> All things IRC lacks.

IRC gives you all the features of a normal client but you've got to create them yourself which itself is a dark-art that's been squandered by today's gimmicky services.

Just because it doesn't have a fancy UI to present the media doesn't mean it can't.

Encode to base64 and post in channel. Decode it back to normal format... IRC is excellent for large amounts of stringed text.

You could even stream the movie in base64 and have a client that captures the data stream and decodes.

The only thing that IRC lacks is a feature to recall conversations where if someone isn't present. But if you're someone who needs that host a bouncer or something.

I personally enjoy entering a blank slate.

sending any reasonably sized jpeg as base64 text will take you several minutes with typical server flood protection