9gag - The easiest way to have fun!

What do you think?

9gag is one of the easiest ways to have fun with 2,7 million likes on facebook and a few million likes as a programme itself has spread through the world in just a few seconds. 9gag is hated by some and loved by most. Don't follow the gang and become a conformist, decide for yourself! 


Some comments and opinions

Let’s try to keep this as a gentleman debate. There is really no point in starting an ironic flamewar about 4chan v. 9fag blah blah forcing memes etc etc.To be honest here, I personally don’t really see anything hugely wrong with them. (hear me out)

From the looks of a lot of images in our gallery here, a fair majority has the 9gag watermark on the bottom. From what I can see (I haven’t really been on their site) they have a fairly nice compilation of images on their site. You can’t really deny some of the stuff put here is actually funny.I would assume all of the hate came from the meme forcing. I guess that’s when it becomes a problem. And then some kind of incident where they told /b/ that 9gag made a meme that /b/ clearly made? Dunno much about that, but attacking 4chan is probably not a good idea. I guess they have just become some site that other sites think is annoying. - BEARIT

There are 3 huge reasons.

1. 9gag relies largely on Rage Face face comics and reaction images for most of it’s humour. Ragefaces were unpopular months ago when Reddit started overloading on them, and are pretty much considered to be the opposite of comedy by a big portion of internet users. This is probably 4chan’s biggest reason for hating it.

2. The banner. The banner somehow manages to suck the fun out of great images, just by being there. And this isn’t even in a “oh, 9gag sucks blurgh” way, the same can be said of every single site that sticks its shitty banners onto images (yes that includes most of Cheezburger as well". I think it’s the branding of it. An ever present advertisement for the site, stuck on interrupting the humour. Which brings us to the biggest reason of all.

3. Stealing content. By far the most annoying thing of all, is 9gags complete inability to add sources for anything – ANYTHING – they post. It’s basically the modern day equivalent of eBaums world. A bunch of assholes taking other peoples work and content and reposting it themselves, complete with their watermark, so any semblance of crediting the creator is gone. And it sure as hell is pissing off a lot of webcomic creators and other online people.

And yes, I know that KYM does a similar thing, often taking other peoples macros and images and posting them without credit (although you guys should seriously try to provide a link to the original post in the notes, especially if it’s a drawing or art piece), but, and here’s the big difference: we don’t pretend we made them. We don’t add a banner so that everyone thinks that 9gag is where it came from. And that’s a big difference.

Those are the main reasons. Pretty sound reasons for hating a site, but hey. At least it isn’t FunnyJunk. -PEPPER