Image not displaying in view. Laravel

This may be caused you are in a route which does not represent the base URL. You should generate the URL for your assets relative to the public/ folder. Use URL::asset('path/to/asset') to generate the URL.

{{ URL::asset("images/users/{$follower->id}/profilePictures/50thumb-{$follower->profilePicture->url}") }}

Or as @lukasgeiter mentioned you can simply use asset('path/to/asset') helper.

You can try with the

php artisan storage:link

else you can use this

A simple fix for the issue (linked broken error) in .env file

APP_URL=http://localhost

this replace with the

APP_URL=http://localhost:8000

then the issue will be fixed.