Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

It's a not-so-unspoken fact that a lot of social media platforms are popular because they have tons of pornography. Reddit, Twitter, OnlyFans (more openly) and (until now) Imgur all have massive communities around explicit content. Even Twitch and YouTube are hugely successful as ways for OnlyFans creators to drive users to their explicit content.

Going to be very interesting to see if imgur drops off the face of the earth as tinypic, imageshack, photobucket and many others before it did. Certainly this was the longest-lasting image host I can think of.

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Post by yieldcrv » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 3:38 AM UTC

the “find out” phase, for imgur

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Post by lylejantzi3rd » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 3:39 AM UTC

godzillabrennus wrote: post #3

Makes sense. Not exactly advertising friendly content for them to monetize.

That's been true for the past 10 years. What's changed?

edit: They sold to Medialab in 2021. That's what's changed.

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Post by mylasttour » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 3:41 AM UTC

etimberg wrote: post #4

Is this their tumblr moment?

It effectively is for large Reddit communities, as most of them rely on Imgur to upload NSFW content. There aren't many free image hosting sites as "generous" as Imgur (unlimited bandwidth, large sizes, no visible compression, "permanent") so it'll be interesting to see where they move to.

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Post by kevinmchugh » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 3:44 AM UTC

At some point imgur built a front page. Initially it mirrored reddits front page. And then it diverged, and very strangely for an image hosting site, most of the content on the front page was text. Often about current events, engaging in a superficial way (so, falling into the traps that HN is set up to avoid) but sometimes just tweet screenshots.

This i guess is another move away from image content for imgur. Dunno.

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Post by sudosysgen » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 3:45 AM UTC

mylasttour wrote: post #8

etimberg wrote: post #4

Is this their tumblr moment?

It effectively is for large Reddit communities, as most of them rely on Imgur to upload NSFW content. There aren't many free image hosting sites as "generous" as Imgur (unlimited bandwidth, large sizes, no visible compression, "permanent") so it'll be interesting to see where they move to.

You can just post directly to Reddit now.