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I, for one, welcome our new image hosting masters

Taft — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:50:09 -0800

"We tried to pick images that quickly became popular, generated hundreds of thousands of views, were interesting, and/or somehow changed the Internet as we knew it." Imgur has become the standard among social news and media websites for sharing images. With the weight of 20 billion annual views, Imgur presents The Best Images of 2010. (Anti-memesters beware, the list is full of 'em)

By: Gator

Gator — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:00:02 -0800

Anti-memesters beware, the list is full of 'em Which makes sense, since Imgur was created by a Redditor.

By: jontyjago

jontyjago — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:02:03 -0800

Well fuck me, what have I been doing on the internet all year? I don't recall having seen any of these.

By: jontyjago

jontyjago — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:04:58 -0800

But I'm happy to discover I have a trustworthy beard.

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:05:25 -0800

The #1 image of the year goes to Keanu Reeves. This image became a huge Internet meme after being released, and is one of the most popular images of all time. What a revolting development.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:05:45 -0800

1 for 10... and I guess what they really mean is the 10 images that where the most popular, which of course s different that "best". I kinda liked the old ladies one though.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:05:54 -0800

Riley the Birthday Dog looks like a Muppet With Human Eyes. Just saying.

By: doublehappy

doublehappy — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:06:39 -0800

~~I fucking hate memes.~~ You can stand right the fuck there and wait for the wasp to finish its business.

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:10:20 -0800

blucevalo: What a revolting development. That's a terrible thing to say. Keanu Reeves is a stellar guy and a great action flick actor.

By: tigrefacile

tigrefacile — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:13:34 -0800

Last time I was stung by a wasp was the day my mother died. That was a bad day.

By: wayland

wayland — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:14:21 -0800

Oh my god. That dog comic.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:23:43 -0800

I hate that picture of Keanu because he's a whole two month's younger than me and he looks like that and I look like your dad.

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:25:15 -0800

most popular, which of course s different that "best". Not on the internet. TEXT 50503 TO A HUGE CORPORATION TO VOTE FOR MY PROJECT!! CROWDSOURCING!!!!1 AMAZON STUDIOS!!!!!onespittle

By: adipocere

adipocere — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:27:04 -0800

I kind of love the meme inspired by Keanu, whose flat affect lends itself to both the appearance of depression when not onscreen shooting something as well as the kind of facial linelessness that feeds into the immortality trope, the two recombining into a narrative of a man who got the immortality he asked for but could not enjoy it. Instead, he's gets a sandwich. He's eaten that particular blend of sandwich thousands of times since the sandwich concept came around and he knows that he'll have to have it again and again, while everyone he loves dies around him. You don't get to 500,000 years without a few personal tragedies.

By: codacorolla

codacorolla — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:45:28 -0800

I hit like 50% of having seen those. I don't really hang out on reddit or dig though.

By: seawallrunner

seawallrunner — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:46:12 -0800

the dog story [ tears ]

By: Ad hominem

Ad hominem — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:51:24 -0800

Keanu approves What is awesome about Keanu is that he only has one outfit.

By: anti social order

anti social order — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:51:48 -0800

Well fuck me, what have I been doing on the internet all year? Not visiting reddit.com. We tried to pick images that ... somehow changed the Internet as we knew it. That's the funniest thing on that page.

By: mrnutty

mrnutty — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:10:44 -0800

Oh my god. That dog comic. Yeah, who the fuck would treat their dog like that?

By: egypturnash

egypturnash — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:12:51 -0800

I feel like the beard image needs to have "The Chaplin" on the very left to create a balance with "The Hitler" as the apex of "disastrous".

By: cmoj

cmoj — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:21:05 -0800

I can not only recognize that the movie Happiness* is a comedy, but I can laugh heartily at it. But then show me a shitty comic about some asshole (with an untrustworthy beard) abandoning his dog and rooms get all dusty and shit.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:25:39 -0800

Speaking of free image hosts that are popular on Reddit, I've seen a lot of people using min.us, which I rather liked myself after I linked to one of their galleries in a recent post. But after I found out they ripped their design off of an open source alternative (Dropmocks.com) with minimal crediting, the shine came off a bit. And after the founder spammed that post with press-releasey comments, and *then* posted a spammy AskMe after I'd already messaged him to cut it out, I decided against using them in the future. If you ever need an instant gallery-maker like that, just use Dropmocks -- it works the same, doesn't have ads, and won't spam Mefi with press releases whenever you link to them.

By: vibrotronica

vibrotronica — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:29:26 -0800

Keanu Reeves is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

By: cmoj

cmoj — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:30:37 -0800

*oops. Happiness is about rape and pedophilia, mostly.** **Do not take out of context.

By: sonic meat machine

sonic meat machine — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:37:11 -0800

DON'T READ THE DOG COMIC

By: porpoise

porpoise — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:06:58 -0800

I'm sorry to hear that octothorpe - I guess you needed to have one of your parents have been Asian. Don't worry though, when you're both 70, he's going to look 210. For consolation right now, though, he looks absolutely awful in Street Kings.

By: tustinrick

tustinrick — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:18:22 -0800

i have been stung once by a wasp, around the neck area, and still remember that extreme stinging. yea, by a M F wasp( not allowed to use that M F word), and the M F wasp did not die afterwords, like a bee.

By: le morte de bea arthur

le morte de bea arthur — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:33:42 -0800

Wasps (common wasps, that is) do in fact pollinate flowers; they're just not as single-minded about it as bees are. And then of course there are the vast unsung majority - the parasitic wasps - which do a wonderful job keeping various crop-eating nasties under control.

