You’re absolutely spot on that it was a lazy loading issue. Thanks for picking this up.
Because in Bricks you can build anything from scratch, even search results content, all I had to do was switch loading from lazy to eager on the image in my search results layout that I’d created.
But I really appreciate you sourcing and writing that code for me as well.
Now, about my second issue – the fact that instead of showing nothing when there are no results, but instead showing everything.
Any ideas on that front? Happy for you to just make suggestions for me to explore further.