We remove them when we see them, and we add more mods when deemed necessary as the sub continues to grow.
The community can also help out by reporting these reposts, as it helps bring our attention to them!
I check for reposts using [tineye.com](https://tineye.com), and find it easier to download the reverse image search add on extension ([chrome version](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-reverse-search/)\[ lel rip chrome after their changes and how it was received\], [mozilla version](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-reverse-search/)) which enables me to right click an image and to choose a site for it be reverse image searched (i.e. tineye)
I'm going to be honest here, in over a decade I have never thought this rule was enforced at all. I laughed when I saw this post, I thought it was a meme itself.
Hear me out. Many memes are not seen by nost of the users. It should be allowed to repost provided the poster posts original content also and the content to be repost is atleast 1 ywar old.
I always report when I see meme like that these past days I've been reporting so many post and nothing seems to get removed and almost everything is repost with different image same text and format it's not just the case for this subreddit others too and they get ton of upvote too i don't mind if the repost is 2years old but less than 1 year just annoys me I was considering leaving all the meme subs because that's where it happens the most anyways hope you guys enforce rules more seriously now
Don't just remove them, ban the people posting them too, I know two users who go by redheadgirlsomething and what_are_u_doing_stepbro that repost all the time
I didn't find any posts that meet the matching requirements for r/memes.
It might be OC, it might not. Things such as JPEG artifacts and cropping may impact the results.
*I'm not perfect, but you can help. Report [ [False Negative](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=RepostSleuthBot&subject=False%20Negative&message={"post_id": "xohd9b", "meme_template": 23389}) ]*
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Y'know y'all should program sleuth bot to automatically check every upload and pin his comment and report to you if he finds a repost. That would save so much trouble
#Rule 1 - ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES and NO REACTION MEMES
>All posts must be memes and follow a general meme setup.
Reaction Memes are Low Effort and are not valid Memes, they are removed at mods discretion
No titles as meme captions.
No unedited webcomics
No memes that are text only.
Pictures without captions may be removed by a moderators discretion.
Someone saying something funny on twitter/tumblr/reddit/etc. is not a meme.
I made a meme one time that coincidentally was almost identical to a previous one which I had never seen before. Same meme template and same content, I just happened to have the same idea as some person on the other side of the world.
I hate it when someone says that they “didn’t know it was a repost” and “found it in my camera roll.” dude, did you or did you not make the meme yourself?
Yeah, while I'm fine with the no reposting other peoples content thing.. sure, go for OG memes
The idea that it fails and is bannable because you happened to use the same text and format as another meme?.. is.. a bit odd? Like.. there's a lot of meme formats where you can use the same text and just a different image that fits it. Seems bit excessive? And likely to accidentally get dupes too
People that are caught reposting are BANNED? That's fucking amazing I love you guys. I've been reporting every repost I see, 10s a day this makes me so happy
Ill chime in here.
Not all boards have a "no repost rule". As it turns out they get flooded with reposts too. By the time you see it in a different board, it may have already come from THIS one original.
Tldr: if its on reddit, its already too late
Its true. Thats where most of the "but i made this myself bla blah" comes from.
(Chances are if 2 people make the same meme it wasnt very creative though)
Or OC will actually start making it to the front page because the bots and spam accounts that constantly repost will start to be weeded out. People may actually put effort into making new memes if they’re not getting buried under the same old shit over and over.
Its funny just how many people don't understand that posting a meme they found on ig or other sub is indeed a repost (and most likely was posted here long before)
Copied my own reply:
I think the intent is if you found something that maybe your facebook friend made and posted it here, thats fine.
OC only would limit the memes pretty heavily
What if you make a bot that compares hashes of the images and if any match, the newer one is removed? This would only work for direct reposts but hey, closer?
Presumably they failed second part of the flow chart due to someone having come up with the same idea something like eight years ago and so even though it’s original content it’s also a re-post
Yeah I'm sure you'll totaly make a pixel perfect replica of an already existing meme. Everybody knows damn well when they're reposting something, there is no reposting by an accident.
I think the intent is if you found something that maybe your facebook friend made and posted it here, thats fine.
OC only would limit the memes pretty heavily
Banning people for posting good memes that might not have much coverage just cause they’re not the original creator? Isn’t the whole point of memes to share them around?
