Yo, dope Colour Of Pomegranates avatar!
The little heart on the sleeve is what makes the OG avatar for me though. It's adorable.
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I am having an existential crisis because some random person has an avatar like mine [Update: Now a cowboy and doing a giveaway]
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I used to have one I drew in paint on a few forums, would be weird to see that.
This one is from a weird artist I found years ago called Nigel Tomm. He had/has a super pretentious website full of the most generic arty art with nonsensical captions but I always kind of liked these ones, I could never figure out if the website was satire or not. I'd be surprised to see anyone else with this avatar but wouldn't feel like my identity was being stolen.
This one is from a weird artist I found years ago called Nigel Tomm. He had/has a super pretentious website full of the most generic arty art with nonsensical captions but I always kind of liked these ones, I could never figure out if the website was satire or not. I'd be surprised to see anyone else with this avatar but wouldn't feel like my identity was being stolen.
Yeah, maybe that's me.
I don't think we're the only ones with blob emotes. I think I've seen a few others.
We're keeping the blobs alive.
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man. i sure had an existential crisis when a few years back i found out someone on facebook has almost the exact same name as i do, only with my name having a z instead of a c like she has. 90% of people EVEN ON FUCKING DOCUMENTS spelling my name with a c instead also kinda made it worse lmao. at that point i already haven't had facebook for 3 or so years? an old colleague of my mum's called her & mum mentioned having a daughter (me :3), told her my name & she right away went to look me up on facebook & was like "wow she's so pretty" & i got terrified that someone from high school was impersonating me or something lmao. turned out she was my age & had the same family name & like i said almost identical name & lived a few hours away from me. felt so fucking weird for a few days, because neither my name nor family name are common where i live or in germany in general. there's like.. 100 people with my family name tops. also found out some people from high school added her on facebook back then thinking it was me lmfao, they sure didn't think much.
i really feel that though. i tend to keep an avi for months - if not years - so whenever someone somehow chooses to use the same art on twitter or something, i usually change mine lmao. unless it's a perfect female dunmer, i will keep them until i'm sick of looking at them. similarly, i forgot who on here made my avatar when i made my hopelessly lesbian thread, but i'll cherish it forever. it's fucking adorable.
also love your current one, kinda just gives me nice warm dad vibes! ;w;
i really feel that though. i tend to keep an avi for months - if not years - so whenever someone somehow chooses to use the same art on twitter or something, i usually change mine lmao. unless it's a perfect female dunmer, i will keep them until i'm sick of looking at them. similarly, i forgot who on here made my avatar when i made my hopelessly lesbian thread, but i'll cherish it forever. it's fucking adorable.
also love your current one, kinda just gives me nice warm dad vibes! ;w;
Even though you've moved away from the Elite Beat Agents origin I still always imagine your business casual version with the head of Agent J
I guess if someone else were to also use my avatar, I would also feel weird. I had this avatar specially created once gay marriage became legal in the US in 2015 and I've kept it ever since. It means a lot to me since it's connected to such a momentous event like that.
(That's why I never do avatar bets, by the way.)
(That's why I never do avatar bets, by the way.)
Ditto lol
Thank you for the good vibes!
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I just want to put out a blanket post that this thread has been a lot of fun and I appreciate everyone sharing their own stories of overlapping identities and making jokes at the expense of the situation. I am enjoying the good vibes.
Also special thanks to the folks just being really nice to me when it's not even my birthday or court-ordered.
Also special thanks to the folks just being really nice to me when it's not even my birthday or court-ordered.
There's someone on here who has the same avatar as me, and I personally made it myself, too. I have no clue where that other person got it from.
People don't remember names they remember avatars. I saw a poster here using this one, which I shamelessly ripped from the internet, so it's not like I can complain. But I've been using it for ~5 years now and felt like an imposter was running around. I considered changing it, but I have an odd attachment to Ori and I didn't want to let it go.
So I'll wait them out and be the last avatar standing. You can do the same Finale, be strong.
So I'll wait them out and be the last avatar standing. You can do the same Finale, be strong.
OP, this.
Looks SO much better than this.
Why would you pay for that? That hand drawn style looked great.
By the way, sue them, you own the copyright on your art.
Looks SO much better than this.
Why would you pay for that? That hand drawn style looked great.
By the way, sue them, you own the copyright on your art.
