History YMMV / KnowYourMeme

** Due to the elsewhere-mentioned dislike for [[TheScrappy soyjak memes]], KYM has a rivalry with the now-defunct [[Website/FourChan /qa/]] and it's SpiritualSuccessor website [=soyjak.party=] (a website that's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]]). The board often prepared raids against KYM where they would spam soyjak memes, to the point that /qa/nons are practically TheUsualAdversaries for KYM gallery moderators.
** At least on KYM users’ end, there seems to be an attempt as fostering one with Website/{{Reddit}}, with several trending posts mocking the stereotype of Reddit users being incompetent neckbeards. [[UnknownRival Reddit however very rarely talks about them]], so there isn't much attention coming from Reddit to further that rivalry yet.

** [=KnowYourMeme=] is a softcore porn site[[labelnote:Explanation]]The site sees a rather large amount of sexually suggestive images uploaded onto it on a daily basis. While there ''are'' regulations that prevent users from uploading anything actually explicit (i.e. tits or genitals) or bordering on such, the NSFW material on the site is frequently suggestive enough to qualify as light erotica. Obviously, this hasn't gone unnoticed, and jokes about KYM experiencing NetworkDecay by focusing more on erotic material aren't uncommon.[[/labelnote]]

** At least on KYM users’ end, there seems to be an attempt as fostering one with Website/{{Reddit}}, with several trending posts mocking the stereotype of Reddit users being incompetent neckbeards. There has not seem to be much attention coming from Reddit to further that rivalry yet.

** [[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Cortex]] the Forbidden One[[labelnote:Explanation]]A RunningGag among site users that started to gain traction in early 2020. Originally a picture of Dr. Neo Cortex (specifically from ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity'') with a [[SmugSmiler shit-eating grin]] and his [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS giant N on his forehead]] fully visible, it started being used as a euphemistic implication for [[NWordPrivileges a very bad word starting with the letter N]]. Then, people started editing the N on Cortex's forehead with different letters, and subsequently using those edits and the original image to spell out words, whether they be the aforementioned bad word, or something else entirely, like "ginger" (complete with Cortex getting a ginger hair color makeover). The gallery containing the images ended up trending on the top of the site's top galleries for quite a while, and it currently remains a fan favorite.[[/labelnote]]

** Due to the VocalMinority opinion on feminism or social justice topics, a number of commenters have little tolerance for the social justice spheres on Website/{{Tumblr}} or Website/{{Twitter}} and other such sites (read above on AcceptableTargets).

* AmericansHateTingle:
** In a site-vs-site way rather than in terms of countries. "30 year old Boomer" found quite a bit of purchase on 4chan and imageboards in general, and had a warm reception in other sites as well. KYM's userbase, however, did not find it nearly as humorous, considering it another overdone Wojak that's cracking a joke that isn't even funny to begin with. Every time it's frontpaged, it usually gets downvoted into oblivion or barely breaking even, and users from the popular to the unpopular universally complain about it.
-->'''Don:''' The boomer meme seems to be a hit everywhere else. [[LampshadeHanging Not sure why it isn't welcome here]].
** In a similar vein as the above, the "Soyjak" meme is widespread across many parts of the internet and might be one of the most popular spin-offs of of Wojak. But many KYM users see it as the epitome of everything wrong with Wojak; due to both being a "thing I don't like" meme and so commonly posted all over the internet -- including KYM! This is somewhat downplayed by how even many 4chan users have grown to resent it.

* CreatorsPet:
** The Fine Bros WebVideo/{{React}} videos often get put on the front page, even though the community keeps downvoting them. Also counts as AcceptableTargets.
** For articles on Advice Animals, most of the time, the content will make the front page (even with little spread outside of Reddit) and will irritate the community, and if an article of the sort is ''confirmed'', users are annoyed even more. Some Advice Animals are not subject to this treatment, but most of them are.
** Website/{{Twitter}} hashtag movements and a majority of Reddit memes. They get added every other week, but are almost never substantial enough to be confirmed and the community (and the internet in general) despises them.
** Creator/DonaldTrump. It's certainly NotHyperbole to say that a new page is created literally every time the man does something noteworthy, to the point where numerous Trump-related articles can pop up in a single day. Everyone, even the site's right-wing users, have grown exasperated about it.
** The video app [=TikTok=] and the memes its community produces are arguably even more despised than the above-mentioned Reddit and Twitter memes combined, especially since said memes rarely last for more than a week. And yet in spite of these factors, the staff frontpages [=TikTok=] memes almost ''daily''. As one might expect, many users are sick of the constant barrage of [=TikTok=] frontpages, to the point where the site's propensity to frontpage the app's memes has become a meme in and of itself among frequent users.
** Reddit Moments (formerly KYM Collector Bot) is perceived by the userbase as an unnecessary solution to the nonexistent problem of "better archiving memes", since all it does is flood the website with barely relevant content from popular subreddits, drowning out posts by actual users. Fittingly, the administrators ignored complaints and instead ''increased'' the reach of the bot, to the point it uploaded over ''700'' images a day on its own at one point. It seems like the administration has caught on, since they shut the bot off sometime in late April 2020, but only after it had posted over 232,000 images, the majority of which have next-to-no views. It was reactivated in September that year and while it uploads a more manageable ~400 images per day, user still have no love for it. While users have the option of filtering out posts by the bot, lurkers have no such luxury.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** The Bad Luck Brian image macro has become the community's poster child for a legitimate meme that's been ignored by the mods in favor of fads or {{Forced Meme}}s. The profile image of BLB itself lampshades it! Impressive, considering BLB was initially utterly hated by the community.
** Super Robo Jesus is considered to be the MemeticBadass of Deadpooled Memes because of how the article is SoBadItsGood.
** {{ComicBook/Deadpool}} is treated by the community as the site's unofficial mascot.
** '''DON''', so much so he ''himself became a meme''.