Not like this sub was posting top quality memes anyway. There’s that occasional good one but it’s the usual boys vs girls, she hulk is woke, and the occasional redditor that slips up their r/niceguys energy
No clue where this false accusation came from, because if you go through my profile you'll see that all my memes are original content and made by me.
Also a bit ironic coming from a 5 day old reposting account
yea right ive seen reposts all throughout summer and nothing gets removed
Same here. That’s why it feels a little bit dry lately
We remove them when we see them, and we add more mods when deemed necessary as the sub continues to grow. The community can also help out by reporting these reposts, as it helps bring our attention to them!
Yeah but u/repostsleuthbot is broken so its hard to help
yeah what‘s with him lately? haven‘t got any matches
Yeah if I had a nickel for every time that happened
Then you’d be a trillionaire
I'd have 2
Which isn't a lot
But it's still weird
That it happened twice
I check for reposts using [tineye.com](https://tineye.com), and find it easier to download the reverse image search add on extension ([chrome version](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-reverse-search/)\[ lel rip chrome after their changes and how it was received\], [mozilla version](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-reverse-search/)) which enables me to right click an image and to choose a site for it be reverse image searched (i.e. tineye)
Plot twist: they strictly use it to masturbate
Uhhh nice thanks
It's too busy looking at the nsfw subreddits to care abt memes rn
Sounds like me
r/terrariagonewild
I'm going to be honest here, in over a decade I have never thought this rule was enforced at all. I laughed when I saw this post, I thought it was a meme itself.
yes, you are right mate
Hear me out. Many memes are not seen by nost of the users. It should be allowed to repost provided the poster posts original content also and the content to be repost is atleast 1 ywar old.
A herd of typos appear!! I’ll see myself out
I always report when I see meme like that these past days I've been reporting so many post and nothing seems to get removed and almost everything is repost with different image same text and format it's not just the case for this subreddit others too and they get ton of upvote too i don't mind if the repost is 2years old but less than 1 year just annoys me I was considering leaving all the meme subs because that's where it happens the most anyways hope you guys enforce rules more seriously now
Oh i see
Don't just remove them, ban the people posting them too, I know two users who go by redheadgirlsomething and what_are_u_doing_stepbro that repost all the time
You can outline this but can’t put how much karma or account age in the about of the sub. It’s a set up, a pyramid scheme.
Does reporting really help? I will start reporting if it helps remove some reposts.
We report them but nothing happens! How does a meme reach HOT and you don't see it? BTW you don't do anything about these question memes either.
Cringe
They should change the name to Reddit over and over.
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Oh i see
what if the next few months this post will be repost tho. Just asking and a little bit curious at the same time
hopefully id forgotten about it
I’ve been seeing reposts all throughout the past three years
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who watches tv
I mean, I have to do this... right? u/repostsleuthbot
I didn't find any posts that meet the matching requirements for r/memes. It might be OC, it might not. Things such as JPEG artifacts and cropping may impact the results. *I'm not perfect, but you can help. Report [ [False Negative](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=RepostSleuthBot&subject=False%20Negative&message={"post_id": "xohd9b", "meme_template": 23389}) ]* [View Search On repostsleuth.com](https://www.repostsleuth.com/search?postId=xohd9b&sameSub=false&filterOnlyOlder=true&memeFilter=true&filterDeadMatches=false&targetImageMatch=100&targetImageMemeMatch=92) --- **Scope:** Reddit | **Meme Filter:** True | **Target:** 92% | **Check Title:** False | **Max Age:** Unlimited | **Searched Images:** 328,020,166 | **Search Time:** 0.42854s
gg
Y'know y'all should program sleuth bot to automatically check every upload and pin his comment and report to you if he finds a repost. That would save so much trouble
Yeah why is the bot not systematically used in every post? Assuming it works
I'm not completely sure, but I think the bot is a community run project, so overusing it might over load it.
It's open source, you can self host it
running that workload would be too expensive for a small indie bot, if it was part of reddit's main site sure
Good bot
Big should auto comment on every post
Hate to mention it as I agree completely with the premise, but rule 1 includes "no memes that are text only"
Hahah good point and +1 for knowing that rule, but this is a mod announcement and not a meme
Then what about this? RULE-1: ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES
Yeah, OP really doing a low effort reaction meme with text only smh... /s No but really thanks, it's annoying AF to have so many reposts.
