So I got bored and wrote a little app that downloads images from imgur at random (just a randomly generated 5 char string). I was completely surprised at the stats of what I found.

Out of a sample of 100 pictures at random (took about 5 min to get them all):

 

Minecraft: 7 pics

Pornographic material: 8 pics

Portraits/Selfies: 13 pics

Other video games: 15 pics

Anime: 4 pics

Cats: 3 pics

 

53 pics left that were just random other stuff

43 of the pics were computer generated or screenshots while the rest being photographs (some were photo-shopped but started out as a real photo)

 

Now this was only 1 sample of 100 randomly selected photos but the categories that show up the most kind of surprised me.

Thoughts?

That is some nice research you're doing here.

 

Well I, myself am not surprised really, Imgur is fast and easy to use. Basically every time somebody wants to show something to the other person, they just upload it to Imgur. I bet it's also popular on all sorts boards and forums too.

 

I'd recommend you continue the research OP, seems a very interesting topic to me. Try spreading it to the internet, I'm sure mature people would like digging into it.

Now this was only 1 sample of 100 randomly selected photos but the categories that show up the most kind of surprised me.

Why? pr0n, minecraft and cats are some of the usual internet stuff.

Minecraft: 7 pics

Pornographic material: 8 pics

Portraits/Selfies: 13 pics

Other video games: 15 pics

Anime: 4 pics

Cats: 3 pics

 

Not enough.

53 pics left that were just random other stuff

 

Any good pics of bread?

I am waiting for OP to continue, quality thread.

Release it? I want to see for myself :3

Heh... realized I was only getting .jpg extension pictures.... Should have stats for other extensions and as all of them as a whole soon.

Check here for updates: http://ragdollphysics.wordpress.com/201 ... ith-imgur/