Opening Salvo: The Great Meme War of 2018

Have you ever spent a great deal of time and effort into making a post, and watched it take flight, only to see it get swatted down by another user, or soft-censored by a Steemit developer? The intention behind this contest is to get people to express how ridiculous it is that this type of censorship exists on the Steemit UI of all places!

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Eligibility

Eligible contestants will:

1. Upvote this post.
2. Resteem this post.
3. Post MEME^(s) in comments.
4. Adhere to the guidelines.

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Guidelines

1. Avoid targeting fellow Steemians.
2. Keep it clean, nothing vile, no nudity, etc.
3. Five different prizes, for five different accounts.
4. Feel free to enter as many times as you would like!
5. Sponsors are not eligible to win, but may participate!
6. Meme against Steemit's flagging, downvoting, reward policing etc.

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Obviously, if your submissions are quality, the more of them that you submit, the greater are your chances to be picked for one of the five prizes.

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Prizes!

1 = $11.00 (SBD) ^{sponsored by: Hive account@thoughts-in-time}
2 = $07.00 (SBD) ^{sponsored by: Hive account@paradigmprospect}
3 = $04.00 (SBD) ^{sponsored by: Hive account@thoughts-in-time}
4 = $02.00 (SBD) ^{sponsored by: Hive account@thoughts-in-time}
5 = $01.00 (SBD) ^{sponsored by: Hive account@thoughts-in-time}

(+) Mystery gifts!

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What is a mystery gift?

Mystery gifts normally occur after the prize winners are announced. Have you ever watched a prize-based contest only to end up disagreeing with the results? Well that's where you come into play! Should that happen, then you can simply send SBD directly to the person whose work that you'd like to see rewarded. In the memo type: "Mystery Gift!".

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^{The image at the top of this post was sourced from Pixabay.
Unless otherwise noted, Hive account@thoughts-in-time will sponsor all prizes.
If you would like to help out, send sbd for the prize you'd like to sponsor.
The winners are to be announced on or before March 31, 2018.}

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^{Do you want to donate to the war chest? If so send sbd earmarked 'war chest', and you'll be listed as a donor on the next salvo. Or if you host your own successful contest in favor of free speech on Steemit and send me the link, I will also list you as a donor, because it's a donation to the cause!}

^{Donors become honorary members of FFF-SOS which is a decentralized foundation of freedom oriented Steem activists. Even if you do not donate, you can totally be a member of the 'Foundation for Free Speech on SteemitⓀ' just put the abbreviation in your about me, or location. If someone asks you about it, explain to them why you are a member! We shall know each other by our fancy, yet apt, initialism!}