How do you guys imagine people's avatars?

[FPTMIU]

Avatars, at least to me, often become the face I imagine saying the words of the post to the point that even the voice in my head that reads the message will change depending on the profile picture. The thing is that I feel kind of alone on that front, most friends of mine seem to not really do this and find it weird that I even have this. But it must be more common than never, right? I mean I thought that is the main reason trannies tend to have hyperfeminine pictures of girls as their profile pictures. Was I wrong about that? Kind of curious what you guys have to say about it.

 

[Lach]

I'm usually more concerned how people write and my mind imagines the voice for the way they write things, for avatars i usually have a mental category for the type, Anime PfPs being South American dudes, cat profiles being weird girls and suspicious males, early 2000s meme pfp being chubby millennial white guys especially if he as an apu apustaja pfp than hes a schlubby white guy with asian wife etc.

 

[Shig O'nella]

Your friends are right, that is a fucking wierd thing to do.

 

[unaboomer]

How does it make you feel when someone changes their profile picture to something completely different?

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

I'm curious about the voice in which those here read my posts, in this context. I like to imagine this symbol made from floating stone, with a voice nowhere in particular. Of course, that mental image has no coherent voice associated with it.

 

[Curry Teafag]

I talk like this IRL fr fr:

 

[Daring DooDoo]

All forum avatars occupy a spectrum whose furthest points are that one cat periodically licking the screen and Sasuke Uchiha.

 

[synthetic_glazer]

I do that too, though it's more a visual thing. I don't really "hear" the text spoken by the pfp in my head- it's more like I'm reading it in my own internal voice while the pfp lip syncs, and that takes precedence over everything else. Like I imagine Null's posts as being spoken by slobber dog in my own internal voice even though I know what he looks and sounds like.

I expect and/or demand all of you to read my posts as concept art Cawlin from Skyward Sword

 

[Commander Suzdal]

Avatars, at least to me, often become the face I imagine saying the words of the post to the point that even the voice in my head that reads the message will change depending on the profile picture.

I don't get the effect that strongly, but the avatar becomes part of my mental picture of the person even though I know its just a picture they liked. I'll be momentarily surprised to find out someone with a male PFP is female, not because I don't think women can use male profiles but because I didn't even notice I'd mentally tagged this pseudanonymous poster as "male".

cat profiles being weird girls and suspicious males

This is unfair to @Cats, may he rest in peace

 

[Shartavius]

Here are some aural aids:

 

[Newton Pud]

What does my PFP sound like?

 

[Super Malario]

I don't get the effect that strongly, but the avatar becomes part of my mental picture of the person even though I know its just a picture they liked. I'll be momentarily surprised to find out someone with a male PFP is female, not because I don't think women can use male profiles but because I didn't even notice I'd mentally tagged this pseudanonymous poster as "male".

This is how I see avatars too, which is very funny considering most people don't look like their avatar, bar a few exceptions.

 

[Jason_Cruiser]

Behind every avatar I always imagine a fat dysgenic autist and the accompanying voice you would expect with it.

 

[Curry Teafag]

What does my PFP sound like?

 

[Gog & Magog]

Avatars, at least to me, often become the face I imagine saying the words of the post to the point that even the voice in my head that reads the message will change depending on the profile picture.

What voice do you imagine when the avi is of a building or a place, like mine?

Like I imagine Null's posts as being spoken by slobber dog in my own internal voice even though I know what he looks and sounds like.

Once I know how somebody looks or sounds IRL, my mind simply doesn't imagine them as anything else.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I imagine where everyone is placed in Hell. For I am the Chad and you're all burning in Hell.

 

[San Marino]

I always view someone's avatar as just one of their interests.

 

[Lords Greatsword]

An image uploaded onto the internet

 

[FPTMIU]

How does it make you feel when someone changes their profile picture to something completely different?

I don't really care that much but it can change the voice I imagine them having in my head

I'm curious about the voice in which those here read my posts, in this context. I like to imagine this symbol made from floating stone, with a voice nowhere in particular. Of course, that mental image has no coherent voice associated with it.

When I cannot attach a face to it, I just read it in my own voice.

Here are some aural aids:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=uDKh8M2Znqs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PJtLv-ucvPA
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ahyxR_v5otA

Cmon I know who Rob Fripp is

What does my PFP sound like?

The voice a generic anime girl has in my head when I read the subtitle of her dialogue

What voice do you imagine when the avi is of a building or a place, like mine?

Once I know how somebody looks or sounds IRL, my mind simply doesn't imagine them as anything else.

I tend to have an image of a building with a voice coming out of it, usually my own internal monologue's voice takes over

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

Avatars, at least to me, often become the face I imagine saying the words of the post to the point that even the voice in my head that reads the message will change depending on the profile picture.

Yeah, I have the same thing. Which is why I read your message as an annoyed aristocrat.