TinyPic shutdown - time to update your avatar

[Dirk]

TinyPic will be permanently shutting down on September 16, 2019, the last day for TinyPic account holders to access their accounts and download their images, including thebigbird and his 2TB Lebron photo album.

Time to update your avatar https://forums.realgm.com/boards/ucp.php?i=ucp_profile&mode=avatar

Alternatives to host the images.
https://imgur.com/
https://imgbb.com/
https://catbox.moe/
https://postimages.org/

Idea to retrieve your old avatar.

If it helps anybody who had a specific avatar they wanted to keep, these are some steps I gave over on the Bucks board (the best little board! ) that should hopefully help you out.

I noticed a few people have the TinyPic error/goodbye message turning up as their avatar. I had that issue, the files are gone from TinyPic but if you want to grab the exact file you can do it by;
1. going to your profile on realgm, then "edit avatar" and under there the URL it had been hosted at should be in "Link off-site" (if you try to go directly to that link you'll just get the same error message)
2. go to the Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/web/ and paste that URL for your image in there under "browse history" to see if it has any hits for the file (it hopefully will, I could fine mine so the archive was trawling either realgm or tinypic)
3. save that archive version and upload somewhere else (I popped mine on https://imgur.com/ ) then just update the URL for your avatar

[Forte IV]

First photobucket going payed subscription making me lose years of dope graphics now this

[Dominator83]

Avatars are a pain in the ass now. I've went to imgbb, imgur, imageshack. They all give 4 or so links. Not a single one of them has worked for avatars here when I tried applying them. None. They work for posting photos in threads, but not avatars

[Texas Chuck]

Looks like Barea laying out Blake survived the purge...

[Repeat 3-peat]

Avatars are a pain in the ass now. I've went to imgbb, imgur, imageshack. They all give 4 or so links. Not a single one of them has worked for avatars here when I tried applying them. None. They work for posting photos in threads, but not avatars

With Imgur, after you upload the image, 'right click' on the image and select "copy image address".

It's what I did with my signature.

[iLLmatic860]

Wont let me use it

[miamiheat319]

Oh thank god somebody posted this. I’m sick of thinking it’s just the same person paying with that avatar lol

[The Warrior]

Damn I made Dirk’s cut.

I will certainly update my picture. Thank you GOAT.

Sucks that they’re permanently shutting down. :|


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[Clyde Frazier]

Clyde is strong! odd how many people's went down and mine survived... I'll hang on til the end

[GeorgeMarcus]

I like my tiny pic avatar because it sounds like tiny dick, and self-deprecating humor is great

[GeorgeMarcus]

The yellow circle man (who represents me) is clearly very frustrated about it

[stellation]

If it helps anybody who had a specific avatar they wanted to keep, these are some steps I gave over on the Bucks board (the best little board! ) that should hopefully help you out.

I noticed a few people have the TinyPic error/goodbye message turning up as their avatar. I had that issue, the files are gone from TinyPic but if you want to grab the exact file you can do it by;
1. going to your profile on realgm, then "edit avatar" and under there the URL it had been hosted at should be in "Link off-site" (if you try to go directly to that link you'll just get the same error message)
2. go to the Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/web/ and paste that URL for your image in there under "browse history" to see if it has any hits for the file (it hopefully will, I could fine mine so the archive was trawling either realgm or tinypic)
3. save that archive version and upload somewhere else (I popped mine on https://imgur.com/ ) then just update the URL for your avatar

[macNcheese3]

Damn it!

[azcatz11]

I don't know where my previous avi is - someone made it for me =/

[Lalouie]

First photobucket going payed subscription making me lose years of dope graphics now this

photobucket was watermarking my images...screw them!

i use imgur now but damn that site has a screwy interface

LOL

[azcatz11]

First photobucket going payed subscription making me lose years of dope graphics now this

photobucket was watermarking my images...screw them!

i use imgur now but damn that site has a screwy interface

LOL

Good opportunity to change your avi to the Arizona logo

[Crunch 99]

I've been kind of enjoying this --- an invasion of the Tinypic people.

[azcatz11]

I've been kind of enjoying this --- an invasion of the Tinypic people.

sup

[Ice Trae]

Good riddance to my cringe “what in the **** am I doing with my face here” phase in high school. I would have deleted my account earlier but i forgot my pw and list my email associated to that account

[Ice Trae]

The yellow circle man (who represents me) is clearly very frustrated about it

3 inches is all you need baby... or at least that’s what I like to believe