I went to check out the White Sox Interactive reaction and it appears they may have done some light hotlinking: https://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/vbulletin/index.php?s=16e3e4ebce8f4cb8bab0a59246995e68 I'm trying to inspect the page elements and it would appear they're hotlinking to their own website... So their forum is on a subfolder (vbulletin) but the images appear to be hosted on their root folder, and they may have set it up so that all images uploaded to their root directories get the hotlinking default image so no one will steal them? MY guess is they post graphics and images on the main site they don't want anyone to steal, but lal the message board images are stored there too, so they are getting tagged as a result? Maybe I'm wrong, but all these hotlinking images are sourced to their own website, which is hilarious.