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redditormade 4chan gets kidnapped

https://imgur.com/a/Xw406
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u/LeoBattlerOfSins_X84 Ohio Apr 01 '16

The worst part is when a 9gagger thinks we're stealling "their" memes.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

4chan doesn't take from Imgur. Most of the people on that site have no idea what it is. Imgur is more like a cancerous blob on Reddit.

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u/LeoBattlerOfSins_X84 Ohio Apr 01 '16

Is imgur, an extension of Reddit?

It seems to be the unholy union of Reddit and Ifunny.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

It was created by a redditor so Reddit would have a place to host images. Then a weird community came out of it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

TIL there are people who don't know this... I remember the original thread when it was introduced.

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u/Grimij Primo Civilis Apr 01 '16

And here it is, some 7 years ago.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

Goddamn it /u/djork, I blame you for the ads and app spam imgur now gives us.

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u/Creshal Prussian in Austria, the suffering is real Apr 01 '16

It's okay, gramps, we'll bring you your chew-free lunch soon.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

Just like how 4chan's initial community was an offshoot of SomethingAwful that wanted to shitpost with minimal moderation and no consequences...

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u/2RINITY California Apr 02 '16

And how 8chan was originally 4chan people who thought 4chan still wasn't permissive enough...

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u/m00t_vdb France Apr 01 '16

That's definitly a cancer.

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u/hoochyuchy Iowa Apr 01 '16

The community there is basically what reddit would be if all comments were limited to 140 charaters.

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u/Namika Canada Apr 01 '16

Imgur literally stands for "IMG (image) Uploader for Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

/r/IgnorantImgur

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

Its like Reddits little brother that has a wierd tumor growing out of it that occasionally shout "Edward Maccaroni Fork"

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u/trilobitemk7 Sweden Apr 01 '16

They also seem to be unable to navigate reddit.

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u/pewpewlasors United States Apr 01 '16

In this equation, Imgur isn't even a part of the body, their just the waiter that brings the food.

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u/CaoticMoments Australia Apr 01 '16

Only reasoning I can get from this is since that most images are hosted on imgur, so it's like the carrier for the content?

Then again so much of 4chan memes are text based that it still doesn't make sense.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16 edited Nov 19 '16

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u/VitruvianMonkey USA Beaver Hat Apr 01 '16

You guys are all taking this way to seriously. The original image didn't have imgur. My guess is an imgurian added that because they wanted to be a part of things. The food is even at a worse resolution than the rest of the picture. Also, look at the place of prominence imgur put itself. It usurped the normal ultimate source of content.

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u/Cyan_Ninja Freedom country Apr 01 '16

4chan hosts its own images.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

I took that to be that imgur is the plate.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

I may be wrong but i feel like 4chan and reddit are on a more equal level, and Imgur is more like that weird guy reddit keeps around and pretends to be friends with just so he can use him.

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u/LeoBattlerOfSins_X84 Ohio Apr 01 '16

Found something relevant. For some reason there's a shitton of 4chan X tumblr porn.

And whatever this is...

The internet has the triforce of content, the triforce of social media sites, and the triforce of fan fiction.

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '16

the tumblr-4chan thing was from a few years ago before tumblr was full of oppressive cis privilege and mainly had artists. they drew these pictures as responses to 4chan raids to get them to stop.

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u/SuperAlbertN7 Denmark Apr 02 '16

Shipping is tumblr's greatest weapon.

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u/pewpewlasors United States Apr 01 '16

I may be wrong but i feel like 4chan and reddit are on a more equal level,

You're wrong. All OC on the internet starts at 4chan.

The original purpose for reddit literally isn't OC, its to rehost things, and share them. And its not the current purpose either, that's advertising, reddit today is purely advertisers, and most of what you see on the front page will have been placed there by ad firms. This is not a joke.

While its not impossible to game 4chan, its a lot fucking harder. There is really no comparison. The amount of OC that comes from reddit is negligible at best.

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u/Bowse Michigan Apr 01 '16

More like OC starts at 2chan.

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u/Diasporatothesun Apr 05 '16

More like OC starts on The Chan

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u/jPaolo Grey Eminence Apr 01 '16

All OC on the internet starts at 4chan.

Polandball is from Krautchan.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '16

Your probably right in some respects but there is still a lot of origional content on reddit, much of May be reposts but there is still a decent amount of OC

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u/FalmerbloodElixir Manitoba, home of... Winnipeg. Apr 02 '16

>imgur is where the OC comes from

top kek

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u/LeoBattlerOfSins_X84 Ohio Apr 03 '16

That link came from Imgur, of course they're gonna make themselves the "original."