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Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2022: Week 7
imeem was a social media site that allowed users to upload and stream music and videos.
It was adopted as a new fannish home by the Livejournal and other segments of the vidding community in 2006. Around this time Youtube was first taking off and vidders were increasingly concerned about losing control over their work or having it reposted without credit. imeem, less well-known but with good video quality, was influential in convincing live-action vidders to try streaming for the first time.
In June 2009, imeem announced that it would discontinue its video-hosting service in five days. Site users were not at all pleased with either the decision or the five-day warning. There was a flurry of blogging activity as vidders left the service and tried to find alternative sites to host their work.
MySpace bought out imeem on December 8, 2009, closing down the service on the same day and redirecting all traffic to MySpace Music.