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I like my privacy and I absolutely loath having my picture taken. As long as I'm not misleading anyone for profit, I'm perfectly okay with it. No offense to any total strangers out there but its no ones business what I look like etc. unless I choose to share it.
I don't know if this might be related, but has anyone ever bought picture frames from the store an left the pretty stock family photo pictures in them and hung them up that way?
Just me? <.<
well I guess it depends how fugly your real family is
I don’t have any pictures of me out in cyberspace because of my former occupation. Growing up on the west coast of Florida right on the beach as a kid we’d see all the retired snowbirds that would down from the Northeast and Canada in the winter months. My avatar is the representation of snowbirds of the past. ;)
My avatar is actually Sam Elliott. I figured it would work, since it's sort of like me, except he is no doubt better looking, I haven't ridden a horse in years, he is a bit taller, several years older, and has a much better voice. Hmmm ............ maybe it isn't at all like me after all. Oh well, like so many others have noted, I wont use a real photo, so Sam will have to work until I find something better.
Edit: I do have a better hat though
it was actually watching videos like these and people's reactions that got me thinking about this
With my avatar, I started out trying to make it look somewhat like me, but then it kinda morphed into it's own unique character. So I let it.
As far as catfishing, I think as long as no one is trying to imitate another person, or romantically snare someone dishonestly, then it's fine. I think the internet community knows that most of us aren't comfortable using our own identity online for safety reasons, so no one is really "fooled", since they never believed to begin with.
I don't know what you're talking about. I look exactly like my avatar.
yeah but you are a Faery cuckoo chick
Im just too dang lazy to make an avatar.
or...
This is my self portrait!
My avatar is just an OC I made to try clothes on, who ended up becoming kind of a signature because I liked him so much. I would actually find it incredibly creepy and inappropriate if someone felt misled by that, because I can't conceive of any good reasons for them to be personally invested in what I look like IRL.
With the videos, I think it's important to remember that they're deliberately designed to shock the viewer. White folks doing blackface is gross for reasons beyond just being misleading, so controversy is part of the draw. Women using makeup to transform themselves in the other video aren't really fooling anyone--they're using incredible skills to show off a cool effect. The shocked reactions tend to come from absorbing it as kind of a horror movie, running with the implication that any woman could use makeup to trick someone into thinking she's pretty...except people usually learn to do that stuff as a hobby, or because they're into cosplay, or because it rakes in absolutely wild engagement on social media.
Wendy I love your new hairdo it's makes you look super intelligent and wise !!!
I have created a sort-of-me kind of avatar to represent the author (human) in the 4th wall, and my other network avatar is Tibby from the 4th wall, or the Division character Seth riding on a tiger horse. :-)
The one I'm using here is the test screen from terrestrial TV, when there was still an "End of Program".
But no, if it is obviously a render, I see nothing wrong with using whatver figure you feel represents yourself. Or using cartoon figures, or abstract art, or a photo of your cat or dog or parakeet....
I'm not comfortable with someone using real life images of other people than yourself, due to the fact that that person really exists and you are not them - that would be plain cheating.
First I have to figure out what catfishing is...but my avatar is a digital painting I did waaayyy back a while ago that I use basically everywhere. I suppose people tend to paint themselves into things or at least possibly their idealized self.
I alwasy wonder when looking at skins/characters if the PA /creator makes them look like themselves because so often all the characters tend to look related. Sort of like looking in a mirror.
Oso...you're so cute..every time I see that avatar it makes me want to smile. Must have been a good day! Reminds me of Paul Giamatti in Billions and he turned out to be a bit of a badass last season...so there's that!
Mine is my logo derived from combo of me and a stuffed bear and a long story!
This is as accurate a 3D representation of me as I'll ever create. Good thing I like it - and it is a startling likeness! :)
I have a picture frame that had some old painting from the 1920's or so. The picture is of some chickens scratching around in the dirt near a dog house. I don't know if it was intentional or what, but the collar at the end of the dog chain is broken and a bone is laying nearby. The chickens look innocent enough, but the family consensus is that the chickens ATE the dog! I'll see if I can remember to post a picture of it up tomorrow to see what the group consensus here is - without hijacking the thread, hopefully. The picture is a unique treasure.
I don't know... My avatar is six years or so old now... My daughters tell me I should update it, but I'm lazy...
Its just a cartoon version of me and my daughters... I'm grayer now... My hair is perpetually messy and I hate to shave...
I think it's ok to use whatever you want... It's what you'd like to represent you... Be it a picture of you, a glamorous character or a hamburger.
Apparently I chose something somewhere between hamburger and me...
I love that kind of humor!
So my avatar is something I just did up a couple or three years ago. I'm a straight guy. This is important only because it serves as a main frame of reference for me and it forms my perspective of men and women and how we get along with each other, how we love each other, and how we (in spite of current culture and society) still sometimes manage to be together as lifelong partners.
So I like artwork with men and women, boys and girls getting along, a whole family having fun, or any of those having a moment of true love or affection. I can't really get excited making art with only men or only women alone. One day I will do those things because that opens up opportunities for my art. But for now, the current graphic with a man and lady dancing represents my outlook on life and art.
I liked doing that avatar so much that I actually promised myself that I'd change it every so often, sort of as a monthly or bi-monthly mini project. Never did that, and now I'm so busy with my work that I can't really find the time to even come visit regularly, let alone do an occasional avatar.
Dance on!
Mine is Harima from School Rumble. Years ago, I had a superficial resemblance to him, only not Japanese nor a cartoon. I've just kept it forever.
Now I'm older, no longer tan, with longer hair, and still not Japanese nor a cartoon but I keep using the avatar cause why not.
Wine is a take on my name and my families passion for chickens.
We raise and show poultry in poultry shows here in Canada.
It was a render for a contest some years ago and i like it.
Mine is also just a ranodome render. :)
The girl in the frame pic was amazing! But no, I didn't do that because she was already enjoying her wonderful life in Paris and everybody knows I've never been to Paris! Plus it would have just been sad.
I did have a magazine pic of a hot girl wearing glasses and a bikini hanging on my door once, but it was an advert for an eye doctor chain and their line of designer glasses. Honest, really! 
Mine is sort of a family joke, back from the days when my sons were into the "Digimon" stuff - a long time ago in a previous millenium. I thought an old, gray spinosaurus with a cheap party hat pretty well represented me. : )
Some might think my avatar would qualify as catfishing, as I am neither black, female, or blessed with that much hair. It's just the character I've been making art of for most of my 19 years in 3D.
I've been operating under the assumption that at least 20% of the forumites are actually cats pretending to be humans.... I'm not naming names but you know you are and I'm on to you.
/me looks at avatar
This is that picture, in a frame, that I mentioned I had bought. It is called Rooster and Brood by Edgar Hunt. I dunno - what do YOU think happened to the dog?
My avatar is Aiko 3, wearing a WIP helmet I finally finished making for a Genesis 2 outfit. I don’t think there is a “fat, tired, 50-year-old” morph for Aiko 3 so she’s as close to my real look (see attached) as she’s going to get!