PFP's are an underrated art form. They're often the only piece of artistic expression someone will ever show to the world, and yet they are so common that they're almost always internalised and overlooked.

@acatstudios8853

Жыл бұрын

yeah

@theonlyMoancore

Жыл бұрын

I agree, pfp's are art

@Scrimblo.net_

Жыл бұрын

Art yes

@Aleuriom

Жыл бұрын

Yeah pfp's are real great

@lydierayn

Жыл бұрын

Same with usernames

It’s like fashion but for the internet. I love thinking about pfps, avatars, and cosmetic customization online. It’s really important to me. In the same way that I hate to wear certain clothes, I’d hate to have a pfp that doesn’t represent me right.

"Do you ever find yourself judging people based off their profile pics?" literally everyone, probably.

@nocturnaliism

Жыл бұрын

How would you judge me based off of mine?

@yourbifriendaspen3629

Жыл бұрын

@@nocturnaliism probably listen to mostly indie music (no hate) Also (insert super vague and common trait)

@nocturnaliism

Жыл бұрын

@@yourbifriendaspen3629 I mean you are right, indie music is pretty good. As for that vague trait, I guess I’m a pretty introspective person, although I don’t really know if that in and out of itself is a common trait

@chukola

Жыл бұрын

I wonder what people think of mine

@realbrightnights

Жыл бұрын

@@chukola someone who likes to doodle and is probably a nice person

I grew up with an older age of the internet where you were never supposed to share your age or what state you lived in, let alone your face. I've laxed a bit on some of that, though less than most of the internet, but I'm still really not comfortable showing what I look like publicly. For me, showing an online friend a photo of my face is one of the deepest signs of trust I can give, and I generally take others showing theirs the same way. So instead I generally use images of or from things that I like as my profile pic. Sometimes some sort of pun related to my screen name/tag/what have you (which isn't the same as what I use on KZread in most places).

@d3vitron779

Жыл бұрын

Personally, if I see someone use a pic of their face as their pfp, I assume they don’t stray from safe mainstream sites at all lmao

@8saiharamasukoi

Жыл бұрын

hm. i never thought about that. i suppose that back in the day, saying where you lived, showing your face, that was all a lot more rare

@whannabi

Жыл бұрын

@@d3vitron779 you'd be surprised

@Ruskah0307

Жыл бұрын

damn i doxxed myself for attention within the decade we the opposite of same lmao tbf i was both a (bigger) moron and a little unhinged back then, luckily i found a good community that made me not (as) insane and dw, i did go back and delete it lol, i dont think anyone even really paid attention anyway

It was lovely joining you for this! Always a pleasure to welcome you into my virtual home for a while

@dachel683

Жыл бұрын

Ah you. Saw a couple of your videos, pretty good stuff. 👍

@slyceth

Жыл бұрын

Can I come?

@PainFlavouredTrash

Жыл бұрын

A wild clown yeen has appeared on your comment c:< Eheheh

@Azeal

Жыл бұрын

@@PainFlavouredTrash oh shii

@Fearsomehero

Жыл бұрын

@@PainFlavouredTrash 0 o 0

as someone who changes their online persona or character a lot, this video resonated with me, I struggle to find that balance of anonymity and personality. Sometimes it feels better to be a character rather than really reveal myself but I don't always know how that's perceived. It probably doesn't help that I change who I am online pretty frequently while struggling to find an identity that I feel really represents me.

@grimjudgment6527

Жыл бұрын

For me, I've always used specific themes. Just about every pfp I use is some type of memento mori. A symbol to remember death. I know it's a bit on the edgy side, but I've been one of those many people that have floated in and out of homelessness, toughed out of sickness that I should've been hospitalized for, survived abuse and the whole shebang. It's less that I'm obsessed with death, but more or less it's kinda like a tarot card. Death is just symbolically the end of something. Everything that's a problem in your life is temporary, but so are the good things. So is your life itself. There's a predefined law of reality that we cannot ignore. There's a kind of grim humor in it, the universe has already sentenced you to death as a final judgment from the moment you existed. But I also totally understand where you're at. I used to change my pfp all the time and kinda embody it. Problem is that can accidentally invite yourself to be a dickweed because that's what that kinda identity would do. The older you get, the more likely you are to be able to stitch together a more nebulous idea of who you are and then all of it will slowly become more and more tangible. For me, I wake up every morning and reinvent a part of myself just to see if I like it better. You do the same thing, except online. It's a fun journey, isn't it?

