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When the little "active users" photos rotate, I begin to feel I'm a cliche, as it seems like solidly 50% of you look the same.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Who's putting their real picture as a profile picture on an anonymous, public forum? Facebook is over there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, about that... I have a secret to confess.
Im not actually a 2D dog

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, and I'm not a actually Alpha, the android protagonist from critically-acclaimed and cult classic iyashikei manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, either. Sorry, guys.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am. I am absolutely a real Gorgon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Likewise. I am irl a disembodied voice emanating from a haunted jug. So a kameosa, I guess. The avatar's been stylized, though

[–] RetroEvolute 22 points 2 years ago

It's the modern adult nerd look... Lemmy probably has a pretty specific demographic at this point in time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

" I'm seeing a lot of "Grey Square" profile pics, some alarmingly like my own. How many of us are there?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You weren't informed about the kbin cloning experiment? It was in the t&c

[–] Sunforged 14 points 2 years ago

I thought this would be obvious, bearded with poor vision checking in.

Your not asking the right question though, something that might now be obvious from profile pics. How many of the users are never-nude? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Okay…. So… if y’all want a goldfish wearing a top hat for a profile pic…

Welcome to a club of weirdos.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm a fan of frogs myself as you can see.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm personally a fan of pirate broadcast intrusions of someone wearing a Max Headroom mask and getting away with it. As you can see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Hey, it works!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

That’s a cute frog.

I’m my waiting for all the cat people to like in and disprove the bearded man as the most common…

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

solidly 50% of you look the same.

Let me inflate that statistic a little, as somebody without a profile pic who looks exactly like that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I've got a beard but I wear contacts and would never use an actual picture of myself on a public forum like this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would advise against putting a real photo of yourself

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe they're all photos of the same guy, and behind them is the wondrous variety of human identity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Goddamn copycats.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If beehaw's post on their user demographics from earlier today is a valid representation of the fediverse as a whole, then 50% sounds about right!

I, however, am obviously a small tree and have no need for glasses

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

You and me both, my friend in foliage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, my pfp is also absolutely me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just wanna take this time to say that every time I scroll past one of your comments, I think your icon is cute. I love those games and it makes me happy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It's cloning. Canadian cloning. Like Ryan George and all his clone who run the entertainment industry in Canada. Producer, director, writer, sound guy, intern, etc.

In fact... you're all probably clones of Ryan George. Check to see if you're a Canadian named Ryan. Tons of you guys out there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Do you reckon my pi counts?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea i noticed some ppl here who have a profile pic, they have a kinda similar style i guess (but nothing wrong w that!)

really i was thinking its nice to see more people with their own pfp, is kinda cool to see who youre talking to.

(Sorry to say im not in that group though - am not a guy, do not have a beard and tho i have glasses i dont usually wear them in pics lol)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You can be a bearded, bespectacled man, if you want to be! I wonder what the feminine equivalent of "beard with glasses" would be on kbin/lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I feel attacked, validated and welcome at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Behind the eternally young green bubble dragon hides a middle-aged bearded man with glasses 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Not everyone is blessed with my raw, vinegary sex appeal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a beardy glasses guy, why WOULD I put my face on a profile picture? I already fade into the background IRL at least here I can be interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

2meirl4meirl

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

And glasses, beard, long hair coming in a close second... Ahem

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Another beardy guy with glasses here. I also have long hair, does that make me unique?
When does the "beardy guys bad eyes club" meeting start?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It never ends

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Bearded glasses guys need to get together and fight over the title of Most Average Bearded Glasses Guy. I am bald so I think I'm disqualified, or at least put in a different division.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hello fellow beardy-nerdy-guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think I have a beard but I've lost my glasses. I'll have a look when I find them, but I already have my suspicions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Why would I choose a picture of me when I can be a Sexy Shoeless God of War?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

One more beard and glasses checking in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hope no one takes this personally, it isn't, but this is the first thing that popped in to my mind reading this post.

I'm sorry. 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bear and glasses checking in, how's everyone enjoying zelda or diablo?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe we don't play those games! Why would you assume!?

But seriously, I haven't tried the new Zelda beacuse I'm still playing Breath of the Wild. And I've been playing Diablo: Original Sin 2, so I haven't gotten to Diablo IV, yet.

I bet you feel pretty silly for generalizing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I... plead the 5th?

[–] Duchess 2 points 2 years ago

not to disparage anyone's looks or anything, but on the internet guys with short beards and glasses in that very specific 'i'm a techy person' kind of way are eeeeverywhere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Many. Welcome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've got some news about the demographics of the threadiverse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Reporting in.

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