9GAG Flag, and why it needs to be removed.

[Jewker]

The following is the text content of the reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/9gag/comments/ac4yxo/everything_we_know_about_9gag_so_far_updated_2019/

Introduction

9Gag is closely controled by the administrators. They steal posts from all around the internet, mostly from reddit, and delete comments/posts at will. Trying to warn 9gaggers about this is useless, they will never even see your comments.

Here are some known facts:

Almost 20% of the images found on 9gag were taken from reddit

Most of the images found on 9gag's front page were uploaded by the administrators of the website.

All of the posts made by the administrators were taken from other websites, mainly reddit

All of the posts made by the administrators receive automatic upvotes as soon as they are submitted

Certain words such as "reddit" or "repost" are filtered, and comments/posts that contain them are deleted

Repost machine and fake upvotes

9Gag employs what we call "Repost machine". It is a system that takes popular posts from reddit, reposts them on 9gag and adds fake upvotes. This used to be a manual process (more about the old system can be read here), but it is currently automated. The most up to date post about the repost machine was created by one of our moderators, /u/Gill__Gill, and we highly recommend that you read it as well. Here is how the Repost Machine currently works :

The system chooses random posts from websites around the internet, mostly reddit

The system removes any existing watermark and adapts the title so it is appropriate to 9gag (this step may actually be manual)

The image is posted to the Fresh page

After staying there for around two hours, it automatically receives around 50 upvotes and gets bumped to the Trending Page

Sometimes, posts made by real users also receive the 50 upvotes treatment!

This means that the administrators secretely manage to send images of their choosing to the front page, creating the impression that 9gag's user base actually creates good original content. However, The Repost Machine is not perfect, and it sometimes reposts images that either make no sense or can't be understood by 9gaggers (just lurk around this subreddit and see for yourself). PS: It should be noted that Reddit is not the only source of their content!

(Currently, the username of the original poster is not shown. This means it's impossible to know whether the image was submitted by the administrators or the users)

This post by /u/martinmine shows the number of reposts found on 9gag and from which subreddits they steal content (mainly /r/funny, /r/pics and /r/gaming).

Censorship

A list of words that are automatically removed can be seen in this post, by /u/konfu1. The list includes:

Reddit

4chan

Repost

And many more

They also censor comments that contain special characters

/u/konfu1 was kind enough to create a [Greasemonkey] (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/) script that shows you which comments you made are invisible. You can find it here.

The Death of 9gag

Over the last year or so, there has been a noticeable downtrend in 9gag's visitors and overall popularity of the site as seen [here on Alexa.com.] (https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/9gag.com) More and more 9gaggers are being exposed to other forms of social media (including reddit). This has negated the need for any sort of targeted recruitment, as large amounts of 9gaggers are leaving the site passively. This is also reflected in this subreddit's [traffic stats.] (https://www.reddit.com/r/9gag/about/traffic/) Soon enough, 9gag will be forced to either move full time to other platforms where they have a presence (such as Instagram), or shut down as ad revenue won't be enough.

Conclusion

9gag administrators are extremely shady. They blend themselves in the community to blatantly steal content from other websites, censor comments to prevent 9gaggers from finding out the truth, promote their agenda through fake upvotes, manipulate submission times and more.

They are also not very bright. They often post images that would only make sense for a redditor, and even though 9gaggers may not understand how an image no one finds funny got to the frontpage, there is nothing they can do about it.

[0451]

Wow, I knew 9Gag was bad, but not this bad lol.

[Klinsk]

It's no secret 9gag is dying fast, I myself am an Imgurian.

[0451]

Originally posted by Klinsk:

It's no secret 9gag is dying fast, I myself am an Imgurian.

Same. 9Gag doesn't even compare at all.

[Klinsk]

Please make a new video of me <3

[Streex]

Why would anyone at psyonix/epic care if 9gag are stealing vids n pics from Reddit?? Are they affiliated??

[0451]

Originally posted by Klinsk:

Please make a new video of me <3

lol, that wasn't mine. I just saw it and thought it was hilarious the way he captured your comment.

[Klinsk]

Oh :(

[0451]

Hey, he doesn't know your history of comedy like most of us here do lol. He took it a bit too seriously.

[Klinsk]

Yeah, I bet haha.

[BlueLightning]

9gag can't take profit on me, i put ad blocker all time, without non-intrusive ad block checked :#

No site can make me turn it off, i just edit the html my own way

[Jewker]

Originally posted by BlueLightning #sellsLimitedCards:

9gag can't take profit on me, i put ad blocker all time, without non-intrusive ad block checked :#

No site can make me turn it off, i just edit the html my own way

Stop using 9gag, go on reddit instead and never touch 9gag again.

[Blaze76]

To be fair, it's not like Reddit hasn't ever stolen any posts from 9gag and who's to say Reddit hasn't committed any of the other misdeeds? I think they are both guilty of everything mentioned to some degree and therefore, either both of their flags be removed, or neither.

[JumboBog320]

Originally posted by Jewker:

Originally posted by BlueLightning #sellsLimitedCards:

9gag can't take profit on me, i put ad blocker all time, without non-intrusive ad block checked :#

No site can make me turn it off, i just edit the html my own way

Stop using 9gag, go on reddit instead and never touch 9gag again.

How about stop?
Do you think 100% of the stuff posted on reddit is orginal? Not taken any videos or memes or whatever from other sites?
If not, well they are as bad as 9gag.
Ive heard horror stories from reddit and its modatators too. Just as bad as what you said, if not worse.

Its not 9gag, its reddit too.

So who gives a ♥♥♥♥ about a flag in a video game? You can choose not to use it like 99.99% of the userbase.

PS: I use both.

[Jewker]

Originally posted by JumboBog320:

Originally posted by Jewker:

Stop using 9gag, go on reddit instead and never touch 9gag again.

How about stop?
Do you think 100% of the stuff posted on reddit is orginal? Not taken any videos or memes or whatever from other sites?
If not, well they are as bad as 9gag.
Ive heard horror stories from reddit and its modatators too. Just as bad as what you said, if not worse.

Its not 9gag, its reddit too.

So who gives a ♥♥♥♥ about a flag in a video game? You can choose not to use it like 99.99% of the userbase.

PS: I use both.

Go to the OC section, ALL of it is 100% original, the rest is almost completely uploaded to reddit first.

Ha, show me proof for your so called horror stories, because they're false.

It's not, it's 9gag.

What about a nazi flag? You can choose not to use it like 99.99% of the userbase, have a problem it's in the game?

PS. You are clearly misinformed, read again.

[Jewker]

Originally posted by Blaze76:

To be fair, it's not like Reddit hasn't ever stolen any posts from 9gag and who's to say Reddit hasn't committed any of the other misdeeds? I think they are both guilty of everything mentioned to some degree and therefore, either both of their flags be removed, or neither.

No, admins don't manipulate the system at all, show me 1 post stolen from 9gag, UPLOADED BY A USER, NOT AN ADMIN, and hit the front page of reddit page on reddit (5+ upvotes)