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Avatar ? The blue people ? The bald kid ?

I still have yet to see any of these avatars you guys are talking about. 🤷🏻‍♂️

So that everyone on the internet can know I am a dog.

Because I'm not an anonymous person. This is my default username for most of my public stuff, and it's how friends and family find me online. I try to be genuine online; I don't care to hide behind an anonymous profile.

I firmly believe in being a decent, respectable person toward everyone, even when I'm anonymous and don't need to be. Every time I've created an anonymous account, it's just ended up turning into my regular public profile, so why hide under a different username?

The profile pic just helps me stand out a bit more for others who know me here, and friends/family trying to find me. I regularly write video game reviews to post to !games@lemmy.world, so it helps me to be more recognized in the wild. My profile pic is my semi-anonymous profile pic that I use on other platforms when I don't want to broadcast my face to everyone.

I just think it's cute lol

iirc @Instantnudel@feddit.org bullied me into it.

Why not? The avatar feature is there to be used, and it's not like I'm giving out my personal address.

I come from the forum era and old habits die hard

We have avatars? 🤨

In comment sections or in community pages, it's mostly an ocean of default avatars.

When I joined it seemed like most people had an avatar. I have used this one for years, so why not?

I also like recognizing other Lemmings. Username is alright for that, but the image helps even more. It makes it feel like a small community from the internet of old (forums).

I find it easier to follow a thread if I can quickly tell who is saying what. I usually don't remember the usernames so a picture helps there. It's not a necessity of course

I liked the avatar. That's about it.

I prefer posters with avatars, personally.

Completely forgot there are profile avatars on Lemmy. BRB, gotta hop on my desktop to see if I have one set up. Cannot find any settings about it in Voyager ( probably didn't look hard enough or my eyes glossed over it ).

Edit: editing on my browser and I have my favorite Tiny Toons character as my profile avatar. All is good. I don't have many images I use as profile avatars, so Dizzy Devil Ducky it was. At least that;s what I imagine was going through my head.

It's an ornithological avatar. I'm trying to raise mass awareness of a certain avian variety.

ImageAI had a fun post where you input your username as a prompt and see what comes of it. Tadaa, perfect profile picture

There's no compelling reason not to, but to each their own. I'm not judging either way.

But I'm not reusing the same avatar image on multiple platforms either.

I didn't realize its a lesser used feature. There was probably generic auto-assigned pfp and I dont like those.

It makes my username make more sense. Plus, you made this one for me, so there's that. Plus plus, I'm not here to be "anonymous".

I also prefer dealing with people who have images. I dunno, it's just like putting a "face" to the words.

AI garbage drawings were pretty much brand new when I set up my account. So I figured, sure, a lemming astronaut would be fun. And I liked it so I kept it.

As a Reddit refugee (API debacle), I liked not having the same cheesy avatar as everyone else.

because you reminded me

When I first signed up for Lemmy I was just curious to check out how that feature worked (after I found it while browsing through the profile settings to see what was there).

i like cat

Easier to quickly distinguish between users with different-colored indicators for different users. There isn't built-in functionality to do that. If there was, I wouldn't have.

I joined after Reddit’s API changes with that site’s willful negligence of its bot infestation on my mind. If the bar for “this account looks like a human” is raised by human users individualizing themselves more, then that requires more effort on bot makers to disguise their bots as people. Accounts look less bot-like with personalities, particularly those which are neither stereotypically normal nor a caricature of a few base traits. With my “The Son of Man” profile picture, as well as my profile description that is all three of esoteric, farcical, and personal, I wanted to be just the right amount of weird while also subtly (and perhaps subconsciously) commentating on the potentiality of Lemmy eventually falling victim to bot plagues as it grows. Despite all of this, I’ve since come across another user with the same profile picture (with a different level of zoom) who also happened to have the same cake day.

I use the same avatar in every network I'm in. Is kinda my internet persona, although is not "me", its has his own name and everything, Dusk.

It amused me.

I always put an avatar where I can. It gives me a sense of individuality in a sea of unknowns.

I paid for mine on r/hungryartists - I think it's a cool drawing & I am happy with it.

That was a very, very long time ago of course.

Because ^

I like spaceships...

I didn't. So there.

I want to encourage people to talk to me, I wanna make new friends online, also, I have some little info in my profile page

It woofs sadly

All my public facing socials have avatars

Because it's Mimi. She's awesome

I like this place, plus it’s a small enough platform that I thought seeing my comments with a “blank” avi probably gets annoying after a while ¯\(ツ)/¯