except for a few attempts [@manikonda2017modeling; @andalibi2017sensitive; @reece2017instagram; @ahsan2017towards], these investigations have seldom studied extraction of emotional state from visual content of images in posted/profile images. Visual content can express users’ emotions more vividly, and psychologists noted that imagery is an effective medium for communicating difficult emotions[^3].

According to eMarketer[^4], photos accounted for 75% of content posted on Facebook worldwide and they are the most engaging type of content on Facebook (87%). Indeed, “a picture is worth a thousand words” and now “photos are worth a million likes.” Similarly, on Twitter, the tweets with image links get twice as much attention as those without [^5], and video-linked tweets drive up engagement [^6]. The ease and naturalness of expression through visual imagery can serve to glean depression-indicators in vulnerable individuals who often seek social support through social media [@seabrook2016social]. Further, as psychologist Carl Rogers highlights, we often pursue and promote our Ideal-Self [^7]. In this regard, the choice of profile image can be a proxy for the online persona [@liu2016analyzing], providing a window into an individual’s mental health status. For instance, choosing emaciated legs of girls covered with several cuts as profile image portrays negative self-view [@montesano2017depression].

Inferring demographic information like 