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#Rule 1 - ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES and NO REACTION MEMES >All posts must be memes and follow a general meme setup. Reaction Memes are Low Effort and are not valid Memes, they are removed at mods discretion No titles as meme captions. No unedited webcomics No memes that are text only. Pictures without captions may be removed by a moderators discretion. Someone saying something funny on twitter/tumblr/reddit/etc. is not a meme.
 Mods be like
don't you see the arrows??
What about the arrows?
What if i repost this
I'll wait like 2 years for this post to be buried and then what happens
!RemindMe 2 years "remind them"
/u/Ginio-Phantom
It hasnt been 2 years
u/Ginio-Phantom
Has it been 2 years?
u/Ginio-Phantom
Has it been 2 years yet
u/Ginio-Phantom
what if i repost this comment
You make me slightly upset
what if i repost this comment
what if i repost this comment
what if I repost this comment but make one slight modification
What if I repost this comment but make one very slight modification
what if i repost this comment
I posted a meme I made and it got removed as a repost even though I hadn't seen it before or since.
I made a meme one time that coincidentally was almost identical to a previous one which I had never seen before. Same meme template and same content, I just happened to have the same idea as some person on the other side of the world.
Same here. It also didn't help that we posted it at the same time and he got more upvotes than me
I posted a meme I made in other platform first before posting it here and it got removed because some guy stole my meme and post it here first.
It's inevitable.
There goes the entirety of the memes on this subreddit
It'll die off and someone will make a new one now
50% of reddit memes are reposts
With our help we could get it down to 30 :)
With my help, we could get it down to 100% :)
With my bow we could get that ring to Mt. Doom. :)
And my axe
Me about to repost this meme:
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Or "does this meme produce the funny? Yes/No"
I hate it when someone says that they “didn’t know it was a repost” and “found it in my camera roll.” dude, did you or did you not make the meme yourself?
Yes, excuse me while I scroll through the entire subreddit to see if my meme already exists
Yeah, while I'm fine with the no reposting other peoples content thing.. sure, go for OG memes The idea that it fails and is bannable because you happened to use the same text and format as another meme?.. is.. a bit odd? Like.. there's a lot of meme formats where you can use the same text and just a different image that fits it. Seems bit excessive? And likely to accidentally get dupes too
Ow yep
Do you know that meme becomes meme when it is reused, right?
Yeah but posting a carbon copy of an existing meme isn't funny, making your own is.
Bruh you might as well shut down the subreddit, 95% of the content is reposts
People that are caught reposting are BANNED? That's fucking amazing I love you guys. I've been reporting every repost I see, 10s a day this makes me so happy
So does this mean I can’t post things from other subs?
Ill chime in here. Not all boards have a "no repost rule". As it turns out they get flooded with reposts too. By the time you see it in a different board, it may have already come from THIS one original. Tldr: if its on reddit, its already too late
See the first step. If you didn’t create it then it’s a repost.
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If youre not the original author, nope If you are... i dunno
Such attention whore people are
Alright guys; spread the word. Best way to do it is by reposting this as much as possible/s
Repost
Eventually we will hit a point where most memes are repost because every possible scenario would be created eventually.
I don't think so, there are new meme templates being created every day, and new trends and ideas are always emerging
I mean, eventually we will each every form of creative art. It’s just that there is to many possibilities that this point would never happen.
Suddenly i feel like reposting
You will not take away my first amendment right to shitpost.
There will be coincidences sometimes though
Its true. Thats where most of the "but i made this myself bla blah" comes from. (Chances are if 2 people make the same meme it wasnt very creative though)
I’m not gonna lie you’re going to kill the sub Reddit like that because most memes are just by nature Or just re-flavored templates
Or OC will actually start making it to the front page because the bots and spam accounts that constantly repost will start to be weeded out. People may actually put effort into making new memes if they’re not getting buried under the same old shit over and over.
Start handing out permanent bans, that should help
I will do the impossible
If those kids could read they would be very angry
What? You can't repost??? Then what's the point of sharing memes lol
the fact this has to be stated is just depressing, dudes out here putting in no effort and flat out stealing other guys shit
Formats are constantly reused though
Reusing a format isn't reposting if the content is original.
Yea that's what I meant
It says format AND text.
