Imgur needs to get its act together.

I'm so sick and tired of this "guilty until proven innocent" mentality that plagues this website. I am repeatedly seeing stories reach the front page where the comments are filled with people cheering on "battered women" or threatening the people being accused in the posts. Two that I saw in the past week made me absolutely embarrassed to be part of this community and I can think of multiple examples over the past few months that make it worse.

Let's start with the "HI Walter" guy. I think the fat kid's name was Patrick. Anyway, there was this video where the fat kid, Patrick, was talking to this Walter person. He was bragging about how he got a new girlfriend and how he'd be so jealous of her. Patrick then takes the camera and brings us to the bathroom where he had a girl tied up, beaten, and crying on the floor. Awful scene. So why is this a problem?

Well...I, among many others, had seen this video long before it ever arrived on Imgur. We knew it to be a hoax. Creepy as fuck, but a hoax nonetheless. But what did the dumbass Internet detectives do? Well they decided that the girl in the video looked somewhat similar to a girl who had gone missing around the time that the video was originally uploaded. So they contacted to police. And the police checked the video. Would have been nice if it would have ended there. But no. The Internet detectives contacted the family of this girl and asked her if she looked like their daughter. Post after post were put on Imgur, circle jerking each other for the "heroes" they were.

Turns out it wasn't the girl. In fact, "Patrick" was an actor or something and made multiple videos like this. So... Thank God Imgur got involved and tried to ruin this kid's life. Digging up the past, reopening wounds that the family had probably find let heal... But then there were people who tried to justify it. "Well it was better safe than sorry" some would say. Yeah, sure. Because the girl also had dark hair and was white. She looked like the missing girl... Fuck sakes.

And that wasn't the only time. That was just the one that pissed me off the most. Not two weeks later a post was being spread around about this girl who was beaten to a pulp by here boyfriend. It was awful. She looked terrible. All the White Knights of Imgur jumped to her aid. But suddenly her post was removed. Why? Hmm...weird because she re-uploaded it the next day, claiming that she was too embarrassed to keep it up there but decided to be brave and try again.

The real reason? Someone who knows how to think for themselves did some digging and found her Facebook account. Turns out, she actually tripped over her niece's toy and banged her face on the coffee table. Haha but yeah man...let's just jump to her aid without any thought.

More recently there were two stories that some of you might have seen. The first was about a judge who asked a "rape victim" why she didn't just keep her legs closed. But wait...turns out after reading the transcripts of the trial, the judge was actually questioning her about how someone was able to penetrate her when her bottom was in the sink the way she described it. With her pants around her ankles and her ass in the sink, the judge could see no reasonable way that he could have done that without her assistance. So he asked her what he asked her. Thank God for context.

And the next story was about the Indian athlete who wasn't allowed to be in the country because of Trump's travel ban. But Chuck something appealed to the court and he was allowed to play over here, where he proceeded to rape a 13 year old girl. Oh but wait...if this story wasn't bullshit, I wouldn't have brought it up. Imgur actually ripped this one to shreds and I'm pretty happy about that. But anywho, India isn't part of the travel ban. And the girl that was "raped" was actually kissed on the mouth and groped above her clothing. Now, that's definitely not good but according to some comments I read, this is a sign of affection in India and is in no way sexual or whatever. So yes, it is weird and in my opinion, wrong... But it isn't rape.

Why do I bring up these examples? Because I'm tired of people jumping down my throat when I ask for evidence to support claims of...well anything really. I'm tired of being the asshole when everyone is on the bandwagon believing what they read, but then when I'm proven right...no apologies. Nothing.

Moral of this huge rant. Don't be sheep. Think for yourself. Do your own fucking research and stop with this "guilty until proven innocent" bullshit.

TL;DR: OP is aggravated with the listen and believe mentality that Imgur seems to have. I'm well aware there are quite a few people that agree with me on this but the minority is the loudest...