Your intention wasn’t just to point out an iconic photo, it was to ridicule the people in it, as indicated by the rest of your post in the OP:
Most of the subsequent posts in the thread before I moved it were also ridiculing the people in the photo and were also most appropriate for the Pit. Given the way you started out, and the subsequent posts, the Pit was really the only place for it.
I’m really puzzled by what you mean by this, and whether by OP you mean “original poster” or “original post.”
If you mean “original poster,” no one fired away at you. Everybody fired away at the people in the photo, not at you.
If you mean “original post,” everyone who posted in the thread agreed with you that the people in the photo were idiots.
It seems to me your thread got a positive reaction even in the Pit. I really don’t know what you are complaining about.