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Aug 29, 2025 4:49 PM
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ImgurRulerOfThePlanetOmicronPerseiEight
May I asked what is the blackout about?
I haven't logged on imgur for a while
KleptoKea
No worries mate, Medialab became Imgur's parent company a few years ago and fired the Imgur team. Since then, Medialab (AKA Business Daddy, BD for short) has been enshittifying
imgur in broad daylight and failing to do due maintenance/repairs when needed. Ads have been intensifying, censorship has become concerning, and bots have been running rampant. The last straw that seems to have broken the camel's back for our community was when notifications stopped working properly and /
KleptoKea
as expected, weren't being fixed. So the community snapped and went full protest. Many are feeling like this could be imgurs last gasp. One imgurian is working on building a better place for us to migrate to. Keep an eye on this one :)
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