User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/How To Use Images Without Uploading Them to the Wiki, Despite Everything Wikia Tries to Do/@comment-53539-20170816180920

Why is this necessary? Well, our evil tyrant admins decided one day that only certain types of images can be uploaded on this wiki. Images from One Piece, that have to be used in productive wiki articles (the horror). So you can't upload things just for your user page, or your blog post, you know, the important stuff. However, thanks to the wonders of the internet, there is a way to make images appear just by linking them, as I've just done above!

Objection!

She says, while the BGM of Phoenix Wright plays in the background as she types

The editor who wrote the original One Piece Wiki:Guidebook/Image Guidelines was not even a member of staff of this wikia and was a normal editor. She did so to help sort out the growing number of images on the wikia and to help make life easier by laying everything out in black and white. The images were adapted over time to suit the wikias need and avoid copyright issues. We also have been anti-upload for self images because the wikia has hundreds of them and needless uploads slow things down and create a large number of problems. No image should be uploaded unto any wikia unless the wikia has a need for it.

You cannot justify images that are uploaded for personnel reasons, you can if they are on a article and are added for "demonstrational" purposes though. A wikia can survive with no images at all and many Japanese editor wiki, for example, do so, English wikias prefer touse images though as they often help with readers to read the page.