Thanks for responding. Pic8 isn't the host of the images though.
When you click a pic8 link it will redirect you to one of several image hosts where pic8 has filtered the uploaded image out to. This helps so that a host going defunct or removing an image doesn't cause the image to disappear since pic8 will then switch to one of the other hosts that the image was uploaded to. It helps with image longevity and avoiding censorship of images by having multiple copies of it around the web.
The host that we were trying to identify with the porn on it was the actual website the image was hosted on that you were directed to after clicking the pic8 link. In this case it was imgaa that was the site with those ads on it. I believe picman has now removed it from from the host list that the uploaded image gets disseminated out to. Neither of us noticed the issue of it having porn ads on it due to both of us using thorough ad-blocking measures to keep all ads and tracking at bay while browsing the net.
Even default uBlock Origin should be enough to block those ads on that site though. Brave has built in adblocking I believe, so that likely was why they weren't showing in that browser for you. I recommend you add uBlock to your Chrome browser though, so you won't see ads anywhere when you use that browser just like when you use Brave.
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