That was a long time ago. In 2014 they took a bite of the poisoned apple and received 40 mil. I can imagine that's where the rat race began, till they sold to this MediaLab company in 2021.
I can imagine anything of value, both culturally and technologically, is just being squeeze for any possible penny.
It was, then reddit did their own image hosting and Imgur had to shift to keeping their own community, and slowly introducing ads (the reason Imgur was started in the first place was because the found was sick of bad image sharing sites with ads) Eventually the Imgur founder sold it, and here we are today.
That was a long time ago. In 2014 they took a bite of the poisoned apple and received 40 mil. I can imagine that's where the rat race began, till they sold to this MediaLab company in 2021.
I can imagine anything of value, both culturally and technologically, is just being squeeze for any possible penny.
It was, then reddit did their own image hosting and Imgur had to shift to keeping their own community, and slowly introducing ads (the reason Imgur was started in the first place was because the found was sick of bad image sharing sites with ads) Eventually the Imgur founder sold it, and here we are today.