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9GAG is an English online platform, on which users can upload and share pictures, gifs and videos. Under the mottoes Why so serious? and 9GAG is your best source of fun., its content does mainly consist of memes and funny posts.

9GAG was founded in 2008 and has since then reached over 22 million "likes" on Facebook and more than 3 million followers on Twitter.

Name
Co-Founder Ray Chan was asked about the story behind the website's name. He then quoted the famous line from Top Gun - “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you”.

Until February 2012, 9 posts ("gags") were shown per page; this fact is often used as a theory for how the website got its name.

Content

 * The majority of posted pictures, known as "memes", originate from different websites. Ray Chan, founder and owner of this site, explained:

„9GAG does not create memes or rage comics, but helps to spread them.“

- Ray Chan, Meld Magazine


 * Content is subdivided into the categories of Hot, Trending, Fresh, TV, NSFW, GIF, Poster, Game and a few others such as Girl, WTF and Cosplay.
 * Popular memes are, for example, Awkward Penguin, Confession Bear, Good Advise Duck, Success Kid, Bad Luck Brian, Overly Attached Girlfriend and First World Problems.
 * So called "Rage Comics" are often used to tell stories about everyday life and end with a humorous punchline
 * The website's content is upvoted, downvoted and commented by users.

Reception
9GAG has rank 212 (12/01/2015) on the Global Rank of most popular websites. 14.6% of its visitors come from the United states, followed by 10.4% from India and 6.6% from Germany. In April 2012, the News-Website AllThingsD published a statistics that calls 9GAG the most visited Meme-Website on the internet, before 4chan and reddit. The audience of 9GAG is dominated by males. 'Home' is described as the most used browsing location, followed by school and work.

4chan
Copying pictures, videos and text from websites like reddit and 4chan lead to a conflict between them in late 2011. At the same time, 9gaggers began referring to themselves as a "legion", which was an obvious copy of a post by a 4chan user. Despite the noticeable watermark at the bottom of every image on 9GAG, 4chan claims most of the content to originate from their website.

Cyber Bullying
At the beginning of 2012, several users of 4chan and 9GAG posted offensive pictures on the Facebook memorial page of Amanda Cummings, a girl that committed suicide because of cyber bullying. Pictures that had been posted on 9GAG itself were deleted immediately.