You could of course just provide a link to an image - that's very low bandwidth and anyone who wants to view the image in all its glory can very easily do so.

I find this subthread out of proportion and even a bit petty...
• the emojis display very differently on different plattforms
• he's within the 20 year old quotas
• he doesn't do it very often
• downloading this subthread from his first picture post results in 380k of volume. pair.com's promotion alone needs 272k, pair's banner gif needs 66k

> wget -p -H https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=11155528

> du 
12    ./www.perlmonks.org/css
108    ./www.perlmonks.org
72    ./promote.pair.com/i
272    ./promote.pair.com
384    .
[download]

Disclaimer: I haven't checked to which degree his node is compressed during transmission and I assume the promoting stuff is cached.

But still

Cheers Rolf
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