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Hi, I AM IN YOUR WIFI. NOW RUN FOR YOUR LIFE. YOU BAKA
Fuck That now it’s full on war
I see no such weakness for you. Unless there’s a new pug anime I need to watch. In which case why have you been holding out?
And if your pfp is a profile cross-section of a human head with a baby curled, and sleeping, where the brain would otherwise be?
Anime profile pics are cringe, truly
Yah at this point I do associate anime identity association with immaturity, and I’ve enjoyed a great many animes.
I just cannot imagine connecting so much that I want others to see me and think it’s part of my own identity. It feels like the hallmark of someone with very limited media exposure.
Brother it’s a picture. I’m not giving the internet my real face. I’m not uploading a picture of my lifted truck nor my hellcat. Some of yall are just haters projecting. It ain’t that deep.
depends on the pic
No How can you do this to me!!! 😭😭😭😭 Please no J Slur
This but also unironically.
Ha, my fist is impervious to those attacks!
Maybe you just need to find the right community for your profile picture? Then you are unstoppable.
Similar to the Yahoo email I created when I was 14. Somehow C0d_G0dx69_420@yahoo (Made up but similar) isn’t quite the professional impression I want to make now a days.
Instead I now use C0d_G0dx69_420@proton.me
(much more professional)
Genuinely.
Hot take: it’s totally fair to judge someone based on their avatar as that’s literary what it is, a pictorial summary of what you’re all about.
Fully agree, you choose profile pictures based on how you want to present yourself to the world. It does communicate a message. A message that if not chosen with some level of care will signal different things to different people.
If you come to a party wearing a stained shirt and haven’t showered I will assume you don’t actually care. Likewise, if you are arguing politics or mature topics and your profile pic is some obscure, underage anime girl, I will also make assumptions about how much actual media exposure you have that you choose to present yourself to the world with that image.
This isn’t persecution or discrimination, this is just how people relate to each other, particularly in an information world where we can’t judge the rest of you.
it’s totally fair to judge someone
rarely
You’re judging them based off of what is ostensibly a first impression they have chosen for themselves. I can’t imagine a scenario where that’s not fair. And you don’t need to form an entire opinion, but the opinion starts there. If their picture was a sports team I didn’t like, some furry shit, or even MAGA, I’d form some opinions out of the gate.
I do the same. I don’t have the time or patience to listen to every person on the internet to understand where they’re truly coming from. What I meant is if I did I would probably find out that more often than not my initial assumptions were too harsh or otherwise inaccurate.
That hasn’t been my experience. My experience is that my first impressions are woefully incomplete, but rarely wrong.
You aren’t reading the wrong book, you’re just only getting the prelude chapter.
Counterpoint: sometimes it’s just a funny picture I like, and sometimes it’s some anime titties I like. Assuming it’s always going to be a meaningful representation of the user is unrealistic.
Counterpoint: sometimes it’s just a funny picture I like,
Fully fair, likewise it’s also fully fair for someone to make judgements on you based on that funny picture if you choose to engage in different kinds of conversations outside of the space where people joke about funny pictures.
I mean it tells me that you’re somebody who weighs levity over seriousness. Even if it doesn’t specifically tell me who you are, to imply that any choice is devoid of meaning is equally unrealistic.
In my mind, some edgy-looking anime dude is very different from anime booba.
While both remove validity of argumentation, the former probably means you’re a minor, and the ladder means you will never have a social life outside the internet.
I love that you’re getting downvoted for this accurate assessment of how adults engage with each other.
Honestly, I realized a while back that Lemmy is largely kids. Like, to me at least if you’re under 25 you’re a kid, and I think most users here are even younger. Maybe across the social internet broadly we have massively misjudged how many adults actually shape our global conversations.
Doesn’t the ladder increase the odds of a social life outside the internet? Am I the only who watched Clarissa Explains It All? It’s called a social ladder for a reason!?
You don’t want a ladder unless you are cleaning the gutters
While both remove validity of argumentation,
Why?
A lot of people don’t treat it as such though, and thus it becomes odd to assume so. But some things are just downright questionable, obviously.
Plot twist - the one calling out your anime pfp has a furry pfp
If you witness that kind of exchange taking place, you can probably toss the entire convo out.
Although, I would lean more towards the furry pic than the anime pic, at least furries are largely autistic adults who consume a ton of information and may have more educated opinions on some topics. At least from my experience working adjacent to the tech sector.
Whereas a suspiciously large percentage of people who choose anime profile pics are just saying “this is a cartoon girl I want to bang” while also being a raging nazi online.
If the topic is tech related, the furry instantly gains +1 credibility
“Yeah well you’re not a real animal!”
“Uh… Yes I am. Humans are animals, doofus.”
Not a real fluffy animal!!!
True… I am funny guy, but maybe not that funny.
Furry pfp means chaotic neutral. They can do whatever.
Also, they drew the pfp themselves on some drawing tablet.
I used to shake my fist at how many people had really shitty hand-drawn furry profile pics and often made the judgement that they drew furry shit just because it’s harder to draw people’s faces.
Now I instantly praise anyone who has any kind of low-quality but obviously non-AI made imagery on display to the world. I don’t care if it’s ball-point pen on lined notebook paper. You rock on with that artistic bravery king or queen.
CAN do whatever, and if it’s IT related, they can do it better than you.
True that, That’s a given in this case
On Lemmy I feel like we do the same except for instances. Some person signs up with an instance oblivious to its politics but will get judged based on it.
Yah but we quickly all learn to just avoid tankie communities.
I signed up to lemmy waaay before the reddit API thing and back then there were only like three instances available.
My instance gets blocked a lot and now I know its because I am apparently a tankie.
Yeah but you’re on .world, so lets take what you have to say with a bucket of salt.
Of course someone on .world would say that. /j
But also blocking .ml instances by default is a great way to reduce your exposure to stupid ass takes and arguments. /not a joke
World is worse than ml imo. So much worse.
Except people accidentally join dumb instances. Nobody accidentally sets their pfp as a preteen anime girl. That shit is a choice.
Did actually do that once.
Ummmmm actually my discord pfp is definitely of a girl in her early twenties. Well, ok MAYBE she’s a teenager but she’s definitely of age!
“She’s a 1,000 year old demon in the FORM of a preteen schoolgirl. It’s totally different.”
I feel seen
The trick is to not have an anime pfp and just make terrible arguments in general
I’d argue that’s nothing more than an ad hominem strawman.
Finally, something I’m qualified to do
It could be worse. They could have a greek marble bust with laser eyes instead of the anime pfp.
Me, a Classics enjoyer, immediately suspecting someone of fascism when they have a Graeco-Roman bust pfp:
SiIvaGunner noooo don’t start world rip 3
Is it really a valid point if you have an anime PFP?
Your not going to stop me from saying unhinged shit in political subs.
And you can’t stop me from feeling your argument is invalid
Yes i can!
Feel this sweater instead. It’s real velour!
A true hero
…congrats?