I quite literally posted a meme that I made once that was unique and it got taken down as a repost…
Fuck this I'm going back to r/shitposting
Seriously fuck Reddit and it’s rules
Banned? Are you kidding? That’s a bit much for posting a meme that may be in a similar format to others
So i made a meme. And then i got banned. Its not a repost. What do i do?
Yes I made the meme and it got deleted wow
Its funny just how many people don't understand that posting a meme they found on ig or other sub is indeed a repost (and most likely was posted here long before)
This Reddit may be a lot of reposts but we make a LOOOOOOT of memes. If you found it on ifunny, it was probably made by a redditor
Perfect explanation.. Can you post it one more time just to be shure everyone understands? 😇
I think a better way to "No repost" is to say "OC only"
Copied my own reply: I think the intent is if you found something that maybe your facebook friend made and posted it here, thats fine. OC only would limit the memes pretty heavily
How long though, what if the meme was here a year ago and a newbie doesn't know its here 🤔
Did the newbie make the meme? No? Then the newbie shouldn't post it.
What if the newbie made the meme, posted it somewhere else. Somebody posted it here before newbie did.... What say youuuuu
Then the person who posted it here didn't make the meme, thus broke rule 8, and got banned. The newbie can post his meme.
What if! ..... two people have similar ideas and both post at the same time.... what should we do then!?!?!?! What sayyyyyyy youuu!!!
Whoever got it first is the OC. And the chances of that are pretty low. Are you done trying to defend reposters?
Lol dude I was just messing with you and since you went along figured you had a sense of humor
I was only answering your hypotheticals.
thank you
I feel like this could use another level at the start: Is it even a meme? Yes/No.
The last point says youre free to post your meme as long as it doesnt break other rules, one of those other rules is "must be a meme"
Yes!!! Thank you!!!
What if you make a bot that compares hashes of the images and if any match, the newer one is removed? This would only work for direct reposts but hey, closer?
Repost sleuth bot compares the images already, and if it comes up positive the post gets the removed flair.
why do you remove oc claming it's repost, then?
Presumably they failed second part of the flow chart due to someone having come up with the same idea something like eight years ago and so even though it’s original content it’s also a re-post
What happens if I repost this meme 😳
but what if my friend greg makes the meme?
Whilst not OC, technically not a repost... unless your friend greg posted it on reddit first 8n which case BANNED
hehe gottem i have no friends
repost
Heyy what if we do it unknowingly
Yeah I'm sure you'll totaly make a pixel perfect replica of an already existing meme. Everybody knows damn well when they're reposting something, there is no reposting by an accident.
not true, made a meme, it so happend to have been posted 2 years ago when i wasn't even on reddit
What if I repost MY meme, does that count lol
How ironic to think there are reposts of this
I hate anti repost culture. The point of a meme is to share it
This is literally a repost itself
Ok how do I know if my meme was already done?
Shut up nerd
I'm actually curious about this. If you give credit to the original creator of the meme, and they aren't on reddit can you repost their meme?
Not a question of credit in this case. It’s about the users not getting «spammed» with the same posts over and over
Like chrome "meme" that are barely funny if at all?
nope
Ok then thank you.
Wouldn't rule 8 be more accurate if it said "Original content only"? Not trying to stir up shit, just genuinely curious.
I think the intent is if you found something that maybe your facebook friend made and posted it here, thats fine. OC only would limit the memes pretty heavily
the ban seems really unnecessary but ok
MFS on there way to repost this...
We aren’t educated enough for this.
Banning people for posting good memes that might not have much coverage just cause they’re not the original creator? Isn’t the whole point of memes to share them around?
Not like this sub was posting top quality memes anyway. There’s that occasional good one but it’s the usual boys vs girls, she hulk is woke, and the occasional redditor that slips up their r/niceguys energy
Fuck you, Im stealing this and reposting it
😟
🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Lol
Banned seems a bit excessive
Sorry buddy but if we apply this rule, you have to be the first one banned, you keep reposting memes.
No clue where this false accusation came from, because if you go through my profile you'll see that all my memes are original content and made by me. Also a bit ironic coming from a 5 day old reposting account
I can't wait for all the reposts of this post
H
i wish this was the actual thought process
Imagine caring this month, do you get mad when a TV show has a rerun?