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The 2024 Know Your Meme UI Update Controversy refers to an ongoing series of updates to the Know Your Meme website, intended to introduce a new user interface (UI) to the site, which have started some time during 2024 and been first published on April of that year. This UI redesign has been significantly controversial, with a vocal portion of the site's user base, including community moderators, reacting negatively to the changes, and posting public critiques of the redesign.

History

Prior to 2024, various UI updates had been attempted by Know Your Meme on several occasions, such as the early months of 2021, but these changes received significant backlash from the community and were usually scrapped after a few months. Some time around April of 2024, the current UI update was pushed to Know Your Meme with minimal advance announcement. This interface was thoroughly criticized by many users, with the main points of contention being:
- a seemingly corporate-sanitized interface, prioritizing advertisement and standardization over practicality;
- many bugs, making the experience on this interface tedious at best;
- several bugs permanently affecting the old interface as a result of the new one being implemented;
- a general lack of communication from the people in charge of implementing the new UI;
- the option for registered users to browse the website via its old interface, which was partially rendered pointless by the new interface being randomly imposed anyway after a few days at most.


A comparison image showing the old UI design on the left and the new UI design on the right.

Spread

On April 11th, 2024, user DLD493v2 posted a thread[1] to the Know Your Meme forums titled "New site layout?", complaining about the updated UI. The thread quickly garnered attention from the Know Your Meme community members, who shared their own primarily negative reaction to the layout changes, bringing up major technical problems, and helping users who were dissatisfied with the changes revert to the old site design. The thread has gathered over 19,000 views as of November 2024.


A screenshot of the Know Your Meme forum thread posted by DLD493v2.

Several users of Know Your Meme also uploaded screenshots to the Know Your Meme entry's picture gallery, documenting some technical problems they encountered with the UI redesign and commenting on some removed functionalities, with some users complaining of how the redesign resembled the pattern of UI designs that were widely seen as being the result of enshittification.


A GIF documenting notable differences between the old and new layout that hinders usability.
An image documenting the extreme scaling of a low-resolution GIF on the new layout, and comparing it to the original layout which preserves the original size.

Other users uploaded original content to the gallery to voice displeasure with the redesign, regularly gaining a high volume of upvotes and entering the top positions of the Trending Images gallery. One of the earliest instances[2], uploaded on May 20th, 2024 by user TheHolyEmpress, garnered 80 net upvotes and over 5,800 total views as of mid-November 2024. Another meme[3] uploaded on August 8th by entry moderator Triplem received 170 net upvotes and over 6,800 views.


A variant of the "Anime Girl Hiding From a Terminator" meme. The Terminator is captioned as "The new KYM site layout everyone is complaining about", and the anime girl is captioned as "Me who still has the old layout".
A variant of the "Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen" meme, with the caption "Stop trying to make the new UI happen, it's not going to happen".

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WELCOME TO KYM'S NEW UI WHERE THE PROPORTIONS ARE MADE UP AND THE FEEDBACKS DON'T MATTER imgflip.com

на Know Your Meme AM I OUT OF TOUCH? Know Your Meme NO, IT'S THE USERS WHO ARE WRONG
Making their Ul worse for literally no good reason redart Know Your Meme

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2024 Know Your Meme UI Update Controversy

2024 Know Your Meme UI Update Controversy

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About

The 2024 Know Your Meme UI Update Controversy refers to an ongoing series of updates to the Know Your Meme website, intended to introduce a new user interface (UI) to the site, which have started some time during 2024 and been first published on April of that year. This UI redesign has been significantly controversial, with a vocal portion of the site's user base, including community moderators, reacting negatively to the changes, and posting public critiques of the redesign.

History

Prior to 2024, various UI updates had been attempted by Know Your Meme on several occasions, such as the early months of 2021, but these changes received significant backlash from the community and were usually scrapped after a few months. Some time around April of 2024, the current UI update was pushed to Know Your Meme with minimal advance announcement. This interface was thoroughly criticized by many users, with the main points of contention being:
- a seemingly corporate-sanitized interface, prioritizing advertisement and standardization over practicality;
- many bugs, making the experience on this interface tedious at best;
- several bugs permanently affecting the old interface as a result of the new one being implemented;
- a general lack of communication from the people in charge of implementing the new UI;
- the option for registered users to browse the website via its old interface, which was partially rendered pointless by the new interface being randomly imposed anyway after a few days at most.



A comparison image showing the old UI design on the left and the new UI design on the right.



Spread

On April 11th, 2024, user DLD493v2 posted a thread[1] to the Know Your Meme forums titled "New site layout?", complaining about the updated UI. The thread quickly garnered attention from the Know Your Meme community members, who shared their own primarily negative reaction to the layout changes, bringing up major technical problems, and helping users who were dissatisfied with the changes revert to the old site design. The thread has gathered over 19,000 views as of November 2024.



A screenshot of the Know Your Meme forum thread posted by DLD493v2.



Several users of Know Your Meme also uploaded screenshots to the Know Your Meme entry's picture gallery, documenting some technical problems they encountered with the UI redesign and commenting on some removed functionalities, with some users complaining of how the redesign resembled the pattern of UI designs that were widely seen as being the result of enshittification.


A GIF documenting notable differences between the old and new layout that hinders usability. An image documenting the extreme scaling of a low-resolution GIF on the new layout, and comparing it to the original layout which preserves the original size.



Other users uploaded original content to the gallery to voice displeasure with the redesign, regularly gaining a high volume of upvotes and entering the top positions of the Trending Images gallery. One of the earliest instances[2], uploaded on May 20th, 2024 by user TheHolyEmpress, garnered 80 net upvotes and over 5,800 total views as of mid-November 2024. Another meme[3] uploaded on August 8th by entry moderator Triplem received 170 net upvotes and over 6,800 views.


A variant of the "Anime Girl Hiding From a Terminator" meme. The Terminator is captioned as "The new KYM site layout everyone is complaining about", and the anime girl is captioned as "Me who still has the old layout". A variant of the "Stop Trying to Make Fetch Happen" meme, with the caption "Stop trying to make the new UI happen, it's not going to happen".



Relevant Examples


T My Know Your Meme wh M WELCOME TO KYM'S NEW UI WHERE THE PROPORTIONS ARE MADE UP AND THE FEEDBACKS DON'T MATTER imgflip.com
на Know Your Meme AM I OUT OF TOUCH? Know Your Meme NO, IT'S THE USERS WHO ARE WRONG Making their Ul worse for literally no good reason redart Know Your Meme

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Nobody here wants the new UI. Not the users, not the moderators, not the administrators. What does it take, really, for us all to reach the rotted brain of the one idiotic corporate executive that's still pushing for this shit?

Can't we just tell get it to them that no, this is not going to bring investment or profit or growth? It's just going to kill the whole site.

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