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Two things make up all internet avatars

Reecer6Reecer6
edited 2011-03-14 14:34:28 in General
Homestuck (especially trolls) and animesque. It's like no one cares about things that aren't Death Note or Terezi or something (I just picked 2 topics out of the blue there, not like every animesque avatar is Death note and every Homestuck avatar is Terezi)! Now don't get me wrong, I like Homestuck and in fact have a Homestuck avatar on the MSPA forums and lots of people like anime, but seriously. I only have that one Homeatar because it's THE MSPA FORUMS.
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  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    You're right! Everyone should use ponies instead.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    This is obviously overstating things.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Anime encompasses kinda a lot anyway.
  • Reecer6Reecer6
    That doesn't change that a lot of people use them, no matter how general. I mean, how many people use western animation avatars?
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    A few. You just need to look around the fora more.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    edited 2011-03-14 14:27:03
    Because you never know what you might see.
    ^^ Well, over 28% of the posts in this thread so far, for starters.

    In fact, none of the individual avatars in this thread so far are wholly Japanese cartoons, only two of them are partially Japanese cartoons, and one of them is yours.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Homestuck is western animation.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I don't feel like using a different avatar.  Sorry.

    In any case, you forgot all the freakin' ponies.  As well as all the prettyboys and prettygirls.

    Also, you may want to revise your statement to be "animesque" rather than "anime".
  • Reecer6Reecer6
    ^^ Well, I define western animation as cartoons made non animesquely, so to me it's just a webcomic.

    ^ What not animesque? :P
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    edited 2011-03-14 14:37:25
    Because you never know what you might see.
    ^^ I don't even know what "animesque" means anymore.  It gets applied to everything.

    Anyway, in reality I think the things that make up the most avatars are characters (fictional or otherwise, and especially from the waist or shoulders up).  Except on LiveJournal, where it's words, usually in the form of snarky jokes or trite platitudes.

    ^ Homestuck is a cartoon which isn't animesque.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    It is, however, animesesque.

    /stupid meme
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    I don't get it... what meme is that?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Question for Reeceer6: Are the following animesque, and why or why not?
    * Gunnerkrigg Court
    * Avatar: the Last Airbender
    * Boondocks
    * Donkey Kong Country
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    LIES
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    ^^^It's kind of a fan joke that Andrew Hussie has a firm grasp on the "animes".
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss

    I thought the two things were going to be "Length" and "Width".

    As for the topic, there are a lot of fad followers, but a significant portion of people tend to have their own distinct theme / style when picking avatars.

  • DYREDYRE
    Ahah!  My avatar isn't an anime avatar, because there's no Yotsuba&! anime!

    ...

    -cries because there's no Yotsuba&! anime and there never will be-
  • NoimportaNoimporta
    Well, my biggest frame of reference is the TV Tropes forum, but I've also seen lots of webcomic avatars, as well as actors/actresses/models...

    And one nazi bird.
  • LongfellowLongfellow
    La vie en rose
    I use Super Mario Kart sprites :)
  • PonicalicaPonicalica
    edited 2011-03-14 18:28:38
    (void)
    Drawn/animated things, like touhous and the animes and the homestucks and the ponies, tend to make better avatars because they have cleaner lines than, say, photographs, and this makes them resize better.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    And I thought that one thing makes up all internet avatars: pixels.
  • AnonusAnonus
    Also Homestuck's rough art looks cleaner when it is resized.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]
    edited 2012-07-22 18:30:04

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  • DYREDYRE
    ^^^ ...maybe.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    edited 2011-03-14 18:46:19
    Cue-bey
    Ha! My avatar is middle-easternn! Suck, it mainstream.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Mine is North Western.
  • NyktosNyktos
    edited 2011-03-15 00:01:26
    a little muffled
    Mine is from a piece of art from an American card game depicting a man from a fictional world inspired by Japan.
  • KhwarizmiKhwarizmi
    Because you never know what you might see.
    Mine is a Scottish character living in England from an English TV series produced in Wales by a Scottish writer/producer.
  • AnonusAnonus
    edited 2011-03-15 01:55:09
    Mine is a cartoon pony from a cartoon show intended to sell pony toys to eight-year-old girls on a channel no one has heard of.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    edited 2011-03-15 02:10:45
    Mine is a cartoon pony from a cartoon show intended to sell pony toys to eight-year-old girls on a channel no one has heard of.
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