On the contrary, in my opinion, this isn't a joke, and since the "punchline" was likely to draw attention to the article from people that might be more interest

On the contrary, in my opinion, this isn't a joke, and since the "punchline" was likely to draw attention to the article from people that might be more interested in a debate over the wisdom of using SQLite "trivially" like this than a generic discussion of image formats, it was useful and shouldn't have been removed from the title.