DAE feel kinda uncomfortable having a fictional character as their pfp? ive only really started doing it a year ago and even now i dont have any pretty depictions of characters, just a vague drawing from a far away scene.it kinda feels like having a character as ur pfp is u trying to say ''hey i look/am like this character'' and that seems deceptive towards myself and others when i know im not even close to looking as good as an idealized character and my personality is not as easy to romanticise as that of an idealized character.
>>43556673so change ur pfp idiot. My pfp is a picture of a piece of cardboard
>>43556684ur supposed to this of this deeply!!
>>43556686rhink**** FUCK
>>43556673My avatar has been Donkey Kong for the past fifteen years. If I ever change it people message me saying I have to go back to Donkey Kong.
>>43556709kongmoder
>>43556673i get this too but it depends on the context.people form an expectation of your personality based on the jpg next to your name, it's one thing that shapes their image of you along with your writing and interactions with you.how accurate this needs to be, or how much potential inaccuracy i'm willing to tolerate depends on who's going to see it, what it's for.if it's something public like tagmap and i'm expecting strangers might talk to me and get to know me personally on a deeper level, then i'll care a bit more about my first impression and want to avoid giving them any misleading info or weird expectations of me, so in this case i might use something safer like a cool (non-selfie) picture i took that still conveys something about my personality or the things i like.but if it's a private friend group where we already know each other's personalities, then it's safe to be my cringe self and use whatever character avatar i like.or maybe it's a public thing but i'm not expecting to form any deep connections there - maybe a random gaming profile - then it's similar to the friend group case. i don't really care about presenting an accurate impression of my personality to some strangers that aren't going to know me personally to begin with. or maybe they will, but that's rare and happens over time through writing where they'll learn what the real me is like.or maybe maybe this is just a parallel construction and my actual issue is being scared of the bullies living rent free in my head. it's easier to express more of your personality around safe people. or alternatively, if you feign confidence. in contexts like that, there's no need to limit yourself to safe things you can't be bullied for. just my game theory.
>>43556673I exclusively use Pokemon and abstract designs as my profile picture to prevent people from thinking I identify with a specific character just because of my profile pic...
>>43556673>it kinda feels like having a character as ur pfp is u trying to say ''hey i look/am like this character''people who believe this and get mad at you for not following it, as thought it's a rule or something, are cattlei do not expect people i interact with to think i actually look like sakura kyouko. that would be a stupid conclusion to draw from me using a pfp of her. if i took the time to preemptively correct every stupid mistake other people could make about me i would never get anything done.
>>43556673that's why album cover pfps are deeptech
>>43556673I usually use it to signal what kind of characters I jerk off to.
>>43556709nobody will care about your profile picture more than for an hour
>>43557480madoka pfp... tranny... are you perchance annoying and vocal on twitter too?
>>43556673i use ugly old men as my PFPs to mentally prepare myself for when I become one.a tranny sent me that picture recently...
