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Comment by bombcar | Hacker News Reader

I had some random images on a web server years ago - and noticed that something like 99% of my traffic was one image - and searching through refers I realized I was the #1 hit on google images for robot attack cat.

Simpler times.

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I had a similar issue. Some 15+ years ago, an image from my blog showed up for people who searched the phrase 'Peanubutter Sex'. The image had nothing to do with peanutbutter nor with sex. My blog is SFW. It was some screenshot of KDE IIRC.

For almost a week it remained the most requested image the post on which it appeared, the most popular.

It did make me uncomfortable, though. Fearing that my rankings would plummet or so.

My takeaway is nothing new: there are weirdo's online.

So where did the connection between "Peanubutter Sex" and your blog come from? Did you ever find out?

I did not.

My blog did have the word "Peanutbutter" on one or two posts. And the word "sex" on another. Maybe at some point both words showed up close to one another when experimenting with some "random articles" sidebar or some "you may also like" list.

Can we see the image? :D

Yes, but only 10 million times.

https://imgur.com/8MMET5V - now there are companies that can host things FOR my servants!

Anyone knows how imgur is able to afford that ?

ads

Even though ad-blockers are ever more common ? (I didn't even think about ads, since I never saw them on imgur !)

It's the same way Google pulled in $180B last year and Facebook made $86B.

AFAIK both of these are using methods that are either deemed acceptable by adblockers (like how Google was using plain blue/black text instead of stroboscopic gif banners), and/or adblockers have trouble with them because they come from the same source ?

They have an app which is ad supported, and they are trying to become of a social network like reddit by requiring you to login for more features, and adding upvotes and other interactivity.

Low cost CDNs like Cloudflare.

Imgur uses Fastly, which I don't think can be classified as low cost.

You got to have hotlink protection on when you are hosting memes. I've learned this the hard way, too.

Remember when some sites would send you a shock image instead of the one you were expecting if it detected hot linking? I don't miss that.

There's a site that's occasionally posted in comments here which is apparently run by someone who hates HN because they serve some image I can't remember to readers from here.

Yeah it was posted not long ago. When it sees HN as the referrer it shows a picture of a testicle in an egg cup.

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