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Reposting the same low quality image memes and thereby clogging up image storage space server side I would guess.
While I'm not going to tell someone how they should enjoy the internet, there are very real storage costs to host images or even create thumbnails of them. Are those the only pictures that you disapprove of? What about vids?
I think it is more of an awareness raising question. I think people are often unaware that image storage at scale (and conversion indeed) incurs some real costs.
Linking to external image hosts like it used to be common during the forum days is also discouraged by many as too often these broke over the years and also since they are a privacy concern with Facebook buying up places like giffy for user tracking purposes.
I don't think there is any real solution (but maybe some short term band-aids for deduplication) other than people being a bit more aware about their internet use. It's a bit like in real-life with plastic wrappings ;)