Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-3403151-20200217230552

What you expect is irrelevant, in practice I first became aware of this change - within 4 days - because of a regular wiki-reading-only non-editing anon complaining about a downloaded image being "corrupt".

People from a variety of "fandoms" like to download images, for the purpose of making memes, for example. People who specifically read video game wikis are highly likely to download maps or other instructional images. They don't have to be Wikia editors to want to do that.

However, I do not expect that the typical anon will bother to contact the wiki to let them know the image they tried to download is corrupt - the only reason I learned about it was that they complained off-wiki and someone else reported it to me.

But all of this is irrelevant, because Wikia Staff have already made it very clear that they simply do not care about anons who want to download images: Mira Laime wrote:

There is still going to be the odd user who is negatively impacted, by this, yes.