I love how deep you are about profile pics as I just chose mine because my kitten is the cutest and I want to share the cuteness with other strangers😂 After finishing the video, it reminded me a lot of Tumblr during its peak. Like I didn't really know most of the people who I interacted with, to a point where I just pictured them as their profile picture, but I could also share so much more than I could ever share with the people in my life. There's a few spaces like that still but it feels like they're dwindling over time. I also find it funny when someone changes their picture and they feel like a total stranger for a while but it does also make sense as that's the only visual representation of someone we have.

@toecurlersupreme

Жыл бұрын

damn thats a cute cat

@ponivi

Жыл бұрын

When your friend changes their pfp it‘s like when you don’t see someone for a few weeks and you talk to them and their hair is dyed or they have a bunch of new piercings

@egesanl1

Жыл бұрын

Kind of on the same boat

@thepaleprinceofruins9203

Жыл бұрын

Is your name a reference to the Planescape: Torment character Ravel impersonated or is it your name, Beth?

@LunaBeth97

Жыл бұрын

@@thepaleprinceofruins9203 ... It my name. Very basic😂😂

These are all also why I love TF2's modular cosmetic system, I can look exactly how I want to look in game and write my own version of the scout or the sniper merely from how they're dressed. A heavy in pajamas, a sniper in a beanie and flannel pants or a scout dressed as a mobster

I went ahead and changed my pfp because of this video. Made me realize how important pfps actually are, as they're a sort of reflection of what you are. Your likes, dislikes, the feel or vibe you want to give to others, who you want to strive to be, or even the current you. Profile pictures, as obvious as it sounds, essentially define yourself on the internet. There isn't much to identify or characterize a stranger on the internet, you can only judge from their pfp and what they do or say. Over the years I found interest in certain types of pfp, some I grew out of by now. As of right now, I really like the casual feel that my current one has. The person in it is one of my favorite characters in the Touhou Project, which is a game franchise I really enjoy. So, what you can infer from my pfp, is that i'm a casual person who likes this specific character from Touhou Project, which is who I like to think I am!

Good voice leadhead! it's changed a lot since the first video of yours I saw but it's still really natural and smooth. Content of the video also really good but I'm working on mine too and I'm really inspired by you!

@MirMarksman

Жыл бұрын

yeah she's become low-key voice goals pretty quickly!

@nefariousyawn

Жыл бұрын

Yeah she sounds good, much less forced.

@majorghoul9017

Жыл бұрын

she did a great job with her hair in this too, she's just goals all around

I'm quite proud of my PFP. Especially with how the arm curls around the circle frame, and how Babish's head is framed to draw you eye along the arm, to the sauce bottle squirting into his mouth, with the drip down the chin almost in the center of the pic. The kitchen in the background and table in the foreground give a sense of space. Truly a masterpiece of delicious white stuff being shot into Babish's gaping, hungry mouth.

One of the best experiences I've had online was because of my pfp. I graduated from my highschool a few years ago but am still in most of the discord servers from then to keep up with friends. My school was not the most trans friendly place but ever since I came out I've had a trans flag in my pfp. One day last year someone I'd never seen before from one of these servers dms me out of the blue and tells me " i just wanna say, it feels incredibly nice to see your trans pfp and status bc im a closeted trans guy haha" and we had a short convo about how to navigate being trans at my high school. Just seeing that me being visibly trans made someone feel welcome is part of why I haven't changed my pfp in years. I used to change it every month or so but I've now had the same one for like 4 years.