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OP, this.
Looks SO much better than this.
Why would you pay for that? That hand drawn style looked great.
By the way, sue them, you own the copyright on your art.
I told the artist to draw however she wanted and gave her total freedom. She drew what she drew. I didn't love it either (as I said) but she delivered what I asked for. I paid for it because she did work for me and I would never deny anyone the cost of their labor. It was a simple exchange and not her fault. I learned to be more specific with what I was looking for in subsequent commissions.
Also I am not going to sue someone for using an avatar vaguely similar to my own. :P I will however carry around a pistol loaded with one bullet just in case we ever meet.
Yeah, that was meant more as "why did you asked someone to draw it", cause both of the first pics look great, the arm and the suit.
If you have no problem with them using that, fine I guess, but I would at least ask them to put it down, even if "vaguely similar", it's clearly based on your artwork which makes you having copyright protection on that.
Was rewatching the whole Game Theory FNAF playlist lately and one video was completely about this topic.
Someone was rocking the same Avatar as me when this place started that I had from the old place. I gave up and just went with a different one as it was strange and annoying.
Only I may be Melting Kermit, anyone else who wishes to inherit the mantle must challenge me to a trial by combat 🤼🏻♂️
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I see artists pop up on my twitter all the time and some of my friends are artists. When someone opens their commissions you can approach them with your idea. For one of my commissions I sought out someone who specifically seemed good at drawing clothes, but lots of artists draw people or creatures for a living. you just find one you like and pay the rate!
I really like art and have a lot of admiration for artists, so it's something I enjoy doing. Most people can probably make their own avatar without too much trouble (that's how I started) but I wanted an excuse to have something done. Plus I like to support my friends when their commissions are open.
Thank you! It's my favorite of all avatars I used here so far.
My avatar is already a copy, so I don't worry too much about it. You actually see the edges of the multiples at the sides of the frame.
Oh, and don't google suit + crossed arms. But if you do, you find that the twitter user image is a stock image.
Btw is the avatar a reflecion of you? Like skin color? Jewelery, like the (wedding?) ring? Are you wearing suspenders? Do you have a head? Do you have legs? Do you have three comically large arm hairs on each arm?
Oh, and don't google suit + crossed arms. But if you do, you find that the twitter user image is a stock image.
Btw is the avatar a reflecion of you? Like skin color? Jewelery, like the (wedding?) ring? Are you wearing suspenders? Do you have a head? Do you have legs? Do you have three comically large arm hairs on each arm?
Yes, I've also seen Annihilation.
Working in design professionally I can tell you headless suit iconography is pretty common. Sorry, OP.
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Of course. I said as such in the OP. This is why I must conceive of another headless figure nobody else has ever thought of. Perhaps some sort of horseman...? Hmm...
You shouldn't build your whole identity around a forum avatar.
Build it around a forum signature instead.
Build it around a forum signature instead.
I got my current one here, when Platy was practicing arts using capcom characters and made a thread for it.
Since I nominated Trucy and Platy drew her on my rec, nobody else has picked it up.
My previous avatar was borrowed from some deviantart artist and was another video game character I like, with art I liked. But since the site changed the proportions to be square, it stretched funny. Stupid decision.
Honestly, you should design a play on your current avatar. Headless as-is, but have the tie loose around the neck (maybe thrown over the shoulder; shit is about to get real), and one of the hands in the process of rolling up a sleeve (like now). Just a thought.
I'm not really a Chevelle fan, but that's some totally rad cover art. Looks like something you'd see from some prog band in the 70s. I can always appreciate retro aesthetics like that.Mine is my favorite album, every time I see it it just reminds me how good music can be when emotions are genuinely expressed
But I may be changing it to this
Upcoming album I am most excited for and I rarely care about new music. There just may be a time when you want to change your favorite avatar
please lift your curseYou know not what you do. You should have learned from Addi's mistakes. Now you will first be haunted, then hunted, but the Narrow-Headed Man.
(You also assume my debt but that's less pressing.)
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You best start believing in ghost stories, Tokyostomp. You're in one.
Impossible. My future self is actually my past self (wrong warped through portal in Gohma's boss room and was thrust into the past to 1999) and my actual past self is on ice.
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I hope it serves as a lesson to all that if you are ever insecure about who you are you can just become a genre trope instead. Yeehaw.