Ever wondered what the story behind someone’s avatar is? Perhaps you’re trying in vein to remember what they had before their current one? Or maybe you just want to gush about yours for a bit?
In this thread we can discuss our forum avatar pictures. Something we stare at every day, but seldom talk about. I’m sure there’s much to be learned!
Hi. It’s not what I look like, it’s just a bit of pixel art I made that I’m proud of.
Petunia the cat from Ai to Yūjou no Neko Monogatari: Jingle Cats - Love Para Daisakusen no Maki. The PSX/PC game based on the Jingle Cats novelty albums.
Cool blog post about the game
Somehow I always assumed it was from Wario Ware.
wow good foresight from the Jingle Cats devs to put 穴 in their game all those years ago!
Max is spelled with a smiley face!
We also have the explain your handle thread in case someone also wants to find out the story behing some of the handles in this forum
Got mine commissioned by this one artist I really like, heyheymomo.
It’s of Rocky from Pocky & Rocky, of course because that’s one of my all-time favorites but also because around the start of my time in this forum @穴 made this avatar for me, and I figured if the avatar is going to change I may as well keep the same character lol.
I guess around that time I hadn’t posted much yet, so there wasn’t much else to know about me besides that I liked Pocky & Rocky and EarthBound. But it’s nice to have this association with a game I love so much – and hopefully it’s got the game on you guys’ minds more often too!!
I’m also proud of my explanation in that thread.
(apologies again to @rootfifthoctave)
Talk about a Rocky start!
i had forgotten about that silly rocky with a melodica avatar lmao
Mine is the shopkeeper Aimee from Fire Emblem: Monshō no Nazo
It’s hard to find a video that’s not stretched widescreen. As for why… I just like her design. I tend to like flirtatious and sneaky shopkeepers and fortune tellers in games.
I recently got mine from the Avatar Trust Fall thread.
He’s the manager guy from the “Hard” team in Ridge Racer: Type 4. I love it because I love the game, and it reminds me of a custom sticker that I use in chats with friends. The sticker is a photo of me, wearing a sport coat pointing at the camera with finger guns. I won’t post it because it’s a personal privacy thing, but if you change the hair in Ridge Racer guy to gray, you know what I look like. I’m certain that my forum friends who have met me in person will agree with the likeness in attitude if not perfectly in imagery.
Mine is 9S from Nier: Automata wearing a tee that says “Well behaved bottoms rarely make history,” It’s a flip of the quote “well behaved women seldom make history” that is so often mistakenly attributed to people that I actually don’t know where it comes from. The flipped quote comes from this meme though:
For a hot second my avatar was this meme of 9S instead:
I think these avatars (and also the way I talk and act) have maybe given other forum members the impression that I am a twink, but I killed my inner twink (via creatine) a while ago
as an admitted “thinks the avatar is the actual person” believer, this is devastating news
If I ever find out yeso doesn’t look exactly like Cesar Vallejo i’m gonna be so mad
yeso is a girl now
what posting on the ic forums does to a mf
as for me, no one wanted to make me an avatar trust fall thread despite my embarrassing pleas, so i took it upon myself to make one
my profile pic on most platforms, and originally here, was this:
then, saddleblasters gave me this during my first avatar trust-fall:
then, for my second trustfall, i ended up putting together this, from various people’s suggestions:
i quickly changed to my current profile pic after that, though:
