i figured it out. i'm addicted to being gaslighted. having broken or cut off all the narcissists around me, i have to come to QR to get the some high quality gaslighting, or my fuck you attitude will atrophy.
anon opines that the great DNS poisoning and "OMG NO IMAGES ON AN IMAGE BOARD!!!1!" slide was dreamed up by someone who didn't know about /etc/hosts and now they are screeching because anons perservere.
it does, however, suck that most phonefags and tabletfags are SOL wrt seeing images.
how does that round robin stuff work if you have multiple IPs for the same hostname in one's hosts file?