Ok, so I picked mine because I like Junji Ito, but now that I really think about it in an English Major headspace, I can take some more meaning out of it. Junji Ito is a body horror Mangaka, and the picture I chose is from Uzumaki, his most popular work. It depicts the main character, Kirie Goshima, from the chapter Medusa. All throughout Uzumaki, Kirie is subject to all of the horrors invoked by the spiral that haunts Kurozu Cho, but she isn't directly effected by it until Medusa, where her hair starts curling into hypnotic spirals which have minds of their own. It's a beautiful frame in a horrifying manga. I'm trans, and my dysphoria effected me all my life, especially during puberty. I was racked with depression and dysphoria up until I realized I was trans, and I transitioned. Looking back on my life, it was bad up until I transitioned and really started living. While my dysphoria still effects me occasionally, it isn't nearly as bad as it was before. My life is now the beautiful frame in an awful timeline of events, and I have the metaphorical and literal scars to show for it, but I'm learning to move past it. The "spirals" I carry are remnants from before I transitioned, and I will probably carry them all through life, but I can live with them now. They used to effect every facet of my being, I couldn't do anything without being reminded of them, but now they play a small part in my life, like the spirals in the picture. Without knowledge of the story, you wouldn't know what they really are, and without knowing the things I went though, or even the fact i transitioned in the first place, you wouldn't know what my trauma is like, or if I carry any at all. Enough waxing poetic, this was all accidental, I just like finding meaning an symbolism where there is none. My english teacher would be proud.

@pastellexists

Жыл бұрын

And right after the chapter cover that illustration is on, the next panel is a guy who fell off a balcony's body. Uzumaki is really just unrelenting.

Profile pics and avatars are those things we often don’t pay much attention to but end up meaning a bit more than we’d think. Interesting video

@kadavarium

Жыл бұрын

I fucking love your profile picture and my first assumption about you based on it is that you are a cool person :D

@s7robin105

Жыл бұрын

@@kadavarium Thanks I like yours too. Its a symbol from a game called Disco Elysium

@kadavarium

Жыл бұрын

@@s7robin105 I know, that's why I love it. Long live Kraz Mazov!

@s7robin105

Жыл бұрын

@@kadavarium Nothing made me sadder than the failed revolution of a fictional world and a cop philosopher drinking himself to death lol

@yahkimicki236

Жыл бұрын

Real communard hours

Fun story about my profile pictures, Originally it started out as just a picture of Carolina from RVB a friend a while back gave me, as the years went by it sort of… became me, madden, like you look at it and it’s like “oh that’s madden” So eventually I started editing it, I edited it into a bunch of my other PFPs as a sort of “I have all my friends with me” type thing, alone but not with my friends on discord. Then… something happened, can’t say what but something did happen in my life and I started editing my pfps based on that, I added cracked in the armor, a darker paint, fire inside the helmet, and even today it hurts to look at those profile pictures, those edits, those expressions of my experience. I’m at a weird stage… a lot of the time I go back to the original just no background (because I like how it looks and maybe you can spin it as “nothing else but me here” ) other times I switch between some other edits I made back then, other edits I made when I was happy or determined. In case you’re wondering this profile picture is just about the original with some crack, a darker visor and hands gripping the armor on the shoulders from the back, and a visor of a different Carolina in the back, it means a lot to me as a sort of… “I can’t exactly run away no matter how far I get it’s still there.” “Set me free from the enemy hiding in the dark”

@LatinaCreamQueen

Жыл бұрын

Beautiful read, friend. Hope life has been kinder since then. Regardless of everything, you're still you.

