If you're male, do you use an anime girl avatar for your profile picture? If so, why?
Bayek said: Sheklon said: Yeah, I relate a great deal to Hinata Kuraue (my profile pic) and just wanted to pick something comfy for her. I don't need to be a teenage girl or think of her as my "waifu" to connect to her character. I just mix & match and it's not my fault if someone gets the wrong idea without ever interacting with me.Both liking the character and the aesthetic of the image, but also, I generally choose pictures which makes me feel represented, at least partially, in terms of personality, interests, worldview or simply mood, regardless of gender or nature. When it's a character, they're most likely among my favorites for the same reasons. As for games, I just pick females to look at a pretty 2D girls, no big mystery. Exactly. Relating to or admiring a character can sometimes be as simple as relating to or admiring a real person. Or maybe even further than that, since they're ideal versions of real characteristics. |
| This is the age old question, isn't it? |
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| Because it has a nice art, because they like girls, because girls are cute, because they like it, because they want |
| Well, what do you expect? They like girls and also partly because sex sells. It's all part of infatuation and idolizing of girl characters. I had Selvaria as my avatar before. |
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| Ngl it creeps me out too when I see a man use some cute 15 yo anime girl as pfp too but I used to have on before so I can't really say anything |
| شقایق، اینجا من، خیلی غریبم |
| it's good eye candy, people like cute girls. |
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| straight men find anime girls cute. straight women find anime boys cute. people like keeping things they like as their profile pictures. |
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Fatephile said: Ngl it creeps me out too when I see a man use some cute 15 yo anime girl as pfp too but I used to have on before so I can't really say anything Says the grown ass man with a 12-13 y/o boy in his avatar. That's an omegayikes from me dawg. OT: That'd be on you OP, for assuming their intent with the avatar is signaling their own image to you. |
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| Well, my profile pic isn't from an anime, its from an old visual novel (and card game) on the PC-98 called Ace of Spades. Its a trashy hentai game, but has really nice art and a killer soundtrack. I'm a big fan of chiptune music and retro anime artwork, so it fits the tone of what I like pretty well (plus I'm into trashy stuff). Here's some tunes from the game: |
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| Times online use to be simple when i was actively kicking around the Youtube community during '010 '011 Guy used an anime guy icon Girl used an anime girl icon Guess that's not the norm anymore. |
| This is the only place where you can have one without being shamed for it |
| no - because fido is superior. character limit character limit |
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| :l, it doesn't matter I put it because I like how the pfp looks, I don't think too much about it |
| Man, not even in the Anime forum are you safe from being called out for being a weeb. |
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| Because they secretly identify themselves as cute little anime girls. Wussies. Jokes aside I guess the purpose and meaning of avatars has changed over time. Back in the day people used avatar meant photos that somewhat represent/resemble your own self. Dudes used to put relatively masculine avatars on their profile. Same thing goes with girls. Nowadays people use photos that they find pretty or funny. That's it. In this website guys like cute anime girls, so they just slap it in their profile. |
| HOLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! |
| Want to be a girl, like 7% of people here it seems Crack said: This is the only place where you can have one without being shamed for it I've one on Facebook, Twitter, Discord, my sweatshirt and my personal online mail |
EmiliaHoarfrostApr 24, 2022 2:41 PM
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Opticflash said: Very rarely does the reverse happen where a girl or woman will choose a male figure. Rare? Really?? So I'm basically 1 in a million? Regardless of my fav character, all this time in any of my social media I've always use male characters as pfp. Never have I use female one. Now since I found my one absolute and definite fav character, I will use him everywhere in my account. |
  𝑇𝐼𝑃𝑆 𝐼𝑁 𝐺𝐼𝑁𝑇𝐴𝑀𝐴 - NOT your usual shounen anime - Pure comedy? DEAD WRONG - Treat Gintama as SoL/weekly sitcom especially earlier seasons - Ep 1 & 2 are for manga readers - BIG patience for its 'slow' start |
| Why do i have a profile pic of a monkey with a gun? Because I like it and there's no rule saying I can't. Same thing here. Simple as that. |
| to brag about their taste in 2D women |
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| I like cats. People should put whatever picture they like on their profile. This is an internet forum and we're here to have fun. |
| Because typically it’s just a cute character someone likes and they want to be associated with online. Not that I would know, though, my avatar is Shinji shitting on a urinal. |
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| Because they are waifuuu... it's just showing your love for waifu |
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| Because I'm on the prowl for some delectable bussy. |
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| Because watching a female is easier on the eyes for me The only exception I'm making is for games where the story mode would look ridiculous with anything but a human(-looking) male character, as in having a romance with a human(-looking) female character hinted |
| Because they want to be women (women are awesome) |
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Narmy said: I'm more confused as to why a guy would use an anime boy as their profile pic. That's pretty gay tbh. I agree my friend that's pretty gae. Even Girls use girl chars and that's not because they are girl... 'Cuz they also know girl chars are way cuter |
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| Non-anime fans ask why men use cartoon profile pictures. Some people only ever use a picture of themselves for all accounts. Different strokes for different folks. Personally, I already know what I look like so I don’t need to see myself on every account. I use the picture that I want to look at for my accounts. That said, look what happened on MAL when I changed things up and used pics of myself instead. People got jealous. People complained. So there is no winning. Just use the picture that you like. |
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