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I've been seeing a lot of complaints and people saying KYM is going down, and hell, I used to be one of those people. But I'm going straight (in attitude, not sexuality [wink]) and I want to talk about it properly. I saw some people made threads about it, but most are just saying it's the end without thinking about thoroughly. So, what is going on, why is everyone acting like it's the end, and what can we do as a community to fix this?

(BTW, this is my first Thread! Yaaay!)

A lot of things are problematic on this site. The closing of galleries, loads of ecchi images, hash tag entries, people complaining in entries, images in the wrong places, but that's what I think.

Yeah, that's what people are complaining about most. Even so, I don't feel as if it means that everything is going to shit. Sure, it's bad right now, but if we just work as a community, I sure we can find some sort of solution to the problems. Also I think complaining in the entries is a big one, especially since I used to complain about entries too, thou I'm trying to change that. People can get really rough about it.

It's not really crumbling. This place whines for years about something and EVENTUALLY the mods and staff do something. Then people just complain about something else.

You're absolutely right.

BTW, I want to bring this up: Has anyone noticed that there have been a large amount of spam commentators recently? I'm talking about those guys who just join to put ads or spread hate and porn and stuff. I know most of them get banned immediately, but I've notice they are appearing at a alarming rate.
I've seen at least a good dozen of these guys, and every time one is banned, another just pops up a few days later.

KYM user-base is never happy, usually bitching about entries being on KYM, the ton of NSFW images on KYM, and how nobody on KYM can troll, and in my opinion the dumbness of people whining about entries trending… You comment on it, it trends.

but KYM won't fall that's for sure.

Hopefully KYM won't fall because I just got here.

Don't worry, I don't think it's crumbling, but something weird is defiantly going on. Take everything with a grain of salt, as I always say.

The way I see it the gallery shutdowns just triggered users and mods to vent about issues they've been bottling up for a while. Give it a week or so, everyone'll simmer down and we'll be back to the same ol' thing.

I think kym can't going down because it justifies its existence, kym its there to document internet fads and social media unless there is a strong competitor kym will stay for a long time, I think the worst it can happen is a drop down in userbase.

It was a really bad timing though the lock of the galleries and the spam of hashtags entries, it was like pouring salt to the wound.

True. We really do have a reason to exist. And you're right, we don't have any major competitors. The only site that get's close to being a competition is Encyclopedia Dramatica, and I don't even have to tell you everything that is wrong with that site. Besides, they don't even make pages on memes any more, they just make offensive shit for the sake of being offensive.

Point is, KYM isn't going down anytime soon, I just wanted to talk about what people have been complaining about.

It's not crumbling. It's not even close to crumbling. But it has many, many problems that need to be addressed.

With such a large amount of visitors, there are bound to be misuse. It's only natural for there to be horrible entries, rude users, NSFW images, and karma abuse. These are problems that are caused by just about everyone, and effected by just about everyone. Otherwise, we as a site would be too strict, or too chaotic.

The mods are trying to fix things, and we are brainstorming on how to solve these issues, but not everyone will be happy. We can afford to lose some users in place of a better site.

Everything the mods have done is for a reason. If the users had followed the rules, then the galleries would not have been locked. Now that they are, of course users will object.

I've said in a previous thread why I think KYM has been going downhill. And unfortunately none of the problems I really outlined can be solved without the admins to help us along.

Right now all we can hope for is the administration to reply to our plea's for a new community manager. Everything started it's massive downhill spiral back when our last unofficial one, AmandaB, went to go work with Yahoo. If we can get at least that we can hopefully, HOPEFULLY, begin to work out the major problems.

Question, what would the community manager do, and what did Amanda do? I think I arrived here around the time she was leaving.

Keep contact with the mods and generally converse with the userbase

Active mods, a virulent base of users, a wide variety of forums, a impressive gallery of image sections, and a large quantity of folks dedicated to editing the site. . . .

I can say without a doubt not only is this site dead, but it is in fact not run by a group of skelligntons dedicated to resurrecting the Lich King of Zimbabwe, hoping to create a undead empire which stretches the whole world to make skeleton puns for all eternity.

Crumbling? No. Overreacting? Possibly. In a temporary – but nonetheless reversible – state of decline? Most likely. The way that this whole passion play of problems will end up being resolved will be once we can get some damage control of the many issues that we can find on the site, be it from the mods or Amanda B. 2.0 like the other users mentioned above.

