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Your profile: photo, banner, links, badges and security

Set your profile photo and banner, name, bio, pronouns and location, add social links, pin your best skins, choose who sees what, turn on 2FA and collect badges.

4 min read · 3 steps · Beginner

Step 1: Photo and banner

Open Profile. Click your round picture (Change photo) to upload a profile photo, and Change banner to upload a wide banner across the top.

Your profile also shows your stats, like public skins and followers.

Step 2: Edit profile

Press Edit profile. It has these sections:

Profile: Display Name, Username (3–20 letters, numbers or underscores — it tells you if it is free), bio, Pronouns, Gender (optional, private by default) and Location (optional — shown on your profile and used to suggest creators near you).

Privacy: Profile Visibility public or private — who can see what.

Social links: Instagram, Reddit, YouTube and Twitch. Type the username or paste your profile link. Visitors only see the icon and @name.

Featured skins: pin up to 3 of your public skins to the top of your profile.

Security: protect your account with 2FA (an authenticator app code), and link more sign-ins (Google, Discord, Microsoft).

Account: your User ID, Public User ID, email status and the date you joined.

Step 3: Badges and sharing

Badges show on your profile: Early Supporter (joined in the early days), Top Creator (consistently great skins) and Contest Winner (won an event — see the Events guide).

On a public profile, Copy profile link and Copy User ID make sharing easy. Orbit follows the creator, and More options lets you report a profile.

The Creators tab suggests creators to orbit.

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