What do you call the image that displays on forum posts or next to text on Discord?

[Ranger]

Because people on Discord really needed to know.

[Guest]

Picture profile (pfp) or Avatar.

[Lucilyn]

the terms come from totally different places, avatar has always been a forum thing while profile pic has been a social media thing, like you'd never call a picture of yourself on facebook an avatar, but you shouldn't call Lumi's moon a profile pic either - there are biographies on the forum but usually pfp implies the picture one would see on your profile, while avatar is used universally across the internet to refer to the picture associated with your account

 

they're definitely mostly interchangeable and it's fine to say profile pic on Discord even though there are no profiles on Discord, as a carried over term from a long time ago, but yeah profile pic probably came from sites like Neopets (only example I can think of) where people didn't even see your PFP unless they went to your profile, whereas avatar came from basically all sites where you didn't use a picture of yourself but some other random thing, but yeah they're still interchangeable etc.