DEFINITELY NOT!!!
If that were done in EVERY stream, Imgflip would get LOADED with SPAM.
Something some MAJOR company came up with decades ago is "door pages" for websites. Register a boatload of domain names dealing with the same topic and have computer-generated "home" pages for each one. Those pages then all FORWARD to the same site. Each page is just a "front door" to the same site.
What would happen is individual advertisers ("Gee, I started a business!"), people obsessed with some particular topic, issue, etc., would open multiple accounts and load their advertising, propaganda, or whatever, knowing "even though it will only be there a short while, it's still free. If we get 30 views per image and we have 40 images a day from 2x20 accounts and we can repost, that's 30x40 = 1200 views per day."