The Imgur upload page included posting it to their community by default as its final step. It wasn’t necessary to get a link but they didn’t make it clear for the longest time.

You could just upload to Imgur and get a share link, but for the longest time it would default to also post uploads to the Imgur front page. Most random stuff would only get as far as 'user submitted ’ before sinking into the depths, but anything engaging would get up voted to most viral and attract a lot of comments.

I used to be quite active in the Imgur community before the enshitification and it was always a bit of a meme the amount of random stuff that got into user sub unintentionally.

Same, I had mine bringing them home a few years ago.

One thing that always struck me was how 1990’s (and maybe earlier) the pictures were. It’s hard to put my finger on why, but they just don’t feel contemporary.