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I noticed a lot of images are only viewed or upvoted because they are softcore porn. I often see unfiltered nude pornography slip through moderation when images are uploaded and people enjoy it including me. Tumblr lost out big because they blocked porn which is in the first place a big part of fan art and fandoms and meme culture. This site derives significant economic benefit from allowing porn because it drives traffic and is clearly what users want and what people are posting either in a softcore or sometimes hardcore fashion. If the main argument is "we want to be child friendly" well, you can see how well that worked for Tumblr, so it's fine if KnowYourMeme does not want to make money. I like porn and it has everything to do with memes so just allow it and get with the times.

Edit: Have you seen some of the mod's choice memes? Coomers? Who's getting the best head? You guys even put the thumbnails of these memes at the top of the site. Just saying a lot of you seem to want porn but seem hesitant to take that leap of flat out allowing it. Just take the leap.

If the mods allowed porn this site would go from meme documentation to another rule34.xxx or e621 overnight.

Alternate option: separate the nsfw pics to a separate gallery for each entry, including trending

If the memes surrounding porn are more popular than the memes surrounding humor, then that would mean that our site is biased and inaccurate in its documentation of memes, as we'd be ignoring the meme growth of porn. And even then, we still manage to have softcore porn on our site that's more popular than the jokes.

FunnyJunk already allows porn, and last I checked they are an incredibly popular meme posting site. If you want to call FunnyJunk names for allowing it you can but that doesn't take away their success and impact in meme culture that this site could also have if we allowed porn. By blocking porn we're giving FunnyJunk users that KnowYourMeme would otherwise have, and excluding memes that we otherwise could document.

On all counts blocking porn is something unique to KnowYourMeme that Tumblr suffered for doing, FunnyJunk benefited from not doing, and goes against the nature of documenting memes given the overwhelming number of porn memes. KnowYourMeme needs users and relevance to meme culture in order to survive so it seems completely illogical to block those very things with this unnecessary no porn rule.

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