The Oldest Image of Your Profile Pic

[Sijih]

There's a site called TinEye that lets you look up images by file/url and sort by oldest (Google doesn't let you sort by oldest). Reverse image search your profile picture and see what's lurking in your profile picture's shadowy past.
Tell us about interesting websites, filenames, or whatever from your profile picture's digital youth. Hopefully the link to the webpage that has the original image on it isn't down, sometimes there's some really cool stuff.

How to get your smogon profile picture

Smogon basically hosts 2 versions of your picture:
a 48 by 48 pixel one they use in the top right of your page/on profile messages
a 192 by 192 pixel one they use in posts to a thread and on your profile picture
I recommend using the 192 by 192 one. Go to your profile page, right click on the big profile picture at the top, and click 'open image in new tab'.
Copy paste the url of the new tab into TinEye.

My profile picture is just a really generic stock photo. Only interesting thing about it is that the first instance of it was on a website called 'World of Stock', which was presumably a stock photo website back then but is now dedicated to securities and stocks (with lots of articles about marijuana stocks and snack food stocks...) Unfortunately, they did their due diligence and took down the original page, so I can't even see what the cow picture was originally priced at.

 

[Bughouse]

Dunno where it was painted but it was in 1888 and it now hangs in the Mekhitarist monastery San Lazzaro degli Armeni in Venice

 

[MAMP]

this is a screencap i took from near the end of the simpsons s05e19, "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song."

 

[Sijih]

guess I drastically overestimated the amount of people who just steal their profile picture from random images they see on google or other websites

quite unfortunate

 

[Ullar]

mine's of Francisca, a villain (turned friend) from Kirby: Star Allies

 

[Plague von Karma]

My avatar is the Mad Hatter from this ancient Japanese Tabletop RPG called Silver Rain. Iirc this thing was made in like, 2007 on Blingee, and was cropped at some point. It looks fuckin cool tho.

Here's what was likely the basis for it.

Weebs in 2007 were wack man

Thanks to R-B-Y for going on the ridiculous deep dive for this stuff on my profile btw lol

 

[BIG ASHLEY]

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/pridemons-requests-open.3665487/post-8507493

shoutouts dramps

 

[doipy hooves]

Just a photo of David Suzuki cackling - vancouverisawesome.com, December 18, 2013, by Bob Kronbauer. Apparently this site is the first and only source of this image, which is kind of neat. I had the picture saved from use in a past school project, probably because it looked funny.

 

[Ivy]

original avatars need not apply

 

[Sijih]

original avatars need not apply

You can give us your thought process when you made the avatar!

How did yours come about? Halloween festivities? Acid Trip? Communion with the supernatural? Is that actually a small bird flying around with a conveniently marked napkin draped over it? Binge watching Casper the Friendly Ghost?

Don't leave us in suspense

 

[kakaks]

oshawott from home

 

[zxgzxg]

I was bored one day, so, using my amazing Microsoft Paint skills, I recolored that sailor guy and Zeraora into Jotaro and Star Platinum from Jojo's Bizzare Adventure.

I know, I'm a weeb, you don't have to tell me.

 

[Martin]

I was bored one day, so, using my amazing Microsoft Paint skills, I recolored that sailor guy and Zeraora into Jotaro and Star Platinum from Jojo's Bizzare Adventure.

I know, I'm a weeb, you don't have to tell me.

If you think liking Jojo = weeb then you’re not ready for the big league

 

[GatoDelFuego]

Apparently the oldest usages come from 2008 eastern European forums on "persiantools", bikemag.hu, and russian blogs. There it spun into photo sharing websites within a year. Went semi viral around 2009.

This one was a nice 2008 lolcats meme

 

[Bayleef030]

My avatar is a cropped version of a gif I found on Tumblr. This comes from the Pokemon episode 'Turning Over A New Bayleef', in which Ash is a dick towards his Bayleef. And so, she runs away. An old woman finds her and is way kinder to her than Ash has ever been. When Ash finds the old woman, he wants his Pokemon back, but Bayleef is furious and refuses to accept Ash's apology. When Team Rocket captures Bayleef and several other Pokemon, Ash saves her and apologises to her for being a dick. Bayleef forgives him.

 

[Tmi489]

wow i wonder what my avatar's based on
i can't find anything that would really fit me so it's kinda stuck

 

[Yung Dramps]

Dragon Ball Chapter 130 during the 22nd Tenkaichi Budokai when Goku uses sunglasses to counter Tenshinhan's Solar Flare. More specifically this version comes from the color edition of the manga. Mans just couldn't handle the raw swag

 

[S1nn0hC0nfirm3d]

I made a dumb logo years ago and it didnt fit the profile pic dimensions and its all zoomed in but like its whatever man i couldnt be bothered to care to fix it

 

[MegaBanette69]

Lol mine was just a shiny Banette gif off of google

EDIT: Oh wait i'm dum you're talking bout' our current pics well in that case its just a picture of a fancy Dracovish I made on google drawings.

 

[Snessy!]

It comes from the "Dream No More" ending of Hollow Knight

 

[haleszarz]

My first photo on my Facebook account is when I took it in the park with my wife on the wedding day. The photo was taken in a park where are always a lot of people, so I fixed the wedding photo using photoshop, so there wasn't anyone in the photo. We are married already for eight years, and I recently changed for the first time profile picture. Many of my friends wondered. After all, they laughed at me because they were saying that I will never change that photo. In such moments I can't even realize how much time went by since the time we took that photo and how fastly time flies.

 

[toaster04]

This isn't a joke, I actually used this as my oldest pfp on smogon which I found pretty funny looking back

 

[Ryota Mitarai]

Not the oldest (because the oldest is just some lame meme), but I got this cursed anime ending. I assume it's a previous pfp of the uploader, given their name happens to be Ryota Mitarai

 

[BIG ASHLEY]

saw sijih's avatar in front of this thread and thought they'd returned why must you toy with me so