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Imgur (pronounced imager ^[x], stylized imgur) is an online image hosting service primarily known for its free subscription-gratuitous hosting and heavy apply past the news aggregation website Reddit.

History

On February 23, 2009, Alan Schaaf^[ane] created the image hosting service Imgur. On the aforementioned day, Alan (Reddit handle MrGrim^[2]) posted a thread on the /r/reddit.com subreddit on Reddit chosen "My Gift to Reddit: I created an image hosting service that doesn't suck. What do you call up?" containing a link to Imgur^[iii]. The mail service received over 2100 upvotes and over 670 comments since first posted. Inside the first year of launch, Imgur has "sprouted into a hotbed of online culture", serving almost 20 million pageviews a month^[iv].

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Features

The most attractive feature of Imgur is its unproblematic uploading characteristic, as opposed to competing paradigm hosting services like Photobucket and Imageshack. Imgur besides has an Application Programming Interface (API) where third-party developers can dispense the full functionality of the site, to create their ain services like web applications and mobile applications^[vii]. The site likewise has a PRO characteristic, which raises the epitome hosting limit to unlimited (as opposed to 255 images for standard accounts)^[viii]. Imgur likewise has some uploading tools for web browsers (Firefox and Chrome) and Content Direction Services such as Wordpress^[9] as well equally a Custom Gallery page that enables users to keep runway of their favorite tags in one identify.^[12]

Image Captioning Tool

On June 26th, 2013, Imgur launched its own image macro generator service^[xi] to fill the void on Reddit after Quickmeme was banned from the site for using bots to downvote submissions generated via competitors. According to the visitor, the captioning tool has been under development for several months, only the projection was quick-tracked to run into the demand of its users.

In the days leading up to its launch, Redditors on /r/adviceanimals began uploading their Quickmeme creations to Imgur as a temporary workaround, with many suggesting that Imgur should innovate an image captioning tool of its own.

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VIEW THE PAGE SOURCE ON QUICKMEME FIND THE TO JPEG OF YOUR MEMEAND UPLOAD IT TO IMGUR duck bird water bird fauna ducks geese and swans photo caption mallard waterfowl beak

Highlights

2013 Apr Fools Day

On April 1st, 2013, Imgur announced that information technology will start accepting image submissions via post with an "upload via snail mail" characteristic, encouraging users to impress their images and mail information technology to the provided accost of Imgur's San Francisco office to be featured on the site within two to three weeks. The mail was too accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek prologue explaining their reason.

At Imgur, our users' input is the driving strength backside all of our decisions. With the rise of the hipster, nosotros were forced to inquire ourselves, "How can nosotros concenter the film camera user?" It became evident to usa that a more than non-traditional type of uploading is necessary to appeal to a broad user base of operations which includes film users, the figurer illiterate, and those agape of radiation from scanners. Snail mail is a proven method of data transfer that has been around long earlier the Net. To stay on the forefront of technology, we're going back to the roots of communication.

International Upvote Everything Day

On July twelfth, 2016, Imgur user ErinFromTheOffice^[13] uploaded an image of Heath Ledger's Joker with text declaring "On July 29, 2016, upvote everything in usersub. Everything. The FP (forepart page) people will finally know what it'south really like downwards here." As of July 29th, 2016, the post has received over 15,000 upvotes.

On July 29th, 2016, Imgur's front end page was filled with posts celebrating Upvote Everything Twenty-four hours.^[fourteen] ^[xv] ^[xvi] Users took the opportunity to try and get shitposts on the front end page, either with disturbing content^[18] or with irrelevant memes.^[17]

THIS ISAJULY 29THTEST TO SEE HOW FAR A POST WITH NO VALUE, USING AN IRRELEVANT MEME WILL GET IN TERMS OF UPVOTES POINTSP5 USERSUB RISING? FRONT PAGE PLACE BETS NOW! text vertebrate water bird ducks geese and swans photo caption bird beak

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Sea Slugs

On November 9th, following the 2022 United States Presidential Election, Imgur users banded together to fill the front end page with sea slugs equally a distraction from politics. The phenomenon started following dozens of photograph posts of ocean slugs from user Homophone^[19] captioned, "I voted, now I'grand posting sea slugs until I feel ameliorate" (shown below).

In the post-obit 24-hour interval, over m posts related to body of water slugs were posted and upvoted in an attempt to get politics off the front page of Imgur.^[xx] As of November 10th, 2016, the top sea slug post comes from irtaylor^[21] captioned, "Fill up the Forepart Page with Ocean Slugs" (below, left). The same day, user IceSentry took to /r/OutOfTheLoop^[22] to ask a question almost the rise of ocean slugs on Imgur.

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Traffic

Co-ordinate to Imgur's monthly site statistics^[five], for the monthly period between 11th of October to tenth of Nov, 61,627,977 images were uploaded and image views were 29,976,799,540. Bandwidth used has reached 3.67 petabytes. The site has an Alexa rank of 98 in November 2012^[6].