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History
Features
Community
Overview
Key facts & relationships
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- Founded
- 2009; 17 years ago (2009)
- Owner
- MediaLab AI, Inc.
- Area served
- Worldwide (except Indonesia, North Korea, and the United Kingdom)
- Available in
- English
- Commercial
- Yes
- Created by
- Alan Schaaf
Topics to explore
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Overview
- Image sharing
- Image host Image hosting service
- Alan Schaaf
- Viral Viral phenomenon
- Memes Internet meme
History
- Athens, Ohio
- Ohio University
- Computer science
- Web hosting Web hosting service
- Amazon Web Services
- San Francisco
- TechCrunch
- Terms of service
- Link rot
- Tumblr
- Sex workers Sex worker
- Information Commissioner's Office
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Ripple Ripple (payment protocol)
Features
- Image macros Image macro
- Huffington Post The Huffington Post
- GIF
- WebM
- MP4
- IOS
- Android Android (operating system)
Community
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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Important terminology
images users image gallery community schaaf 2009 service reddit announced 2015 accounts alan introduced also hosting created founded viral company
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imgur | Area served | Worldwide (except Indonesia, North Korea, and the United Kingdom) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | Available in | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | Commercial | Yes | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | Created by | Alan Schaaf | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | Founded | 2009; 17 years ago (2009) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | Launched | February 23, 2009; 17 years ago (2009-02-23) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | Owner | MediaLab AI, Inc. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | Registration | Optional | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | Type of site | Image hosting service | 1.00 | infobox |
| Imgur | URL | imgur.com | 1.00 | infobox |
| Huffington Post | instance of | Images from the gallery are often later posted to social news sites | 0.80 | text |
| Imgur | related to 2017 data breach | On November | 0.60 | section |
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