Opening Salvo: The Great Meme War of 2018
Have you ever spent a great deal of time and effort into making a post, and watched it take flight, only to see it get swatted down by another user, or soft-censored by a Steemit developer? The intention behind this contest is to get people to express how ridiculous it is that this type of censorship exists on the Steemit UI of all places!
Eligibility
Eligible contestants will:
- Upvote this post.
- Resteem this post.
- Post MEME(s) in comments.
- Adhere to the guidelines.
Guidelines
- Avoid targeting fellow Steemians.
- Keep it clean, nothing vile, no nudity, etc.
- Five different prizes, for five different accounts.
- Feel free to enter as many times as you would like!
- Sponsors are not eligible to win, but may participate!
- Meme against Steemit's flagging, downvoting, reward policing etc.
Obviously, if your submissions are quality, the more of them that you submit, the greater are your chances to be picked for one of the five prizes.
Prizes!
1 = $11.00 (SBD) sponsored by: @thoughts-in-time
2 = $07.00 (SBD) sponsored by: @paradigmprospect
3 = $04.00 (SBD) sponsored by: @thoughts-in-time
4 = $02.00 (SBD) sponsored by: @thoughts-in-time
5 = $01.00 (SBD) sponsored by: @thoughts-in-time
(+) Mystery gifts!
What is a mystery gift?
Mystery gifts normally occur after the prize winners are announced. Have you ever watched a prize-based contest only to end up disagreeing with the results? Well that's where you come into play! Should that happen, then you can simply send SBD directly to the person whose work that you'd like to see rewarded. In the memo type: "Mystery Gift!".
Unless otherwise noted, @thoughts-in-time will sponsor all prizes.
If you would like to help out, send sbd for the prize you'd like to sponsor.
The winners are to be announced on or before March 31, 2018.
Do you want to donate to the war chest? If so send sbd earmarked 'war chest', and you'll be listed as a donor on the next salvo. Or if you host your own successful contest in favor of free speech on Steemit and send me the link, I will also list you as a donor, because it's a donation to the cause!
Donors become honorary members of FFF-SOS which is a decentralized foundation of freedom oriented Steem activists. Even if you do not donate, you can totally be a member of the 'Foundation for Free Speech on SteemitⓀ' just put the abbreviation in your about me, or location. If someone asks you about it, explain to them why you are a member! We shall know each other by our fancy, yet apt, initialism!
Hello @thabiggdogg, you seem to have a great talent with image editing, and gif creation. As previously discussed, if you'd like to submit an image that conforms to the guidelines set fourth in this contest, then you could be considered for one of the five prizes. Good luck!
Upvoted, resteemed and meme below
Ohmuhgurd, I love it!
I might take your idea and repost it,
but don't worry, I'm not eligible to win anything.
For anyone else reading, there are only three entries so far
that have proven themselves eligible according to the rules,
this post is one of them! Very powerful, very awesome!!!
Comment made on: March 7, 2018 (morning)
No worries, post away. Glad you like it
Macabre!
👍😎♨
Nice!
I like it! It both confuses, and amuses me, while conveying a jovial, and carefree attitude!
Well played @stadex!
My inner Data and Spock are just going to have to run to the
nearest Starbase to fetch some thermal inertial dampener fluid.
I just binge watched TNG the last week. I need my Trek😎
I too, am a big fan!
TNG is arguably the best of'em.
It's almost perfect!
This meme is one of the three conforming to the rules, we're going to be needing as many of these as possible in order to fight censorship on Steemit. The more the merrier!
respun for fun
Ok I would like a backstory on this one or please point me in the right direction. Thanks!
Sure, try this link here. It is one of many incidents, involving the same whale.
Hopefully I am not too late :)
I can't remember in which movie/anime I heard those words or something similar.
Edit: Can't resteem the post because it has over 7 days.
Nice one, you can upvote and resteem this one.
Winners will be announced Saturday, until then
submit as many memes as you please!
Can anyone relate? ;-)
Great memes, the closer you can make one that is anti Steemit censorship the greater chance you have at winning. Good luck!
@hardcorejoke nice meme, and very true too!
You are welcome to submit more if you like,
do you have any on the topic of censorship?
Ok, what the heck; here is my stab at it:
N1, that baby's got the mean mug locked down.
Next thing you know, he'll be working the crazy eyes!
This contest has been concluded,
click here to view the winning entries.
Submitted by @talesfrmthecrypt.
Funny picture @voluntsharenews. If you have any memes about the topic of censorship on Steemit feel free to submit them here in the comments for a chance to win! This contest will end on or before the 31st of March 2018. Please adhere to the eligibility, and guidelines to be considered for one of the five prizes.
