I was not happy to see so many of my pictures from Photobucket said I'd removed them. So I investigated and discovered the code "width=550" that I placed in my images to allow them to be viewed on the old site was preventing them from being viewed on this site. So I just went through them all and fixed it.
Fortunately this issue doesn't seem to affect the images on the new photo site that I started using after I stopped using Photobucket.
I discovered I could see pictures posted by others who also have this problem by right clicking on the picture and choosing to copy the image URL. Then I pasted it into my web browser. I could see the image that way. Some of those images are really funny.
If you go back to page 6 of this thread in this forum you will see a picture of mine where there is a baby and a teenage Mysterious Mr Gnome. You can tell they are Mysterious Mr Gnomes by their hats.
The first few pages of this thread also now show my original pictures which include pictures of a baby Mysterious Mr Gnome and show him as he turns into a child, a teenager and an adult. Initially I didn't know about the teenage stage of his life and he looked a bit evil to me but it is definitely a teenage Mysterious Mr Gnome.
There is lots of information in this thread if you are curious and care to look through it you might find out a few surprising things. Various people have added their Sims 3 gnome related discoveries in posts here.