Oh, that might be why. If you configure cloudflare to serve the images, that seems like it could help. It’d be quick to test it out, too. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/202775670
All images on notrealnews.net are behind a CDN I made at: [redacted] (like all the images are hosted there and then I utilize Cloudflare to cache them [0])
[0]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials/configur...