Why does ifunny hate kids

Created in , iFunny describes itself as a "community for meme lovers and viral memes around the Internet. Yet on August 7, the FBI arrested an year-old Ohio man who allegedly threatened to shoot federal law enforcement officers in a post on iFunny. And this past Friday, federal agents arrested a year-old Chicago man for threatening to kill people at a women's reproductive health clinic in a post on iFunny. In the past year, the online message boards Gab and 8chan , both rife with racist or anti-Semitic messages, have faced scrutiny for their roles as homes to extremists who carried out mass shootings in Pittsburgh, California, New Zealand and El Paso.

Read More. But extremism is not exclusive to those sites. And the fact that extremist threats came on a meme site is not out of the ordinary. Since the shootings in Dayton and El Paso early this month, there have been 27 arrests in 26 instances across the US by law enforcement. These came in the form of alleged online threats, texts and posts on a number of social media platforms.

Still, despite Hankes' expertise on online extremism, he said he had not heard of iFunny until these recent arrests. That speaks to a broader problem with online extremism -- "it's really diffuse," he said. Two arrests for threats this month. Servers drop 8Chan, website linked to El Paso shooting Overall, iFunny's content is not all that different from mainstream internet meme sites like Reddit or 9GAG.

Users can click on links in the "memes catalog" along the left side of the homepage featuring general topics that skew toward a young male audience, including Cars, Gaming, Girls, and Sports. This app will turn a kid who get A's and B's into a kid who gets F's and maybe a D now and then. My ex-friend, went from a smart and kind kid to being a straight F student who watches porn daily. I only had the app for a couple of seconds, and I realized, "This is not what kids in my school said it was.

Read my mind. Kid, 11 years old April 1, Lots of talk about sex and stuff. But occasionally there's a picture of an inspiring quote. Lot's of bad words. This title contains: Positive Messages. Positive role models. Teen, 14 years old Written by No Name, for real. November 17, Stupid apps only talent is to be crude, and offensive. Teen, 14 years old Written by Haramboi33 April 27, Teen, 17 years old Written by iwanttonoonmyself April 23, Great App with a few catches The Bad please read the bottom.

Now im not going to lie as of there are so many racist people its insane. I read alot of reviews talking about porn. BUT if you go to collective around 11 pm-3 am est you can sometimes see people kill themselves, shoot other people, shoot animals, etc etc. If your son gets lot of right wing memes. Kid, 12 years old March 18, Really good app Most porn-related images are flagged and reported immediately, so nothing really bad there.

A lot of the posts are really funny, but some of the posts are racist and sexist, so it may not be appropriate for some people. Teen, 13 years old Written by Dat boi heheehe March 5, Meme stealer Steals memes from other sources. Teen, 14 years old Written by Dallas Methvin March 1, Great for right wingers If your a right wing racist this app is for you, you like guns?

Get it. You don't like the democrats? It's a good app for tweens and up but parents don't understand that kids actually find this stuff funny. Teen, 17 years old Written by hellnah October 26, Teen, 14 years old Written by iktf October 25, Great for funny pictures, not for everyone It's a great app to find funny pictures, although some of the content can contain explicit content or meanings.

Teen, 13 years old Written by ifunnyisbadlol67 March 18, Teen, 16 years old Written by alex February 6, Porn, Politics, and More! I joined iFunny around late early Back then it was the golden days -- full of memes, original content, and funny posts.

However, when the election came around it became a toxic wasteland. The app contains multitudes of different factions, all vying for the others' elimination. There are a multitude of themed accounts as well, ranging from the Deep Web all the way to Game of Thrones. While on the surface iFunny may seem a pathetic excuse for an app, the underworld is often entertaining to watch.

However, beware, for the one thing the features do represent for the app is the art of the meme steal. You may find stolen memes across the internet, but the largest collection of them is on iFunny. Watermarks will not save you. At its very core, iFunny's central meme economy is entirely based off of stolen memes, and if you want to find posts from all over the internet, this is the place for you.

Person1: Hey, I heard you downloaded iFunny. Person2: Yeah, but I'm about to delete it. The features aren't that funny and collective is a mine field Person1: Yeah, don't waste your time with features, here are a couple accounts to subscribe to, and branch out from there. Person3, in the background: Goddamnit iFunny, I stole that meme first!

I should be the one who gets featured, not the guy who already had ! Stolen memes and scribbled over watermarks. When your memes get stole the thief gets featured.

Every day it features "funny" photos.