You might want to know that just about any image on GameSpot, including profile pics, is hosted on GameSpot's own servers, specifically the sub-domains like static1.gamespot.com & static2.gamespot.com. Even if you try to link images from elsewhere, what GameSpot's user tools do is they download those images to these servers and display these copies instead.
I don't perfectly recall the reasons for this change, but I remember they included both security and stability issues. I am inclined to believe that there are more of the latter - GameSpot didn't earn its nickname "GlitchSpot" for nothing after all.
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