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9gag (NSFW)
9gag is an unfunny meme site.
...so?
What makes 9gag so special? Why does it draw so much ire towards itself? It's unfunny, so what? From what I've seen of it it's a lot like other unfunny meme sites, like funnyjunk or memecenter. Why is it so unique in the sheer amount of hate it directs towards itself?
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apparently people who actually use and like 9gag take it super seriously or something, and apparently claim they invented memes they didn't.
this offends the sensibilities of your average /b/tard, and is therefore an internet crime.
Yeah. From what I've seen, a lot of the hate directed at 9gag stems from their "war" against 4chan and the fact that most of the remaining Internet pretty much has 4chan pegged as the lesser of two evils in this fight.
^Or simply don't care?
That too.
Anyone who falls for this shit needs their head examined:
9gag is the new Ebaumsworld: in its day, Ebaumsworld wasn't the only watermarking content aggragator shithole, but it was most prominent one. Same with 9gag: simply the biggest target, especially since it's popular with the FB crowd. Eternal Septemberites and bitching shitposters of the gb2reddit variety are simply cancers that feed off of each other.
Eh, they may not be the only ones, but they are in fact the biggest one, so why not go after them? I don't have any stake in this, but if I had, this would make sense to me. From all I've heard, 9gag deserves all the hate it gets, just as Ebaumsworld had.
There's also the fact that it has a habit of stealing content from other sites and claiming it as their own, which only adds fuel to the fire.
^ funnyjunk does that too.
A rough order (NSFW)
all I'm really getting out of this is "4chan superior, others inferior".
also that is a needlessly graphic...er..graphic.
The only thing I really hate about funnyjunk is blocking images that come up off google image search. It doesn't even show up right on their own damned site, much less being obnoxious to everyone else. Other than that, they tend to stay in their circle and can be ignored easily; 9gag...doesn't.
Switched that image to a link because...yeah.
Wasn't there a big deal about them suing The Oatmeal for saying their site had a bunch of stolen IP on it?
Though admittedly, from what I understand, they backed down on that pretty quickly, after which their lawyer kept going because he was insane.
The unintended joke is that all memes were shit to start with.
And 4chan is known to be the original source of most memes, so that's why they're on top of the chain.
I don't get what's so graphic or NSFW about the image, though. I've seen more "graphic" stuff in daily paper political cartoons, for Christ's sake.
True, but a bunch of people were grossed out by it and NSFW was the first label that jumped to mind.
If it's not an image you can show in a public area, it's not safe for work. Simple as that.
but work isn't a public area
^^ Your argument is invalid. (NSFW, I guess)
In the US, you couldn't show that in a public area. The US is really over-excitable about stuff.
Oh, speaking of which, I think that this simply deserves to be shown - a so very real election campaign billboard in Montenegro (NSFW, obviously).
^^^Well, fwiw, I'd much, much rather see a such a nice, fit body then people shitting on each other's plates, so your argument may not hold up entirely here
It's very simple, Ironweaver: Americans are afraid of naked people.
Clearly, I am entitled to speak for all Americans here...