@Madden2000

Жыл бұрын

@@LatinaCreamQueen you too Chris P, may your life be kinder as well

Never thought a video about profile pictures would turn into the effects of the internet on society and the positives and negatives it's brought. but in regards to the original theme at the start, I've noticed a pattern of myself, in games, on the internet, hell, even in real life. I've always gravitated towards some sort of mask or icon. Video game has character customization? Hat, glasses, some sort of face covering, whatever. New profile pic? Been mainly using this one over the past few years. Need clothing for some work thing, or just an outing? Face covering if it's cold out, or there's dust, or some sort of general covering like neck covers if it's hot. I feel like it's some sort of reflection of me. I'm always subconsciously distancing myself from people. There's been many works/points made about how a face allows someone to connect with you and empathize with you; a mask in a way dehumanizes you. I'm quiet, I don't talk much, if at all, in both Discord or real life, and if I do, it's more or less just some quick comment, I don't try to talk over people, be it in the internet or in person, I rarely make eye contact, I just always seem so distant (at least I seem that way to myself). Whenever I have my playermodel or profile being some form of a mask, it just makes me feel like I'm always hiding some sort of part of my personality from people, when I've been more open and honest in recent years than I had before. I've been trying in the past year or so, coming off of puberty and grade school, to try and resist this. Talk with people more often, go to new events, join Discords, actually speak in general, etc. But I just can't get myself to part with this thing I do. I've just grown so accustomed to having some sort of mask that I don't really do anything else. I don't really have any "characters" I regularly use, hell, it's gonna take me a while just to actually make one at all. I don't really use game characters as icons, as I flip flop between what game or series I'm obsessing over every few months, so who knows if I'm still gonna be playing Deus Ex come 2027? Wouldn't want people to associate me with Adam Jensen only to get tired of it after a year or so. And I'm just not ready to use my own face on the internet. I guess I just feel conscious of how I might come off as to people, both in tone and in appearance. I know I have a short temper and can be quite neurotic at times, and I'm trying to work on that. But I just feel conflicted over something as simple as profile pictures and avatars. Do I want to stick with what I've got? Do I want to switch to something anime, and have all sorts of things assumed about me? Do I want to switch to something furry, and deal with the potential consequences that brings? Do I want to switch to something I like, like planes or guns, and be seen as a poser or a weirdo? I don't know. Hell, I could just be getting all worked up and anxious over something that will only have minor impact on my online life. But it's videos like this that really get my mind turning, and I give kudos for doing that.

My pfp is a gateway for me to a better time -- a constant reminder of the simplicity of childhood and how little it took to make me laugh back then. I love it.

@tvsonicserbia5140

Жыл бұрын

Legendary meme! Reminded me too!

This is a very insightful video, as a trans person, I rarely post my face online, because I hate myself, but this PFP makes me feel myself.

wish more people would take deep dives into identity in the digital age. incredible.

My efforts at nicknames and profile pictures more often than not are preoccupied with _saying_ something rather than saying _something._ Some meant as little personal jokes and easter eggs, others - to confuse and misguide and yet some reflect my imaginary self on a deeper level. And some are just pretty pictures, that don't annoy me.

Your video outros always feel so cozy to me, and this one was no exception. I've never been on VR chat but I've seen a couple of cideo essays about it before, and I know if/when I get a VR headset of my own I'll definitely be heading on there to check it out. Thanks again for uploading your videos; I still haven't seen your recent essay on cigarettes, so I'll get to that.

My pfp tells everyone Im a mischevious bastard

your videos are so beautiful, pls keep up cause they make me sane💜💜💕

I’ve had this profile pic since day 1 and I’ve never had so many compliments in all my life from being mistaken as being a girl. Ain’t complaining tho.

@ZigealFaust

Жыл бұрын

Dreamcast babe pfp club

@ChicaneryBear

Жыл бұрын

If it makes you happy, are you sure they're mistaken?

@yourbifriendaspen3629

Жыл бұрын

​@@ChicaneryBear uh oh... the questioning begins...

@Zazooma7

Жыл бұрын

Hey bby how u doin

@gabbo7101

Жыл бұрын

Tell me, do you like being "mistaken" for a girl?

This is one of the best videos I have ever seen, your video are great and I love video essays like these. Keep up the great work :)

Not the collab I expected but very happy about it

another day another absurdly beautiful video from leadhead

I could legit listen to your voice for hours, it's so calming.

Pfp's are a big deal, and its weird how much they matter, it helps make the first impression. it shows how in tune some people are with thier online persona. How distanced you can be from yourself. Nice video!

Your videos are really comforting. Thank you

They can be a good litmus test, particularly when it comes to anime or video games themed pfps. From my experience, you can safely gauge their taste, maturity level and what online spheres they frequent based on them, epsecially after a few interactions in the general chat or whatever. However, with that being said, I don't think there's anything deeper to them other than it being fun to try to read someone or use them as you would accessories. Overall, this was a fun video that explored something many of us take for granted and it managed to provide interesting insight into it.

