a clip from the TV show Arrested Development, popular on Imgur as a reaction to show support for someone else who expresses a sense of loneliness in their appreciation or affection. A version of this: https://i.imgur.com/pgXjbNy.gifv https://i.imgur.com/pgXjbNy.gifv
- w-ll 5y agoHow much could a banana cost? 10 dollars?
- still_grokking 5y agoHN and Imgur are among my favorite sites on the web! Both sites are quite "nerdy". Each in their own way.
- Swizec 5y agoWho doesn't? It's the best source of almost everything. Perfect mix of culturally important twitter and news screenshots and entertaining gifs.
- dTal 5y agoAbsolutely this. imgur.com is the only reason I can pretend to be "down with the kids".
- Swizec 5y agoOh yes also all the good/important tiktoks end up on there. I don’t even have tiktok and am conversant in all the memes. 7/7 would recommend
- plinkplink 5y agoIf you were really an imgurian, you'd know that the correct perfect score is 5/7.
- joymonger 5y agoThe way some of the replies talk about the front page of imgur (huge time sink, insightful, entertaining, keeps you in the loop) is the same way I'd talk about the FYP on tiktok.
- clavicat 5y agoI scrolled through it for five minutes just now. Advice animals, rage-bait about politicians, political cartoons, cute animals—this is complete garbage.
- shrikant 5y agoHuh wow, you weren't kidding! I remember going on the front page of Imgur once a couple of years back and it seemed less entertaining and more rage-baity than now -- think I'll revisit that decision...
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- hbn 5y agoI recall being in high school (around 2013, 2014) and some of my classmates would browse imgur while slacking off from work. Not sure how big it is these days, but I think some people use it the same way you'd browse r/funny on reddit, or iFunny. Except there isn't really a topic, it's just images of whatever people think is interesting.
- fnord77 5y agoyou're forced there if you want to upload something
- cobertos 5y agoI used to in college. Extremely bad habit, was easy to spend 4+ hours there just hitting the right arrow.
- andkon 5y agoSomehow I’d always end up doing this most right in the middle of finals.
- wheybags 5y agoSame. I stopped when I realised it was passively teaching me celebrity gossip, which I never wanted to know.
- new_guy 5y agoIt's so easy to absorb 'celebrity' gossip, I always wondered if it'd be possible to do the same with say science or maths, if it was presented in the same kind of format.
- rchaud 5y agoEasy way to find out. Remove the pictures from celebrity gossip posts, and see how much you remember.
- cobertos 5y agoI think the hardest part is the rigour. Math and science build on concepts over time, and mastery is easier with more hands-on experience. Just presenting it to someone in a feed might be waaay too passive for absorption.
- still_grokking 5y agoYou can actually spend days doing that…
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- MengerSponge 5y agoMy retired father?
- handmodel 5y agoI one time posted an album on Imgur of my hobby project. I was hoping it would do well on the niche subreddit it involved. It did ok on reddit (100 upvotes) but a few thousands upvotes on Imgur and made the front page with hundreds of thousands of views. I was shocked since I didn't even know that was a thing. But my guess is popular with people who are on their phone a lot, are not as tech saavy, or international.
- Blikkentrekker 5y agoI only now learned that it has such a thing and decided to see it, and I am very confused by the lack of advertisement on it indeed.
- latexr 5y agoPlenty of people, overwhelmingly men[1]. Make no mistake, Imgur is a social network. It has its own memes, regular posting themes, and users recognised by the community[2]. [1]: They are (were?) proud of that and bragged about it in a page describing themselves. [2]: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anewbadlyphotoshoppedphotoofmichaelceraeveryday https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anewbadlyphotoshoppedphotoofm...
- rchaud 5y agoPeople that subscribe to default subreddits and click the Youtube "Featured" section.
- snthd 5y agoPeople who want to find memes to repost on their social media.