* TheScrappy: In 2019, the Belle Delphine image gallery got this treatment, [[EliminationHoudini for refusing to disappear]], even weeks after she herself has fallen out of relevance. Even those who initially found her attractive quickly got annoyed at seeing that aheago face wherever they go. Many users blame the popularity of the gallery on the [[PerverseSexualLust poor taste of immature users]], leading to the gallery staying relevant even though no-one is posting anything anymore.

* TheScrappy:
** Deadpooled memes, though some get enough popularity to be un-deadpooled. The only real exception is the page on ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} himself, a well-renowned page that continues to be deadpooled if only for the sake of a meta joke.
** For a non-deadpooled sort, there's what the userbase calls "thing-I-don't-like exploitables", among other less polite names, referring to the seemingly endless variations on the same "two panels of a generally peaceful 'I will never get upset' setup, third easily-editable panel with a bad opinion, fourth panel of a violent reaction to it" format. Each one gets a more tired, and more vitriolic reaction than the last due to how utterly predictable they are, and because they're found to be little more than a bad tool to take strawman-esque potshots at a position some uncreative individual dislikes.
** In 2019, the Belle Delphine image gallery got this treatment, [[EliminationHoudini for refusing to disappear]], even weeks after she herself has fallen out of relevance. Even those who initially found her attractive quickly got annoyed at seeing that aheago face wherever they go. Many users blame the popularity of the gallery on the [[PerverseSexualLust poor taste of immature users]], leading to the gallery staying relevant even though no-one is posting anything anymore.
** Wojak memes quickly fell into this category in 2019, especially the "-oomer" Wojaks such as "30 Year Old Boomer", "Doomer", and "Coomer" (the latter getting the worst of this) due their StrictlyFormula nature and new variants showing up extremely frequently and often making the front page. It eventually reached the point where users would mock the trend by making intentionally ridiculous fake Wojacks like "Scoober" (a scuba diving afficionado) and "Vacoomer" (an anthropomorphic vacuum cleaner).
*** As of 2020, the "Soy Boy Face" meme, commonly associated with an edit of a Wojack with an unsightly beard and glasses (based on the "nu male" stereotype of left-leaning men, who are depicted in the meme as effeminate and consumerist), has overtaken the "Coomer" Wojack as the worst-received Wojack meme on the site, owing in part to a concentrated effort by several users to mass-upload variants of it onto the site, cluttering the "All Images" gallery in the process. One of these users eventually got outright ''banned'' as a result. None of this is helped by a handful of 4chan users deciding to spam the website with soyjaks every so often.
** Anything coming from [=TikTok=]. No, really, anything.

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* FriendlyFandoms: Due to their focus on memes, the site gets a lot of overlap with the various Imageboards, Imgur, and other such sites. Wiki/ThisVeryWiki being among them. Website/{{Tumblr}} seems to be on-and-off, but [[FandomRivalry it's leaning more towards the "off" side]].

* CriticalResearchFailure: In the episode about "The Lying Down Game", they discussed how memes can undergo a sort of convergent evolution, comparing a photo fad in Britain of people lying down in strange places to a different, Korean photo fad of people playing dead in reference to ''Manga/CrayonShinChan''. They compared this type of thing to how the flying squirrel and sugar glider evolved separately on separate continents, [[SomewhereAMammalogistIsCrying one as a marsupial and one as a]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment mammal]]. It could possibly be excused by how they focus in the study of memes and not much else.

* TrueArtIsAncient: Good luck getting a meme confirmed if it's still the same week it became popular.

---> It's like watching a small clan of outback hillibillies sticking to their own company and inbreeding, each subsequent generation uglier and stupider than the last, drooling at the world and no longer able to function in society at all.\\
One can but hope that they'd ultimately become incapable of reproducing, and would finally die out. Instead of, you know, descending to civilized society like a mentally-stunted laughing mutant horde in the search for breeding-slaves.
-->--'''[[https://knowyourmeme.com/comments/5939481 Ten Shadows]]''' (February 2022), using ''very'' FloweryInsults to describe the soyjak community.

