Remove unnecessary lazy loading of avatars, emojis, and smilies

[Merri]

Current XenForo 2.3 sets loading="lazy" attribute on all avatars, emojis, and smilies. Here are reasons why this attribute is unnecessary:

1. These are small images. Loading them wasn't a problem in the late dial-up modem era of the internet.
2. These images repeat a lot, reducing the point of loading the lazily: why load lazily an image that exists multiple times on a page?
3. There can be a lot of these images in the first immediate view, for example on the new posts page...

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