There are proper ways to go about monetising their site though. An unannounced overnight change which blocked millions of images is not the way to do it. God knows what they thought they were doing, how could any business person have thought that that could possibly work? Were they inspired by the recent ransomware attacks?
Heh, just noticed that the first line of Photobucket's entry on Wiki has been moved into the past tense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotobucketPhotobucket was an American image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community.