I like how the backround is the dress that lead is wearing

When you said that Azeal is an inspiration to you in a lot of ways, I want to tell you that you are my inspiration in a lot of ways too!!! You've always been transparent and it's very motivating to me and I know it takes courage to be really personal on the internet, but you do it in a way that makes people want to get closer to you. And it worked for me!!! I hope you'll still do ads even when you reach your goals because that's the point of doing youtube. I hope you'll get a lot of surplus from making these videos. Love you so much!!!

my usual pfp is the same as the one i have on this account, but the colors are way more stark and contrasting. this is a pretty easy example of "laid back" vs "striking and thought provoking" i chose the most EXTREME colors, red and blue, and whenevet you look at it they almost rub off on eachother not to mention that its very eye catching.

Loved this video your videos are always so fascinating

I treat online profiles like you would a costume and try to have fun with it. I think they can be a good indicator of someone's personal taste in aesthetics, but I never think that much about them since they rarely matter, although what you observed in regards to how they can affect how we read someone's msgs and perceive them is something I've experienced here and there. Fun video!

I feel like my pfp is me. I’ve had this pfp for years, never gonna change

You have no idea how much I value your content. I can’t stop watching you transition video. Thank you for reaching out. I hope you see this…

There used to be a KZreadr that fixated his entire reaction content to a strangely looking photoshop of some sort of kids cartoon character. He even used TTS for narration, but funny enough people started to see him, the KZreadr, as this exact profile picture. Unintentionally associating his public identity with this character.

@JamangarYT

Жыл бұрын

Who?

my personality on the internet has been very important to me for as long as i can remember. My instagram profile must constantly look as appealing and as true to me as possible at all times. I care so much about how i represent myself. Insightful video. Thank you.

Love your channel, keep it going :)

This genuinely went in a direction I wasn't expecting. It really gets into the meat of why we use these things. For me I've always used profile pics of anime girls, I don't really even know why at the start. At one point it was Yin from darker than black using her hands to make herself smile, because she is a being incapable of experiencing emotions yet understands that by putting on a show for others it can make them happy. I always related to that aspect. I didn't realize I had autism until the last few years, because of that I always felt like I was putting on a show, giving others the answers and reactions they expected. Because of this in highschool I went through a crisis of identity, I have notebooks filled with writings on how I was wearing masks in every situation, that the real me didn't exist. I've always kept something along those lines, anime girls that seem to be incapable of emotion. It's why I've always connected with characters that are kind out there. It wasn't until reading kengan ashura that I found a character I can definitively say is closest to how I am in real life. Ohma is by far the closest character I've seen, he doesn't understand societal norms, is completely content to go out and kill a huge animal full cave man style for food, will call characters by their first and last name because that's how they introduced themselves so that's what their name is. The list goes on. Dude is legit a man out of his time, as if a hunter gatherer was brought to our time. And that's always how I have felt, I don't understand the need to express ones self through the cloths they wear, I don't see the need to be flashy with anything material. I'm fine living in a cardboard box. I mean I'm the type that plans on buying a couple shipping containers to make into a house instead of buying a house. If I could make a street legal car from ramshackle parts I'd do that too. There's another aspect that I highly relate to ohma on, fighting. Ever since I was a kid that only thing that really interested me was people fighting. At a young age I got into wrestling and did it till I got in highschool. Was lost and confused for a good while after that until I started obsessing over combat sports again as an adult. I'm at my most comfortable spending the whole day shadowboxing, practicing different kicks, etc. I've always been in fight or flight mode at all times, it just never turns off. Especially after a violent situation when I was 13 involving a neighbor and a knife, I've got PTSD that also keeps me in fight for flight mode. Even when I'm in a place of comfort my brain makes me see flashes of violence, I predict every possible weapon that could be used in the room, I simulate how I would defend myself in each situation. It wasn't until I got into sumo wrestling that I found people with the same level of obsession over combat sports. But even there when I was first starting out there was a complete difference in each of our aura's. My opponents would often feel like they were much more calm minded then I was, meanwhile I would always be filled with bloodlust, actively preparing for how I would continue to fight if something were to happen past the match being called. It wasn't until the last few months that I've actually been able to get comfortable and not view my teammates as potential life or death threats. I ain't trying to be edgy or inflate shit, I just legitimately take shit that seriously at all times because of how my brain is programmed. I used to want to get locked up in prison in the back of my head, I wanted to be put in a place where all those fears were founded and there was a life or death fight constantly happening. It wasn't until I got older and realized just how much prison is a place for those that couldn't adapt to society that I actually started following laws and not actively self sabotaging. The closest parallel I can find to the learning curve I've had in life is musashi in vagabond. Dude is animalistic and full of bloodthirstiness until he finds truly skilled opponents. That's been my story, becoming more civilized once I found people that were well adapted and also could kick my ass. When I received a slap to the chest that actually sent me flying in sumo, that was the moment I realized I'd found my place. Now that same slap doesn't sent me flying but it still feels like someone slammed a cylinder through my chest hitting all the way to my spine. That pain, being pushed beyond my limit to the point I'm screaming from the exertion, that is what living is to me.

