From what I've gathered, MediaLab bought imgur years ago. A couple weeks ago MediaLab fired most of people behind imgur, because MediaLab is an AI-first company.
Since then, Imgur has recently started to have lots of outages/glitches/etc. Imgur has also started purging nsfw and political content.
The combination of the firing, problems, and content purge have upset the user base. I'm not sure what Oliver has to do with it.
My sister, who is a diehard Imgurian, has been infodumping this entire drama on me all day so I know more than I even care to.
Some big company bought the platform, immediately fired what was left of the US moderation team, and the performance of the site has also gone to shit since the takeover. Now the users are protesting by spamming John Oliver images and that gif of The Hulk and Black Widow banging.
All imgur staff were fired. Notifications stopped working. Criticism of Medialab was met with bans. Boom.
I recall a few years ago they sold out to a for profit thing. And it has gone steadily downhill from there
This explains everything!
(j/k, this actually explains nothing)
A screenshot would seriously help because I have no idea what you're talking about.
Lmao damn, used to browse this site like crazy in like 2015...
I have no idea either. Obviously a protest but they fail to actually explain themselves in the post descriptions which is not helpful .
He..he..he
This will be a day long remembered.
We have seen the end of imgur.
We will soon see the end of Reddit.
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