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So with the new "claim authorship" process in place, I think it's a good time to start identifying the authorship information of Know Your Meme's most viewed images.

• Here's a step-by-step instruction on claiming authorship: click here

• Here's the link to the most viewed images: click here

For video uploads, authorship information will be automatically pulled from the source URL when you upload it in the first place. In order to ensure that the displayed information is accurate, please check the video URL and verify it is not a duplicate upload of someone else's work before submitting the link. You can also correct this information after submitting the URL by accessing "edit video" (for uploaders only) in KYM video page and updating the "author name" and "author URL" fields.

This is wonderful. We should advertise this new function on Deviant Art and Reddit so that as many artists as possible can know to come on here and stamp whichever of their images have been uploaded.

Also, if you have any tips on tracking down the original creators, share them here! Here are a couple of basic resources I used to ID some of the "most viewed" ones:

For most non-serial images, using Google Reverse Image search or TinEye will be very helpful in tracking down the page with the original instance.

For serial images (ex: advice animals or rage comics) that have strong presence on Reddit, try using Karmadecay.com to reverse image search Reddit.

Speaking of TinEye, it has an add-on for Google Chrome that I use. Right-clicking an image normally gives you an option to copy the image URL. With the add-on, right-clicking also gives you an option to search for the image using TinEye, and clicking that option gives you a new tab that lets you see where else the image is found on the 'Net.

I haven't had much success with it, but it can work sometimes. And it makes looking for images a lot simpler.

Apparently, there are add-ons for Firefox, Opera, Safari, and IE as well. It's near the bottom of the TinEye page.

Well, I'm glad about this.

It may say how we agree to these terms and e.t.c, at how we have the rights to distribute photos and so on, but I think this was needed before.

I'll help you guys out. I'll post one for now:

Image: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/185119-steve-jobs-death
Image: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/185118
Image: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/185113
Image: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/185125-steve-jobs-death
Author: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/

In the entry page, there IS a sub-section for Charis Tsevis's images but it'd be nice to source it on the image pages themselves.