Please don't look for posts from /u/hardtimes without a severe CW for scat and who knows what else at this point.
I think it's worth considering what kind of damage trolls, wreckers, and edgelords in general can do with such images in the future. @Frank@hexbear.net may have been right in that struggle session today; such open image posting may be a mistake.
Counter point: wreckers wouldn't have been smart enough to have thought of that if y'all hadn't kept bringing up that it could be a problem.
Internet trolls have been abusing embedded images ever since they became a thing.
It was brought up because it's been an issue on every forum that allows image posting, forever, going back to probably BBS systems. There are a huge number of shock images I can name that most extremely online millennials will remember, and if you could see their faces you'd see the visible cringe because a lot of them are awful.
man I dunno, I'm not a particularly smart person but that's what instantly came to mind as soon as I saw it
This happened a few days ago on lemmy. Same kind of stuff I think
No, if its the user I'm assuming it is (based on the description) then they've been doing it on Lemmy for years.
4chan has existed for 20 years, every imaginable form of trolling has already been thought of