Yahoo!!!

Imgur seems to be getting more and more popular as of late.  In 2012, Imgur was getting about 2 billion page views per month.  Currently, they could be getting as many as twice that.  In September, the site surpassed 100 million unique users per month.  Per Month.  That's an incredibly large amount of people.  And now, it seems that someone is taking a keen interest in this huge market share.  The CEO of Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer, is considering purchasing the site in order to further monetize the site.  Imgur already makes a little cash selling Pro User account subscriptions and from advertising.  Future business ventures may also include selling T-shirts and maybe even publishing a book.
 I don't know about all this.  I think the initial draw that Imgur had was that it is pretty non-invasive.  You never really get bombarded by advertisements like some other sites (Buzzfeed), or distracted by a plethora of distracting fluff and fillers.  Imgur's tagline is even 'The Simple Image Sharer.'  I don't know if you have been to the Yahoo! page recently, but it is far from simple.  Weather displays, ads, sponsors, headlines, trending stuff, a comic strip, etc.  There's a search bar in there somewhere I think.  If Yahoo! absorbs Imgur, is the site going to lose its soul?  Other questions that should be raised here are ones concerning content control and censorship.  All the content on Imgur is user submitted, and it can range from cute kitty pictures to disturbing content and pictures NSFW (not safe for work).  Yahoo! would ultimately put its own stamp on the way Imgur's site operates day-to-day.  I foresee that in the near future, like the next 48 hours, their will be a hilarious backlash to this news on the site.  Memes and Gif's galore!