9GAG
Sign in to save9gag (stylized as 9GAG) is an online platform and social media website based in Hong Kong, which allows its users to upload and share user-generated content or other content from external social media websites. Since the platform for collections of Internet memes was launched on April 11, 2008, it has grown in popularity across social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Key facts
- Website.name
- 9gag
- Website.logo
- 9gag logo.svg
- Website.country_of_origin
- China
- Website.advertising
- Banner ads
- Website.registration
- Optional (required to submit, comment, vote or view NSFW content)
- Website.language
- English
- Website.company_type
- Private
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.key_people
- Ray Chan (CEO)
- Website.current_status
- Active
- Website.website_type
- Entertainment
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Described at
9gag: Make the world happier. | Y Combinator
Make the world happier. Founded in 2007 by Ray Chan, Chris Chan, Derek Chan, Marco Fung, and Brian Yu, 9gag has 36 employees based in Hong Kong.
ycombinator.com →9GAG is the global cross-platform entertainment media network. It is a place for fun, conversation, and engagement. Founded in 2008, 9GAG’s mission is to make the world happier. 9GAG has a total of 150 million global audience with 39 million followers on Facebook, 44 million on Instagram and 15 million on Twitter. Being 1 ranked global social media platform in entertainment & gaming, 1 ranked US's cross-platform video creators, we distribute 2.2 billion social video views on a monthly basis (source: tubular labs). 9GAG.com is 6 most followed brand on Instagram and is a top 200 website globally. 9GAG is backed by: Freestyle Capital, True Ventures, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Y Combinator and a group of great angel investors in the United States. eg Anthony Soohoo, Benjamin Ling, BoxGroup, Gary Vaynerchuk, James Hong, Kevin Rose, Karl Jacob, Lowercase Capital, Maneesh Arora, Naval Ravikant, Othman Laraki, Philip Kaplan, Rich Chen, Rich Lefurgy, Scott and Cyan Banister, Tim Ferriss.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- 9gag.com
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- 9GAG
- inception
- 2008-01-01
- Alexa rank
- 379
- search formatter URL
- 9gag.com/search?query=$1
- described at URL
- www.ycombinator.com/companies/469
- social media followers
- 16846803
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9gag (stylized as 9GAG) is an online platform and social media website based in Hong Kong, which allows its users to upload and share user-generated content or other content from external social media websites. Since the platform for collections of Internet memes was launched on April 11, 2008, it has grown in popularity across social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
==History== The website was co-founded in 2008 by a group of Hong Kongers including University of Hong Kong student Ray Chan, with the intention of creating an alternative online platform to email on which users could easily share humorous photos or videos. In a 2012 interview, Chan declined to explain the origins of the name "9gag". Chan later explained that the name "9gag" comes from Cantonese, where it sounds like "gou gag" which means to crack a joke or gag.