*** As of June 2020, the "Soy Boy Face" meme, commonly associated with an edit of a Wojack with an unsightly beard and glasses (based on the "nu male" stereotype of left-leaning men, who are depicted in the meme as effeminate and consumerist), has overtaken the "Coomer" Wojack as the worst-received Wojack meme on the site, owing in part to a concentrated effort by several users to mass-upload variants of it onto the site, cluttering the "All Images" gallery in the process. One of these users eventually got outright ''banned'' as a result. None of this is helped by a handful of 4chan users deciding to spam the website with soyjaks every so often.

** The KYM Collector Bot is perceived by the userbase as an unnecessary solution to the nonexistent problem of "better archiving memes", since all it did was flood the website with barely relevant content from popular subreddits, drowning out posts by actual users. Fittingly, the administrators ignored complaints and instead ''increased'' the reach of the bot, to the point it uploaded over ''700'' images a day on its own at one point. It seems like the administration has caught on, since they shut the bot off sometime in late April 2020, but only after it had posted over 232,000 images, the majority of which have next-to-no views. While users have the option of filtering out posts by the Bot, lurkers have no such luxury.
** ''Aaand'' it's back, unfortunately.

->'''Don:''' The boomer meme seems to be a hit everywhere else. [[LampshadeHanging Not sure why it isn't welcome here]].

* AmericansHateTingle: In a site-vs-site way rather than in terms of countries. "30 year old Boomer" found quite a bit of purchase on 4chan and imageboards in general, and had a warm reception in other sites as well. KYM's userbase, however, did not find it nearly as humorous, considering it another overdone Wojak that's cracking a joke that isn't even funny to begin with. Every time it's frontpaged, it usually gets downvoted into oblivion or barely breaking even, and users from the popular to the unpopular universally complain about it.

** Due to the VocalMinority opinion on feminism or social justice topics, a number of commenters have little tolerance for the social justice spheres on Website/{{Tumblr}} and other such sites (read above on AcceptableTargets).

*** As of June 2020, the "Soy Boy Face" meme, commonly associated with an edit of a Wojack with an unsightly beard and glasses (based on the "nu male" stereotype of left-leaning men, who are depicted in the meme as effeminate and consumerist), has overtaken the "Coomer" Wojack as the worst-received Wojack meme on the site, owing in part to a concentrated effort by several users to mass-upload variants of it onto the site, cluttering the "All Images" gallery in the process. One of these users eventually got outright ''banned'' as a result.

** Similarly, the site's ground-up redesign in late 2020 was met with so much contention that the official Discord server added a channel specifically to track recurring issues people have with it.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: After KYM changed hands from Rocketboom to Cheezburger, a good portion of the userbase reacted negatively.

** The KYM Collector Bot is perceived by the userbase as an unnecessary solution to the nonexistent problem of "better archiving memes", since all it did was flood the website with barely relevant content from popular subreddits and drown out posts by actual users. Fittingly, the administrators ignored complaints and instead ''increased'' the reach of the bot, to the point it uploaded over ''700'' images a day on its own at one point. It seems like the administration has caught on, since they shut the bot off sometime in late April 2020, but only after it had posted over 232,000 images, most of them utterly forgettable.

** Wojak memes quickly fell into this category in 2019, especially the "-oomer' Wojaks such as '30 Year Old Boomer', 'Doomer', and 'Coomer' (The latter getting the worst of this) due their StrictlyFormula nature and new variants showing up extremely frequently and often making the front page.
*** As of June 2020, the "Soy Boy Face" meme, commonly associated with an edit of a Wojack with a neckbeard and glasses, has overtaken the "Coomer" Wojack as the worst-received Wojack meme on the site.

* NetworkDecay: People in the comments have been concerned that the site is starting to drift too much into a news site, especially in relation to the Occupy Wall Street movement and the United States election, or into a fads website displaying every trend on {{Website/Reddit}}, Website/{{Tumblr}}, and hashtags that trend on Website/{{Twitter}}. For a more literal example, many on the userbase have pointed out the drastic decline of many [[LongRunner older users in recent months]], a commonly-made point being that it might relate to all the previously stated points.

* FriendlyFandoms: Due to their focus on memes, the site gets a lot of overlap with the various Imageboards, Imgur, and other such sites. Wiki/ThisVeryWiki being among them. Website/{{Tumblr}} seems to be on-and-off, but [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment due to certain events which will not be mentioned further]], [[FandomRivalry it's leaning more towards the "off" side]].

** The KYM Collector Bot is perceived by the userbase as an unnecessary solution nobody asked for, creating in the process the problem of its incessant spamming of low-quality posts from popular subreddits drowning out posts by the userbase. Fittingly, the administrators have ignored complaints and instead ''increased'' the reach of the bot, to the point it uploads over ''700'' images a day on its own.