GeniesLoki

I don’t understand the trend of male-identifying people using obviously not-them female avatars of either IRL women or “this person does not exist” style faces. Is this commentary about the internet? An anxious hedge against mobs? They just like simps? What’s the logic?

I would imagine more engagement and less hostility / competitiveness. It also provides a personal feeling to the account without exposing your real face. It's surprisingly easy to spot those accounts just by "that sounds like something a guy would say"

It is a weird trend! Would love to see results from a couple groups of people swapping the gender of their profile pic and nothing else, and just reporting if anything was different

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When I polled about how people saw the change they mostly pointed out that the different emotional energy of the picture was more significant. Not sure how the gender of it affects how people treat me. I think most people assume I'm a guy anyway.