^^^^^^ So, it looks like Photobucket has decided to change its business model and is no longer allowing 3rd party links to users photos unless you have a premium paid account. If you haven't paid up, the links are dead and the image above is now delivered instead of the intended photo.
Its their site and they can do what they want, but the only paid account which allows 3rd party links is priced at $399 per year!
Well, that seems like a pretty hefty price tag for 500GB of storage, so I'll be moving all of my photos over the next few weeks to one of my privately hosted websites where I can self-host my photos forever to avoid a similar recurrence.
The hard and slow part is that I will have to edit the link for each and every photo that I've ever posted to this Forum with the updated image address. Not the end of the world, but this is gonna be a real PITA.
Sorry for the issue but this thread (and all of my other previous posts) will get back to normal soon.