Media Library Filling Up With Images ????

Why is my media library filling up with images ?

I’ll create a post that has an image which has no image in the post, nor as a featured image, yet has a “reference” to splash screen image in the shortcode. The media library sees that as another image that it should keep track of even though that image has already been accounted for somewhere else. Why is WP all of a sudden keeping track of images that it already has a reference for ?

Short code ? [fvplayer src=”http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/xxxxx/xxxxxx/video.mp4″ width=”880″ height=”480″ controlbar=”yes” splash=”http://xxxxxxxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/filesplash-101-Title.jpg”]

So to put this in perspective, this is what my media library USED to look like:

http://imgur.com/yuBgXvz

And this is what it looks like NOW:

http://imgur.com/x1fLLSm

Something is seriously frakkin’ wrong. WTF ?!??!?!