Know Your Meme - Like, what happened?

Yet another unnecessary visual change nobody asked for and nobody was asked for in advance, because user feedback is just a background thought considered after damage is done around here, apparently. Like, even Twitch streamers have the common decency of at LEAST announcing that there will be some kind of visual change done to their channel in the future, and most of them are not even professional workers of any kind.

Whatever did happen, it ruined my ability to click images. I have to always open them in new tabs now.