He was planning on using those funds for college.Ī Facebook spokesperson has since released a statement to The Daily Dot justifying its purge, explaining that “These accounts were disabled following multiple violations of our policies, including attempted abuse of our internal processes.” As some other users on Twitter point out, many of the memes on those high-profile pages were taken from Reddit or other meme sites without permission, so Instagram’s decision to remove their accounts appear justified to them. Craig, an 18-year-old Instagram user, also revealed that his account a page that earned him more than $30,000 USD this year alone, had also been taken down. Just last week, The Daily Dot reported that at least 30 high-profile meme accounts were taken down by the giant social media platform, reportedly for violating Instagram’s terms and services.Īmong the affected was a user under the account name whose page had built a 40 million follower fan-base and earned him more than $600,000 USD. ORIGINAL STORY, (July 31, 2019): Instagram has just conducted its own version of the purge, but with a very specific group of victims in mind - meme accounts. Memes are a format that you’re starting to see traditional media companies adopt more and more… We think if we can get to know and understand there is a lot to learn that can influenced the more traditional media companies.” According to King, the candidate will ideally be “equally fluent in the language of memes and the business of digital publishing.”

Speaking to The Atlantic, Lila King, head of news and publishing partnerships at Instagram, explained, “We’ve seen, through the course of our work with publishers and creators, that the meme community has become really influential.

So much butthurt meme