Judging people by their avatars?

[Prudence]

This is a topic in one of the other forums I'm on. So, do you ever find yourself judging people by their avatars in any way? If someone has an avatar with horrible quality and thinks it's the best of the best, I think said someone is a pest. X-P Another thing I don't like is when someone's avie is so HUGE that it kills the screen.

I also usually keep to pictures and female characters in avatars, as people tend to mistake me for a male online if I do not.

One girl said something that I found to be quite funny. She said, "This is sort of stupid of me, but I always think people look like their avatars. Like, if yours is a picture of a leaf, I will think you look like a leaf." I think we all tend to do that, at least somewhat.

[Just Myself]

One girl said something that I found to be quite funny. She said, "This is sort of stupid of me, but I always think people look like their avatars. Like, if yours is a picture of a leaf, I will think you look like a leaf." I think we all tend to do that, at least somewhat.

I'm like that alot with the Lukester. Example: For the past month, I swore he was Mickey Rooney. True story.

Cheers,
JM

[Loomis]

I can only think what people will think about me based on my avatar at the moment...

I tend to judge people by images associated with them, and certain members of this community will long be associated with some of their earlier avatars that I remember seeing them constantly use.

[Luke]

I'm like that alot with the Lukester. Example: For the past month, I swore he was Mickey Rooney. True story.

I guess I've been downgraded from the Mickster.

Echoing all the posts in this thread, yes, the eye-catching avatar pretty much becomes associated with a member in my head. Loomis is always happy in HKDL, Fidget is the Dunder-Mifflin man, Netty is a bald character that's been deleted from "Steamboat Willie" and so on...

[Siren]

People probably think I am a nudist or something else of a s*xual nature. The hairless cat on my shoulder in itself could be taken as a strong innuendo. But literally, I have a hairless cat as a pet, nothing innuendo about it. But I was once talking about how this woman was fighting to go topless in Daytona Beach and the whole thing was very ironic because I have the same topless Siren gargoyle avatar there.

I WISH I looked like her.

[bradhig]

Mine is how I feel Anastasia should have ended. Maybe I need something else. A skyway car photo maybe I don't know.

[Mr. Toad]

My daughter and Mickey Mouse. Love em both to death.

[RachelSmachel]

Escapay=Gromit. That is all.

[James]

Yeah, that's so true. Everyone's avatars ae them. Like Aaron is Amy Grant and Loomis, you are that guy with The Sorcerors Apprentice hat. It's just a plus that people could possibly think that I'm Heath Ledger. I was actually seriously debating a few days ago about changing it to Britney Spears, but her look now throws a spanner in the works. Maybe back to The L Word, I loved that one, it's my fave.
-James

[slave2moonlight]

My problem is seeing an avatar and thinking that the person in it is the sex of the person I'm talking to. I see someone with Ariel in the avatar, I think I'm talking to a girl. On top of that, subconciously, I think I'm talking to someone who looks like the person in the avatar. I occasional catch myself doing that. Worst part is, I'm usually wrong about the sex to begin with. I had to get used to the idea that, at least half the time, the character or celeb in the avatar is someone they person likes, not someone they identify with, so guys often have girls in the avatar (even me, now), and girls often have guys, or same sex if they're gay/lesbian. Basically, it comes down to not being able to tell anything from the avatar except a certain character, movie, or celeb that the person probably likes.

[universALLove]

So what does mine say about me?

[TheSequelOfDisney]

I wonder what everyone could possibly think about me?

[Nandor]

That's easy. You're Emmy, so you're hot.

[myr_heille]

Nandor, you are obviously very evil

Maybe people think I'm actually three talking household things!!

[slave2moonlight]

Well, I've changed mine again, so I'm Jack Sparrow. Now, people will think I'm sexy!

[DaveWadding]

does this make me slightly frightening?

[Lars Vermundsberget]

I guess I remain a total mystery, then.

[universALLove]

I guess I remain a total mystery, then.

same here, lol.

[Dottie]

I guess I remain a total mystery, then.

same here, lol.

Why? You look like Cinderella!

[~Daniel~]

Maybe people think I'm actually three talking household things!!

So your not?

For me, avatars are just a way of remembering people. Nothing more.

My avie right now, just might make people remember the deer they fell in love with. The deer you felt incredibly sorry for, the deer with one of the best sequels! and a cool moving butterfly, to boot!