By: bitteroldman

bitteroldman — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:33:46 -0800

I was looking at this one, but because of the size of my monitor, didn't realize that I was only looking at half of it. "Interesting," I thought. Then I continued to scroll down to look at the rest of the images and my eyes just popped out when I realized that this photo continued. It's not a mind-blowingly awesome picture necessarily, but it's very good. Fun and sad at the same time. Remininding us of the limited time we have on this planet, but if we're lucky, still enough time to do good things, nurture relationships and grow with each other.

By: EmGeeJay

EmGeeJay — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:37:10 -0800

yea, by a M F wasp( not allowed to use that M F word) Nah dude, it's okay. You can totally do that on The Internet.

By: longdaysjourney

longdaysjourney — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:16:49 -0800

I hate that picture of Keanu because he's a whole two month's younger than me and he looks like that and I look like your dad. This is a man on the cusp of fifty. Fifty! I can't help but wonder if he has curiously aging self-portrait hidden away in the attic, although probably it's just a personal chef and a trainer living up there.

By: Sal and Richard

Sal and Richard — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:29:22 -0800

Does anyone know where I can find the story on the photo of the 3 old ladies?

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:39:32 -0800

This is a man on the cusp of fifty. Woah!

By: liza

liza — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:42:21 -0800

that dog cartoon must be full of allergens. *sob*

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:49:57 -0800

I read the dog comic, and was all, "Well that was trite and manipulative and dumb, jeez" Then I proceeded to snuggle my cats for like a half hour and tearfully tell them how much I love them even the cat that farts all the time

By: rosebuddy

rosebuddy — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:58:37 -0800

Keanu looks quite good for 46 (not quite cusp of 50), and he's going to keep looking good for many years to come, I think, but that scraggly beard doesn't completely hide the fact that his jawline is softening. Gravity happens. (If someone can provide a reasonably recent photo of a clean-shaven Keanu that shows a chiseled jawline and no signs of sag, that's OK because then I'll have a very nice picture to look at while I weep inside at being proven wrong.)

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:00:06 -0800

I was on reddit this year.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:10:57 -0800

"We tried to pick images that ... somehow changed the Internet as we knew it." I love how after people decide the Internet is so vast that they should filter it all and show us only the best stuff, those same people seem to devolve to the point where the "Internet" is only the stuff they've filtered. Good "best of" list for their tiny little island, but if the best "The Internet" can offer is an LOL captioned Keanu pic.........

By: alidarbac

alidarbac — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:42:50 -0800

There's ten times as much pathos in the portrait of the two women with their earlier portrait behind them than there is in the douchey artist emoting over the dog he neglected.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:27:47 -0800

So many Sad Keanu parodies, and nobody has answered the most important question. What kind of sandwich?

By: Slap*Happy

Slap*Happy — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:30:40 -0800

Lolcats makes you point and laugh... loldogs makes you cry and wish you were a better person.

By: the noob

the noob — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:41:04 -0800

OH MY GOD, A DOG WITH A PARTY HAT!!!! Aaaand this is why reddit is now such shit.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:57:40 -0800

I know, the noob. We'd never do something like post funny pictures of cats to the front page, ever.

By: IvoShandor

IvoShandor — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:44:04 -0800

Anti-memesters This is a thing? people are bored.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:02:39 -0800

I was looking at this one, but because of the size of my monitor, didn't realize that I was only looking at half of it. Same here. That's because it said "image," not "images." They repeat that mistake with Keanu and I don't care for it. I don't care for it at all.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:05:07 -0800

ps: I call him Canoe. pps: Who else dwelt on the advert between #4 and #3 trying to figure out why it was such a good image?

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:09:56 -0800

What is awesome about Keanu is that he only has one outfit. Do I have permission from the mods to link that photo of Keanu trying to have a sneaky power-puke out of the car door while it's waiting at traffic lights? I think he's wearing that outfit.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:26:05 -0800

I saw a shiny black wasp, that looked something like a special forces airship, seemingly trapped in a spider web; struggling, then succombing to a quiet fatigue. The spider came out to retrieve his prey, the wasp grabbed him, gave him a few quick bites, and then flew away carrying the twitching body.

By: A Thousand Baited Hooks

A Thousand Baited Hooks — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:38:00 -0800

The wasp probably took the spider away so it could lay eggs in its body, leaving the spider paralysed by venom while the wasp larvae hatch and chew their way through its organs.

By: adamdschneider

adamdschneider — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 23:50:23 -0800

The old lady on the right is the spitting image of Buddy Hackett in the last photo.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:07:47 -0800

The wasp probably took the spider away so it could lay eggs in its body, leaving the spider paralysed by venom while the wasp larvae hatch and chew their way through its organs. We get paper wasps everywhere, but the general population has learnt to live with them, along with the hundreds of other harmful beasties poised to strike at any time. But a much rarer site over here is one of those spider hunting wasps. They'd probably be the most physically imposing insect I've seen, on top of the loud droning noise of their flight. You can feel the wind from their wings from easily 2 feet away. They are not stop action, too, always looking for spiders. I believe our local one hunts for ground dwelling wolf spiders. Once I saw one fly by carrying an absolutely fuck-off big wolf spider, I had to do a triple take. A fuck-off big, droning insect carrying a fuck-off big spider with the wind of its wings beating against my face. Quite a memorable experience.

By: ymgve

ymgve — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:14:15 -0800

I really wonder which entities wanted the piracy picture taken down. Maybe I'm crediting the MPAA with too much intelligence, but I'd assume they were smart enough to recognize their lack of a case here.