# Profile picture source
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 4, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191 "2019-10-04T03:28:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Islander](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Islander)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/1 "2019-10-04T03:28:11Z")
I just created a profile in our forum while we are still testing it and when I first logged in, bam, its bringing my profile pic as well. I remember I used to have this pic in some social media back then but not anymore. so where is it bringing the pic from? Very curious to know.
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/2 "2019-10-04T04:16:00Z")
It’s [Gravatar](https://en.gravatar.com/) and it’s based on the email you used during registration.
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### Author:  [@\_alejandro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/_alejandro)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/3 "2019-10-04T04:21:16Z")
Is there a way to disable the gravatars?
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/4 "2019-10-04T04:22:43Z")
Yes, you can switch off the `automatically_download_gravatars` site setting if you don’t want that functionality on your forum.
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### Author:  [@Islander](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Islander)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/5 "2019-10-04T04:22:43Z")
I can assure you that this pic isnt even on my email id so how is it coming from there? I think its locating from some social media. My email id has a avatar not the real pic but this one is real
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### Author:  [@\_alejandro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/_alejandro)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/6 "2019-10-04T04:27:22Z")
but i mean, if i disable that, the user can still choose the gravatar…
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/7 "2019-10-04T04:35:02Z")
> [@Islander](#):
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> I can assure you that this pic isnt even on my email id so how is it coming from there?
How did you create the account? Did you use one of the social login options on the forum? If so, some services provide Discourse with the avatar associated with the account you use to authenticate the account on the forum.
> [@\_alejandro](#):
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> if i disable that, the user can still choose the gravatar…
Disabling Gravatar is not currently supported, but you can use CSS to hide it.
```plaintext
.avatar-selector {
.avatar-choice:nth-child(2) {
display: none;
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@Islander](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Islander)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/8 "2019-10-04T04:59:51Z")
> [@Johani](#):
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> How did you create the account? Did you use one of the social login options on the forum? If so, some services provide Discourse with the avatar associated with the account you use to authenticate the account on the forum.
I created using my yahoo email ID. But the pic I had on some social media once which was linked to this email ID
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2023, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/9 "2023-06-02T11:00:21Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2023, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-pic-source/130191/10 "2023-06-02T11:32:16Z")