Good Luck, and happy meme making!
So this isn't attacking @Haejin? Because this is EXACTLY what he does!!!!
Hello again @thabiggdogg!
It is not 'reward rape' when he is doing that to protect himself from people like you. Your mentality seems either; Socialist, Communist, or Marxist. In real life when someone makes more money than you, do you conspire to break into their house and rob them blind?
You gotta live and let live, there's always going to be someone who has more than you. That doesn't make you less, unless you think it does, and if you think it does, then your going to have a real rough road ahead.
Life isn't fair, people will excel in different areas based on their efforts, timing, and sometimes just plain ole dumb luck. You should be happy for people that are successful. If you were successful wouldn't you want people to be happy for you?
Just look at YouTube, people make really strange videos and some of them make a fortune. Do you spend all day stewing about how much you hate Poppy and her two minute videos that earn her a fortune?
I think you should focus your efforts here on Steemit pursuing ideas that you are passionate about. Topics and areas of interest where you can learn new things. If your going to hate on someone just because they are wealthy, there will always be someone to hate no matter where you go.
When you are envious or jealous of somebody, because they have something that you don't. All it does is drain your energy, and make you less effective, and less creative.
@Haejin has found his niche, and although I don't understand the meanings behind the patterns and waves that he's analyzing, apparently many people do, and they appreciate what he is bringing to the table.
Imagine if for one day only, you spent all of your time, and energy on something else; like finding your passion and niche. If you did, the likelihood of you stumbling upon it would dramatically increase! Just take a break find something that you think is really interesting.
Anywho, that's all I got. I hope that you two can squash your beef!
It is really? I am interesting to join and try it
Congratulations you are in!
Also, feel free to participate in the contest!
ALTERNATE VERSION HERE
하지만 지금은 내가 편지 H 조 숨어 있어 이후
I did an update not to target fellow Steemians. It looks professionally done, but I wouldn't have rewarded it, because this guy uncensored me more than once when I got soft-censored by a Steemit developer. I do know that he gets into down voting wars but I'm sure allot of that is retaliatory (self-defense). Sorry, feel free to try again! I'd like the focus to be on ridiculing the behavior of censorship on Steemit, not ridiculing fellow Steemians.
If it wasn't for @haejin's actions, this contest probably would not have been possible.
But @Haejin is the King of Censoring people on Steemit. Go read my blog.
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There seems to be a lot of people who get angry at successful Steemians. They put on their cop hats and try to be the reward poolice, and down vote simply because they are jealous. I wouldn't blame him if he's downvoting those people in self-defense.
You see the whole point here is to discourage the down voting behavior in general. Yet so long as down voting exist, people have no choice but to down vote back in self defense.
I'd encourage you to wear the FFF-SOS what we do is simply upvote the things we like, and ignore the things we don't. Or we try to change people's minds in the comments.
But if we were to focus on specific Steemians for this contest the whole thing would turn into an ugly mess. I want to focus on the idea, then once we get enough memes we can move onto phase two.
: - )
I know you can make another one. The first one you made was very professional looking, I was just an idiot for not making the rules clear in the first place. I must have edited the post like 50 times before I published it, then I just got sloppy and clicked post without thinking.
Again, I am sorry about that!
P.S. Try taking off that cop hat, being jelly doesn't suit you.
"We must keep going. His rewards are still way too high for what he presents." – thabiggdogg... and you wonder why he's downvoting you?
This works. I would discourage people from using this meme though, as it could be interpreted as a threat.
LOL
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How to join ? I like this contest 😐
It's very simple, please read the 'eligibility' and 'guideline' section above.
Good luck to you, and may the best meme win!
This post has received gratitude of 1.85% from @appreciator courtesy of @thoughts-in-time!
I noticed I did not express the intent of the contest in the guidelines. The guidelines have been updated to reflect that we are memeing against flagging, downvoting, -and-or- reward policing on Steemit.
Voluntaryists' View on Voting (for Government if any kind)
https://steemit.com/dmania/@kieranpearson/voluntaryist-views-voting-zg1hbmlh-j3i3c
Nice meme @kieranpearson! If you want to do one opposing flagging, downvoting, reward policing etc, or censorship on Steemit, you are more than welcome to be considered for the contest.
You got a 4.88% upvote from @postpromoter courtesy of @thoughts-in-time!
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Found this one on Steemit created by truth-be-told.
You can do this one if you are interested.
Thx, enter as many times as you like.
Winners to be announced on Saturday.
Focus is discouraging censorship on Steemit.