Discovering Imgur has its own community and culture is like finding out a group of people live in your closet. You can almost imagine opening the door to grab a coat only to find a dozen people who swear this is the place they bring various outerwear and talk about such things. When you tell them they're in a coat closet, they may get upset and assure you it's more than that, now.
I once discovered a community of people in a PhPBB board I administered - they didn't register on the board itself, but one of the plugins allowed a different type of user registration, and a whole sub-forum itself.
We had no idea, until one day we stumbled into it by accident. It was very much like discovering a family was living in your closet.
That is such a fascinating story. I would love to hear more about it.
I've always compared it to that tiny alien city in a train station locker from Men In Black II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9sd10CHAP8
Imgur has had its own community for over a decade. This really isn't a good comparison; who stores their coats in someone else's closet and expect for nobody else to interact with it?
The answer is most people using imgur to merely post on reddit do just that
i loled and so true
so bloody true tho isnt it