>>75378
"THe internet nevar forgets" is, like any internet law, a guideline, rather than a set-in-stone matter of physical reality. It technically could be possible to wipe any trace of an image off the internet but it may prove difficult to do. When you upload something to the internet there is multiple paths of where the copies may go. First is individuals saving those pictures, so they save them to their hard drives and now they have a copy. They may share if you ask nicely, but if the hard drive fails it will be gone. Then we have archives which scrape the content so if the original author deletes them it will still hold up on the archive, but that's assuming the archive doesn't go down 5ever in which case if no one has saved it from them, it will still be up. In this way, archives are a sort of way to hold onto content for someone else to come along and save it, and the longer the archive has been up for, the more likely it is someone will have saved a pic from there.
Who has what copy is divided into 2 types: holders and Hosters. Holders are individuals who have an image saved, hosters are those individuals who host the saved images at a website.