Until then, I think the only thing that we, the users, can really do is to act like sensible human beings to the best of our abilities. Be the boy scouts and girl scouts of the internet, set an example for new users, keep in contact with the mods, and so on. Don't become part of the problem, be a part of the solution.

I don't think that the issue is the userbase being unhappy so much as the possibility that they are just shifting focus from one major problem (that gets resolved) to another (that has yet to be resolved), and provided that they aren't being whiny about it, that's generally a good thing for the upkeep of a community.

Edit: I'm going to have to remember the above metaphor. Oh, internet, you are full of my kind of people.

I just wanted to point out that Amanda was actually designated as the community manager, nothing "unofficial" about it. And she went to go work for Tumblr, not Yahoo.

I can't believe KnowYourMeme is dead.

People around here just looooove being drama queens.

gudnite sweet prince ;_;

@madcat: But Yahoo owns Tumblr now. She's working for that company one way or the other.

technically

I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school… I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy…

"Do you even go to this scho-,site?"

Well, i'm not really sure. first the cringeworthy gallery was shut down (and i regret some of my comments) than doge was just forgotten because the joke got annoying. Makes sense cause all we got was "wow, such this" and "wow, much that."

Overall, KYM isn't gonna be dead until every meme gets annoying or people shitpost.

I just have a lot of feelings…
(sniff)

Nah, just a little of overreaction. Maybe the problem its the influx of "bad entries" by well knowb users or mods. I don't want to be harsh, because I know he does this for fun, but I wish Don didn't so much hashtag entries that have no relevance or Advice animal that almost no one knows or find funny. The Shadman entry, while many dislike his work, we can't deny that he's a well known "artist" and deserves a entry, but because people hate him and more, they circlejerk and shitstormed to have the entry deadpooled.

I starting to think people are forgeting that this site its an internet memoraphilia. We are supposed to write here thing that either have an impact or at least is popular to be in every community, forum, site, etc.

After being here for 3+ years and seen many a KYM is changing *DOOM, DOOM I TELL YOU threads and all I see is

The destruction of rage comics, the great internet wars, the infectious hashtags (I call them number signs with String value after said number signs), the horrid G+, the over usage of memes, Anonymous acting as kids and/or they're actually kids.

It's not just KYM, it's the whole internet!

Wait, we had an imageboard?

I've looked into the amount of users we get each day. Guess what? About 60% of the new accounts we receive each day are advertising accounts. Most of them just sit there with a link to their scam site on their wall, but it still irks me.

60%? That scares me.

I thought everything was going to implode on us soon, but it seems things have settled down. As long as people adhere to the rules and avoid personal conflict we'll be fine (as in, not cease to exist). However, I'm pretty convinced now that the community is irredeemable.

From what I've heard people have been saying this site was shit since it first came out. But this isn't limited to KYM, youtube users think their site is shit, 4chan users think their site is shit, deviantart users think their site is shit. This is all basic human behavior.

And it's not limited to sites, people will talk about how much they hate their city, their country but the minute their "home" is attacked they'll come to its defense, don't believe me link
the majority of people posting in that thread have all stated at one point in time that they think this site sucks. So why are they defending it?

People will bitch about how much their community sucks until the cows come home, but seldom will they actually leave or try to fix the problems. But we all know that deep down in their hearts that they actually kinda like this place.

Let it burn! Let it all burn and from the ashes we shall arise! Arise, chickun! Arise!

I know I will get a bunch of downvotes but I do feel like know your meme is somewhat crumbling. As the people above me have stated, there are many problems with the site. One big problem is the uploading of ecchi art to the image galleries. If I wanted to see ecchi, I would go to other sites, not a site for documenting memes. If I could find a site that is like know your meme that didn't have the same problems as kym, I would quickly leave this site and go there. I like the general idea of this site, but I hate the community. I have deactivated 2 times already but I just can't bring myself to leave, as this site is great for keeping up with things such as events.

That's not really "crumbling". Like everyone says, it's been like this forever, so if it was crumbling, this site would be dead already. It's just this site's unique flaws which every site has, it's just these flaws happen to stand out more here than on many other sites for you. Why is that? Probably for any mix of your personal tastes. It depends on the person and their point of view on if the site is "crumbling" or not. To me, I like it. It has these issues and I acknowledge them, but it's definitely one of my favorite sites so I'm not leaving soon.