What's ironic is that when Imgur was first created, it branded itself as the image host that doesn't suck.
The enshittification was inevitable. Being an image host, especially one that allows direct linking, is expensive.
Side note: RIP Gfycat. They join the ranks of ImageShack and Photobucket of causing millions of links on the Internet to suddenly become dead. Imgur did a purge of porn, which now means a whole bunch of images on the porn subreddits are now dead.
The enshittification was inevitable. Being an image host, especially one that allows direct linking, is expensive.
Side note: RIP Gfycat. They join the ranks of ImageShack and Photobucket of causing millions of links on the Internet to suddenly become dead. Imgur did a purge of porn, which now means a whole bunch of images on the porn subreddits are now dead.