I'm curious why the pic is still there somewhere even though the source is gone... is a thumbnail saved on the forum?
The thumbnails would not make good replacements, they're severely shrunken versions of the source images and would not take well to being blown up. They're shrunken to conserve disk space. It takes an image, that could be in the tens of KB to into the MBs somewhere down to like... 10KB.
there are however memes that you could at the least read the text and understand the principal of the post. I agree that for most subs it doesn't seem worth the trouble. But you can zoom in and read the memes in most cases... I guess all for all it isn't worth it... best bet would be to choose an image host that wont go belly up like imgur... though they do delete posts
I haven't had an issue with imgur. I've made sure to make my posts private and share the images directly on Phuks, or wherever else I post it. I know for sure it's been some copyrighted content.
I did, and upvoted... just wondering if those could replace the pics in the future now... wouldn't that be a good insurance?