the Origin and Meaning of Your Profile Picture

[georgemoody]

inspired by the the Origin and Meaning of Your Username thread

Mine is simply a combo of two Not symbols and an underscore, making a moody face. I have an older one that is two hyphens and an underscore, I use it for profile banners for the most part now.

 

[Some_porcupine]

evangelion hedgehog dilemma (porcupine)
also, someone send me this porcupine pic
so i made it all into one pic

 

[mydadiscar]

I use Pixiv and other art websites quite a lot. I wanted a new profile picture, looked in my favourites and found this one.
It is Sawyer the Cleaner from Black Lagoon, presumably having a panic attack. I can relate to Sawyer to an extent and have my own mental issues (she was apparently modelled on the author's friend who had depression).
EDIT: I have since changed it.

 

[Collision]

I want to have sex with Melissa Joan Hart.

 

[mesaprotector]

Heavily filtered picture of the moon I took in 2014. Hell if I remember how I did it but the colors are trippy.

 

[ETierhuman]

Vinicius jr is my favorite player

 

[Dr. MacGutsy]

Real coooool guy I saw on the world wide web.

 

[Dolfin]

Before making an Agora Road account, I was watching a Best of the Worst RLM episode that featured a video about spotting counterfeit Beanie Babies. Apparently, one of the most-faked Beanie Babies (according to a VHS from the '90s) is a dolphin named Flash. When I saw it, I had the strong, specific urge to grab an image of it, "fry" it until it resembled a spotty banana or maybe a lizard, and have it in the lower-right corner looking at some abstract object in the opposite corner. The original concept had a flat cyan backdrop and some kind of pencil sketch in a thought bubble as the object. I couldn't scrounge up anything for the latter that would satisfy this impulse, so I settled for a cyan Win95 hourglass against a faux-dithered purple sky. Using GIMP, the image was crafted, and it sat on my desktop for at least a few months while I wondered what the hell I was supposed to do with it.
My first try at registering for Agora was rejected because I used a VPN lol.
I needed a second username and I still had my vaguely vaporwavey dolphin thing, so I decided this was its destiny.

 

[Digital Cheese]

It is a combination of the "The Destruction Kingdom" (TDK) icon + the Corrupted DC profile picture. TDK being my empire, corrupted DC being an edited version of my original PFP still used on my website and some other places as the default for now. As for the 2019 PFP which Corrupted DC was based off of, it is a pizza with a video game controller (i was 10 when i made it, but the PFP was still based as fuck somehow).

TDK logo was actually made in a way to allow myself to change the logo at will for other sub-groups while still looking good, hence the TDK + 2 bars almost never change unless im doing a full TDK logo redesign (which still keeps a bit in touch with the original) but the thing between that usually does so it might be my PFP inverted instead of corrupted DC.

As for why I called "corrupted DC" that, I am not sure either tbh. However, I did notice my lack of sanity after I created that soooooooooooo

 

[Mew]

Mew

 

[mydadiscar]

Mew

simple as

 

[brentw]

Call me Snake.


View: https://youtu.be/xpOHV1T6Kdg



View: https://youtu.be/YGhTGBx9lC0

 

[SaturnianWarlock]

I thought a skull profile pic would be nice. That's pretty much it. I just did a google search and boom, profile picture

 

[Antice]

Currently:

Before going on vacation, I treat myself to an interesting book. That's how I discovered Dmitry Glukhovsky (Metro2033) and Tom Clancy (Hunt for Red October). This year, I decided to indulge myself with something special. I remembered the author from a small TV show I used to watch on a kids channel.

Momo appears out of nothing, inside an old open air theater one day. After a while, the man in gray (

) learn that Momo is passively hindering their conspiratorial efforts. This leads down a spiral of mistakes, enabling Momo to meet an omnificent ally (

). Together they stop the man in gray operation with a final

Spoiler: showdown

in their secret underground safe.

Usually it's a mirrored orange open and closed four (4|

) adding a side pillar to resemble an AF (my IRL initials). Dropping the M, parts of the F, since people made fun of the acronym for radio frequencies am/mf (...would you like am/fm) and then a.f. (as/s fuck). Even then, it looked too similar to the Linkin Park logo, so I tipped it sideways.
My favorite color is orange, because most of my childhood played out between the time of sun-rise and -set.
-That's why cloudy purple is the second to best, sky blue is third place and then night black, 50 shades of green and some concrete gray. Sometimes I like people skin brown, but usually more if a female wears it-

The name I choose was a very early decision in my life. You know, babies can't talk properly and slur everything. That are the dominant sounds that will be left after putting my name real one through a toddler.
So ever since this was my pseudo name, it fit most of the character limitation of the games during my early childhood and "Anti" looked cool on the machines.

Spoiler: Obvious bait

Here is a little exiting trivia: My related folks (second degree and higher) only know me by this name. Since they migrated all over the world a couple of years after I was born, there is a good chance (~100 to 8bil = 12.5n) might know that name and can connect it to me. Most of them are humble but proud (pacifist) people, emigrating to regions in need of help, from south africa to south america lol.

I want you to "catch me if you can" and tear my "opsec" apart!

It's me irl. There's plenty of excellent reasons for the right to privacy, but most people abuse it to say things that are just evil or inconsistent with their beliefs and ethics. In other words, they abuse it so they aren't responsible for the things they say. But if you aren't responsible for the things you say, that seeps into your soul, and you begin to treat more and more of what you say without any responsibility(just like all the people who say they'll improve in new years resolutions and do nothing!). If you won't take the responsibility of standing behind your beliefs, who will?

As a result, the average facebook boomer is more sincere than the average redditor.

This said, people have the right to privacy, they can do as they wish with it- but it sure riles me up when people hiding behind privacy complain about people having the right. I have seen people complain about that on Agora road.

Agree, this is very noble of you. More important than your name is your spine. I think most of the discussion are just Internet related issues and most anonymous folk would drop their shit and act like boomers-online. Most of my anonymity stems from the bs I pull on people; My friends aren't as fond of the voice AI I generated from their WhatsApp voice messages as I am. (I seem to have a pattern of fear from being humiliated for no good reason)
One solution seems to be "the right of being forgotten". But every scenario in my head plays out the same: "Reaction Content"