Don't be fooled. Despite making up 99% of throwaway accounts, only 1 salty anon is responsible for the bulk.

On a more serious note, yeah, lack of features. It's understandable tough, serving media is e x p e n s i v e.
Tough integrating your thrid party favourite, like imgur or federated software would be a choice solution here.

Basically some bb-codes to embed certain media. Links are a good way to do that right now, maybe using a client side script to enhance the experience would be an intermediate solution? tough you gotta trust your sources :)