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So I use an adblock extension (uBlock Origin, to be exact) to browse KYM, because you pretty much need it, but that's beside the point. Using adblock, I've noticed that some of the images posted on the gallery don't seem to show up. You have stuff like this showing up:

To compare, here's how it looks without adblock:

It seems that this has to do with the URLs of the images; if the image name (the part with the extension) is "adX" (where X is a number), the adblock registers the image as an ad.

This is the link to the mentioned image. Is there any way that we could stop images from being blocked? Perhaps someone could tamper with their adblock so that the image links aren't blocked without unblocking the other ads? Or James could change the image address system in some way so that "ad" doesn't appear in the image names?

The GitHub pages for uBlock Origin are fantastic, including tons of documentation about adding exceptions to your adblocker. I'm not entirely sure how KYM's image hosting works, but you can prevent this blocking by adding the following as an exception:

*.kym-cdn.com/photos*

The * characters represent wildcards, and will whitelist any image URL from KnowYourMeme on its image servers. This should, in theory, work for your specific example, and any other image that happens to have the letter sequence "ad" in its address.

Unfortunately, changing KYM so these image addresses/filenames don't occur at all would be pretty problematic, because there are already hundreds that fit the criteria. I'm confident this is much easier.

I’m not entirely sure how KYM’s image hosting works, but you can prevent this blocking by adding the following as an exception:
*.kym-cdn.com/photos*

I tried that and… it didn't work.

However, I did find a way to stop this from happening:

• Open the settings for uBlock (either through the general extension options or clicking on the uBlock icon and clicking the grey bar on top of the menu)
• Check the box that says "I am an advanced user"
• Reload a KYM page
• Click the uBlock icon, which now has this matrix for blocking elements
• Make the setting for images green on either column
• Make the setting for "kym-cdn.com" green on either column
  And that should do it. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the help.

Being thanked for doing literally nothing is actually a pretty nice feeling.