History Main / HotlinkedImageSwitch

* Jameth, a user of ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' keeps an eye on his bandwidth and if enough people hotlink to an image, he'll replace it with a photo of four black men being lynched with this suitably offensive message: "NO NIGGERS" printed on it, invoking the /b/elief on 4chan about larceny and Americans with African heritage. It's bad enough that it won't even be linked to here.

* Jameth, a user of ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' keeps an eye on his bandwidth and if enough people hotlink to an image, he'll replace it with a photo of four black men being lynched with this suitably offensive message: "NO NIGGERS" printed on it. It's bad enough that it won't even be linked to here.

* When Website/{{SomethingAwful}}'s paywall went up during the finale of VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}} LP, they discovered people on Website/{{Tumblr}} were leeching images, and redirected it to an image of a girl lifting a table in rage with the tagline "STOP LEECHING YOU FUCKS"
* Jameth, a user of ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' keeps an eye on his bandwidth and if enough people hotlink to an image, he'll replace it with a photo of four black men being lynched with this suitably offensive message: "[[spoiler:NO NIGGERS]]" printed on it. It's bad enough that it won't even be linked to here.

* When Website/{{SomethingAwful}}'s paywall went up during the finale of {{Dangan Ronpa}} LP, they discovered people on Website/{{Tumblr}} were leeching images, and redirected it to an image of a girl lifting a table in rage with the tagline "STOP LEECHING YOU FUCKS"

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[[caption-width:191:Be warned... that frog loves eating leechers.]]

* When {{SomethingAwful}}'s paywall went up during the finale of {{Dangan Ronpa}} LP, they discovered people on {{Tumblr}} were leeching images, and redirected it to an image of a girl lifting a table in rage with the tagline "STOP LEECHING YOU FUCKS"

* One guy hosted a "Grim Reaper Holding an Hourglass" image, [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989 popularly hotlinked]] from MySpace, but 400 hotlinks/hour was a bit too much, so he [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 changed it]] to [[ShockSite Goatse.cx image]]. HilarityEnsues.[[note]]Links are broken; proper ones are "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1012 The Ass-Termath]]", "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127 Goatse II: The Widening]]", "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1052 The February Goat Update]]" and "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1376 Goatse Metrics]]" (graphs of goatse'ing).[[/note]]

* The ''EveOnline'' WMG section of this very wiki once hotlinked an image to the new galaxy introduced in ''Apocrypha''. Upon finding it hotlinked everywhere, the author changed it to an image begging for the Naglfar-class Dreadnought to be buffed.

* ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': The "National Organization for Marriage", an anti-gay-marriage group, hot-linked a [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2144 comic from his site.]] The author responded by [[CrowningMomentofAwesome changing the image]] to one [[http://twitpic.com/3w7b1j supporting gay marriage]].

* One guy hosted a "Grim Reaper Holding an Hourglass" image, [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989 popularly hotlinked]] from {{MySpace}}, but 400 hotlinks/hour was a bit too much, so he [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 changed it]] to [[ShockSite Goatse.cx image]]. HilarityEnsues.[[hottip:*:links are broken; proper ones are "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1012 The Ass-Termath]]", "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127 Goatse II: The Widening]]", "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1052 The February Goat Update]]" and "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1376 Goatse Metrics]]" (graphs of goatse'ing).]]

* [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/this-is-why-you-dont-steal-from-cracked Seen here]] is CrackedDotCom's example, where a Spanish-language website had taken their entire article, including hotlinked images.

* {{Conservapedia}} hotlinked an image of the Grand Canyon citing "FairUse". The owner [[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/File:Copyrighted-Picture.jpg responded]] by adding text to the picture denouncing Conservapedia's beliefs and their hijacking of the pic.

On TheInternet, there are a bunch of cool images. Most people are fine if they are spread and displayed, should the proper permissions and bandwidth be in play.

On the internet, there are a bunch of cool images. Most people are fine if they are spread and displayed, should the proper permissions and bandwidth be in play.

On the internet, there are a bunch of cool images. Most people are fine if they are spread and displayed, should the proper permissions and bandwith be in play.

However, there are those (commonly called "leechers") who display images on their site directly taken from another "Hotlinked" or "Inline Linked", using the other site's bandwith without permission for their own purposes. Of course, when the home site find this out, it's quite easy to change the image to something else. HilarityEnsues. Usually it's just changed to a warning against using images/bandwith without permission, but sometimes, snarky pranks or ShockSite images ensue.

* ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': The "National Organization for Marriage", an anti-gay-marriage group, hot-linked a [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2144 comic from his site.]] The author responded by changing the image to one [[http://twitpic.com/3w7b1j supporting gay marriage]].

* The evil forces of [[ImageBoards Enturbulation]] used this tactic against against the Guardian newspaper on one occasion. Specifically, when it leached a picture taken at a protest against the [[ChurchOfHappyology Scilons]] from Britchan. They responded with [[ShockSite Goatse]]. The exact course of events is documented in the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjNzXSQoGY

* The guy hosted a "Grim Reaper Holding an Hourglass" image, [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989 popularly hotlinked]] from {{MySpace}}, but 400 hotlinks/hour was a bit too much, so he [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 changed it]] to Goatse.cx image. HilarityEnsues.[[hottip:*:links are broken; proper ones are "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1012 The Ass-Termath]]", "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1127 Goatse II: The Widening]]", "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1052 The February Goat Update]]" and "[[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1376 Goatse Metrics]]" (graphs of goatse'ing).]]

* The evil forces of [[ImageBoards Enturbulation]] used this tactic against against the Guardian newspaper on one occasion. Specifically, when it leached a picture taken at a protest against HatedomNickname the [[ChurchOfHappyology Scilons]] from Britchan. They responded with [[ShockSite Goatse]]. The exact course of events is documented in the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjNzXSQoGY

* The evil forces of [[ImageBoards Enturbulation]] used this tactic against against the Guardian newspaper on one occasion. Specifically, when it leached a picture taken at a protest against [[HatedomNickname the]] [[ChurchOfHappyology Scilons]] from Britchan. They responded with [[ShockSite Goatse]]. The exact course of events is documented in the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjNzXSQoGY

* The evil forces of [[ImageBoards Enturbulation]] used this tactic against against the Guardian newspaper on one occasion. Specifically, when it leached a picture taken at a protest against [[HatedomNickname the]] [[ChurchOfHappyology Scilons]] from Britchan. They responded with [[ShockSite Goatse]. The exact course of events is documented in the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIjNzXSQoGY

* TroperTale: This troper discovered that a conservative Christian site was hotlinking to an image of Donatello's David from his site. He responded by replacing it with a picture he found on a porn site (solely for this purpose, you understand).

* The guy hosting a "Grim Reaper Holding an Hourglass" image, [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/989 popularly hotlinked]] from {{MySpace}}, [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 changed it to the Goatse.cx image]]. Hilarity Ensues.

* ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': The "National Organization for Marriage", an anti-gay group, hot-linked a [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2144 comic from his site.]] The author responded by changing the image to one [[http://twitpic.com/3w7b1j supporting gay marriage]].
* The creator of a "Grim Reaper Holding an Hourglass" image, popularly hotlinked from {{MySpace}}, [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 changed it to the Goatse.cx image]]. Hilarity Ensues.

* The John [=McCain MySpace=] site featured an update template which didn't give the requested credit to its designer, and leeched images from his site. He responded by replacing it with [[http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/27/633799-hacking-john-mccain a fake message from John supporting gay marriage]].
* {{Conservapedia}} uploaded an image of the Grand Canyon citing "FairUse". The owner [[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/File:Copyrighted-Picture.jpg responded]] by adding text to the picture denouncing Conservapdia's beliefs and their hijacking of the pic.

* The creator of a "Grim Reaper Holding an Hourglass" image, popularly hotlinked from {{Myspace}}, [[http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011 changed it to the Goatse.cx image]]. Hilarity Ensues.
* A 2004 LiveJournal AprilFoolsDay prank called "Operation: Jour de Poisson" featured a user spreading an icon in apparent support of the phrase "Under God" in the pledge of allegiance... switching the image to one supporting the exact opposite stance on April 1st.

* The John Mc Cain Myspace site featured an update template which didn't give the requested credit to its designer, and leeched images from his site. He responded by replacing it with [[http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/27/633799-hacking-john-mccain a fake message from John supporting gay marriage.]]
* {{Conservapedia}} uploaded an image of the Grand Canyon citing "FairUse." The owner [[http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/File:Copyrighted-Picture.jpg responded]] by adding text to the picture denouncing Conservapdia's beliefs and their hijacking of the pic.

This is why we have the Image Uploader.