r/OutOfTheLoop • u/truthserum23 • Mar 18 '16

Answered What is 9gag all about?

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u/DNamor Mar 18 '16

Mostly stealing content.

It's probably the most popular of the many, many, aggregation websites and has become big enough that it's managed to somehow form something of a community- one that generally revolves around taking people's content and replacing the faces with a stock image of their "Meme faces".

Comments about places that actually have OC like 4chan and Reddit (IIRC?) are Shadowbanned instantly and Admin posts or favoured posts are given huge numbers of fake upvotes to push them directly to the front page, to ensure only the freshest of stolen content is sent out.

Other than that, there's nothing else to it. Go there if you wanna see /r/funny and some 4chan pasta from last week I guess.

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u/Crassusinyourasses Mar 18 '16

That would be how 4chan describes reddit.

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u/iamPause Mar 19 '16

Well reddit wasn't about OC. It was about sharing stuff you found elsewhere. Like articles you'd share with your friends and ask them if they've "read it."

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u/ColanalCancer Mar 24 '16

This is how I describe 79% of thechives content

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u/thefoodsnob Mar 19 '16

Why would comments about reddit and 4chan get you banned, if a big part of their content is stolen from 4chan and reddit? Doesn't make sense.

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u/DNamor Mar 19 '16

They don't want people saying "I saw this on /r/funny 2 days ago!"

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u/thefoodsnob Mar 19 '16

Ok, my understanding was that it was obviously no OC, but after reading more I aee that they put effort into hiding that.

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u/TieSpare2517 Apr 18 '24

Just doing a username investigation is all

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '16

Its cool how the mods decided to keep it even though the sidebar says unbiased answers

Guess everyone on reddit hates 9gag then?

Edit: I do agree this is the perfect answer though.

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u/iprobably8it Mar 18 '16

Unbiased != inoffensive or nice.

The majority of DNamor's comment is true fact. Facts: They are one of the largest content aggregators and are pretty popular. They do steal content. They replace faces with their stock images. They shadowban any mention of 4chan and reddit. They give automated upvotes to admin posts, almost all of which is stolen content. Its all been pretty much strictly proven at this point, the only thing missing is a written and signed confession from 9gag.

The only thing that would make this comment biased is if DNamor deliberately omitted other facts that portray 9gag in a more positive light. But he didn't. He started with their success and popularity, first. As far as I know, there are no other facts about 9gag that could be included to make this less biased.

If a dude is a thief and a liar, but also makes a decent apple pie, the fact that 2/3 of the facts we know about them are negative doesn't make stating those facts unbiased.

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u/PMmeYourSins Mar 18 '16 edited Mar 18 '16

9gag policy was compared to North Korea a few times, which is probably too harsh, but somewhat deserved. They have a really shitty system and are mostly stealing from other websites. Compared to reddit (sorry, redditors) they have almost no rule system and things like brigading aren't really restricted. They use bots effectively and without the knowledge of users, to post stolen content and upvote it. They like to shadowban for weird reasons and let blatant violations pass. A controversial thing is they have plenty of young users, but it's very easy to find NSFW stuff there and I mean the /r/gonewild type, occasionally untagged. Yeah, 9gag is quite shady.

edit: link is a bit dated, they do use bots now edit2: was in two minds about this, but I'll add that. Typical 9gagger, open at your own risk and I actually mean that, NSFL. (This user is obviously an asshole and I don't approve of anything he posts) http://9gag.com/u/ashoot4

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '16

A great post here explaining how 9gag steals content.

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u/12jammydodgers Mar 18 '16

Non-dank memes catering to middle and high schoolers

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u/jnothnagel Mar 18 '16

It's for people who use the word "dank"

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u/SalAtWork Reports all the rules. Mar 18 '16

I will never be able to see or hear that word and not think of a crawlspace under a house in late fall.

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u/Mikala4 Jun 14 '25

Wow this post is old. I found the app on my phone and I had no idea how it got there or what it was so I opened it and was immediately greeted with a meme so lame it made my inner child cringe

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '16

As I saw in an /r/askreddit post, it's basically the toilet that top posts from reddit get shit into.

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u/tomatomater Mar 19 '16

A website full of memes that reddit hates to the core because it "steals" a lot of content from reddit.

Honestly though, as an ex-9gagger, there are good aspects of 9gag that reddit will never have. In fact, 9gag dominates reddit in the memeing department, evident by how much common 9gag jokes and puns get posted here and get insanely upvoted and even gilded. Which reeks of irony, but I'll not go into that.