Melee: Gaming Communities

About

Melee: Gaming Communities is an application developed by Imgur that allows users to subscribe to specific video games and receive a customized feed of memes about those games.

History

On December 5th, 2019, Imgur released Melee: Gaming Communities, a gaming meme application, differentiating itself from the image-sharing website Imgur by specifically centering on memes about video games.

Upon its release, Imgur founder and CEO Alan Schaaf told TechCrunch,^[1] "Gamers are constantly taking recordings and screenshots of the games they’re playing. But we found that there’s no place for gamers to share those clips. We want to give these highlights a home."

Imgur also announced that an Android would be coming in 2020.

Features

Upon signing into the application, users are prompted with a series of video games to follow. Users also have the option to search for games. The user's home screen is populated with memes about the games that they selected. Additionally, they can go to specified areas just for memes about those memes, delineating between the user's main feed, which features all the games they follow, and a specific game.

Melee also features an area for trending memes, which may include memes that are not found on the user's main feed. Users can also organize memes by "Popular," "Newest" and "Rising."

Search Interest

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