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Oct. 25th, 2007 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flyboy_foxThere's a meme going around that a lot of my friends list are doing. You know, the "Comment, and I will comment back with a picture of the fictional character that most reminds me of you" meme. So, I did a little experiment. I commented in 5 friends' journals who were doing the meme, using my neutral 'Yoshis' icon, just to see what would happen.
Every single one of them posted back a pic of Tails. Bre even IMed me and said "you won't be surprised".
It got me thinking. It's obviously because 84.5% (60/71) of my icons feature Tails. And 49.3% (35/71) are exclusively of him. And my mood-theme is of Tails. And my LJ is orange. (Dear lord, WHY is my LJ orange? ^^; My favorite color is blue!) Anyway, I was thinking... do icons really have that much influence? Of all the people who know me (or at least, of the diverse selection who I commented on), they ALL associate me with Tails. I'm not complaining! But it's just interesting to me that a simple avatar (or avatars) can have such a profound affect on a person's perception of someone, no matter how long they've known that person and how well they know them.
It made me wonder if I revamped my whole LJ, got rid of all (or at least most) of my Tails icons, perhaps even renamed my journal entirely... and then 6 months down the line, if/when the meme next crops up, I commented in a handful of friends' journals... would I get different results? Maybe more varied, at least?
I think about stuff too much.
Also, I've just now realized that Pogo.com's current prize-giving slider puzzle is rigged to be impossible. If the whole puzzle can be completed, minus two adjacently transposed pieces, then there's no possible solution. GYP! >O
Done now.
I follow you now
We fly up to the sky, to the sun, to the moon, to the stars...
Every single one of them posted back a pic of Tails. Bre even IMed me and said "you won't be surprised".
It got me thinking. It's obviously because 84.5% (60/71) of my icons feature Tails. And 49.3% (35/71) are exclusively of him. And my mood-theme is of Tails. And my LJ is orange. (Dear lord, WHY is my LJ orange? ^^; My favorite color is blue!) Anyway, I was thinking... do icons really have that much influence? Of all the people who know me (or at least, of the diverse selection who I commented on), they ALL associate me with Tails. I'm not complaining! But it's just interesting to me that a simple avatar (or avatars) can have such a profound affect on a person's perception of someone, no matter how long they've known that person and how well they know them.
It made me wonder if I revamped my whole LJ, got rid of all (or at least most) of my Tails icons, perhaps even renamed my journal entirely... and then 6 months down the line, if/when the meme next crops up, I commented in a handful of friends' journals... would I get different results? Maybe more varied, at least?
I think about stuff too much.
Also, I've just now realized that Pogo.com's current prize-giving slider puzzle is rigged to be impossible. If the whole puzzle can be completed, minus two adjacently transposed pieces, then there's no possible solution. GYP! >O
Done now.
I follow you now
We fly up to the sky, to the sun, to the moon, to the stars...
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Date: 2007-10-25 02:27 am (UTC)Also, people associate us with what we like, and you like Tails, so those who DO know what you look like likely associate you with him anyway for that reason. :)
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Date: 2007-10-25 09:13 am (UTC)There's one in my last entry :P
Well, I like Sonic more than I like Tails, but yeah, all my Tails icons would make people associate me with Tails I guess ^^;
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Date: 2007-10-25 10:46 pm (UTC)