OMFG photobucket is PATHETIC!
It says files greater than 1MB are automatically resized and my files are below 300KB. I have another picture that is bigger in dimension but smaller in file size which is weird but w.e. So i thought: "hmm, maybe if i slightly crop the picture - cut some unnecessary space!"
So I deleted the old pic off photobucket and updated the newer file. It had the same name so photobucket thought it was being smart by not reupdating and just show the same old pic! So I deleted it again and decided to rename the file and upload it - and it worked. But when I used photobucket to rename it, it put the old shit on there again and automatically resized it (though the new version with the dif. name wasn't resized).
I'm gonna move to a new host!
and Zegovia, it's not the [img] tag that made the picture smaller - I can't even view the full-sized pic on photobucket because it automatically resized it there and saved a smaller version. GRR