I use a real photo on some other services like LinkedIn where I’m low frequency or one-note, but on twitter, any photo or cartoon face can only match the mood of like 10% of my tweets, and feels weird for 90%
At some point I defaulted to non-face pics… the helicopter is now 2y old. Previously I was various space-themed ones. I don’t think I’ve used a face in 4-5 years. I was using various emoji and Bender before
I think the only face one I liked was this one I made of a theater style laugh/cry thing, a more stylized version of an older strained-mask-on-real-face cartoon
I used 🤣 and 😆 for a while, but decided I’m not actually perennially psychotically amused. I considered but never used 🤔. For a while was using various slightly creepy self made emoji… the slightly-stoned-smiling was quite popular.
There’s a weird latent autobiography here
The helicopter has been the longest stable one. The joke is now lost on people (a ref to the early pandemic “going brrr” meme)
My pre-pandemic pfp was this one, in 2 versions… the “brand!” stamp idea was inspired by the “ingroup” stamp. I was obsessed with this critter in 2019
I agree. Been meaning to replace my face with something interesting, like a bot that morphs the image a little every hour. Would be fun to see if one could design a morph and pace that maintains continuity from a casual observer’s POV while gradually changing substantially.