Doesn't make any difference to me, but you screwed any Freepers on dial up or with a slow connection who wanted to see the thread. It bogs down their system, and you could have put a link for people who wanted to see it, or downloaded it from the web site, cropped to the significant part, and then reduced the quality to where it would have been a couple of hundred kilobytes.
What you did was rude. If everyone posted as thoughtlessly as you, the site would slow to a complete crawl.