Imgur

Imgur is an image hosting website where users upload their own pictures, usually for sharing funny or interesting pictures they find. A lot of memes have gone viral through initial posting on Imgur. Often times the comments section is the funniest place on the website. Imgur is the most popular image hosting server for pictures from popular blog/forum site Reddit. Everything is uploaded by users which creates the ultimate free media experience. Imgur features a lot of user photoshop, memes, animated gifs, photo albums and those cute cats. Although Imgur itself does not produce media, it acts as an exhibitor to the media that people produce or choose to distribute if they did not originally create it. It is like the photo equivalent to Soundcloud. Unlike other community type of sites, there is not a great deal of trolling, it is a very mature place and it does not lack in witty comments. 

Imgur is a free service that offers the option to choose a premium account that offers unlimited uploads, larger size images, animated gifs and it removes ads. Imgur is supported by advertising unless you have the "pro" account. A “pro” account could be somewhat accessed if you have an ad-blocking extension in your web browser. Recently there has been talks of Yahoo! purchasing the “biggest little site” on the internet. Imgur recently surpassed the 100 million user mark. Their audience is targeted at a wide range judging from the amount of people posting about finals and procrastination and others posting creative photography of their children, plural. Smart individuals seem to be the common basis. The growing interest in imgur could quickly remove its’ independent label.