@flintfrommother3gaming

10 ай бұрын

I aint reading allat 💀

I try to use clown iconography to let people know that I wanna spread joy, not sure how successful I've been at it but using only assets I've created or been involved with the creation of helps me feel like artistic and personal expression.

Another excellent video! This makes me want to chat more in the Discord server. I occasionally check on it but never really say anything as I've had some bad experiences on internet forums many years ago that sort of made me stop engaging with others online for fear of being hurt. But the people in the Leadhead community are so nice that I think it's time to reach out and form some new connections! Maybe see you around the server?

its always a good day when leadhead uploads :]

Two of my favorite KZreadrs doing a collaboration?! This gonna be good

really felt like a "EmpLemon" production , just hopeful instead of hopeless

yet another amazing video, keep up the great work!

Great job with the video . I love Robocop , that's the reason for my Profile Pic .

lovely video that went further than i thought it would

internet etiquette was something very important I learned in my worst years when I was younger it paved the way for many friendships and it all starts with a pfp

i loved this video and i love this channel xx

This is such a creative and important video! My profile pictures change drastically between all the accounts I have. Vibes are important on the internet.

Really enjoing those vids, keep it up!

I felt that this video was special, after watching it. That was a great video, Leadhead!

This video actually made me understand why I love the profile pictures I choose on my discord profile so much

this video was really beautiful to me. as much as i care about pfps i had never thought about them much

brand new subscriber!! thank u sm for this video

self-made pfps personally have a lot of flexibility, you can do anything you want with it, express yourself in your way, you don't need to spend an age looking for that one pfp, even if its a badly made profile picture, it communicates as much as a better made one, it shows you're trying to improve your skills. I guess this is my little thing over, thanks for reading.

@QuintonMurdock

Жыл бұрын

I used stuff I drew as a pfp because I liked being the creator of how people see me. That ended up spiraling to my using commissioned art of one drawing that ended up being what I wanted others to see me as

@zaiden_2006

Жыл бұрын

@@QuintonMurdock some parts do extend to commissions, theres still that personal touch

@QuintonMurdock

Жыл бұрын

@@zaiden_2006 something special when you can see something that you objectively know isn’t literally you and your brain will still go “Me!”

i can't believe these two colabed damn

I like that with this video in particular, when you look at the comments section you are more actively trying to get an idea of the people commenting based on their PFP.

Did anyone else go to the comments just so they could look at profile pictures while listening?

Again, a great video that gets too little attention. I hope you can continue this good work.

I've always been curious about this, it is a fascinating topic

My profile pics generally just reflect my interests or humor, same goes for my names. But for some reason the page wallpapers are usually the thing that have the most emotional value to me. I tend to keep everyone I know at arms length and I guess I do it with my pfp too.

It's interesting because when I first met Azeal and did an interview with Azeal, he wore a totally different avatar and stayed behind the camera. I really like his more 'comfy' approach.

@JessePinkman_69420

Жыл бұрын

Did his avatar have white hair instead of orange, cause in the sponsor of one of his videos his avatar had white hair, or was it something different, cause when I found his channel I wondered what his avatar was

your voice is comforting

I’ve had the same pfp on various sites for a while now, and I never thought much about it. The only noticeable thing is when about after a year of using it, the guy who drew it for me dmed me and said something along the lines of “wow, you’re still using it? I thought you’d find something better than it by now”, which made me consider changing it

@S1EEPLES5

Жыл бұрын

I've always had edgy pfps, shadow is just one of the many edges

Really liked this video, very well produced and very interesting! Really made me think about my online relationships

I have such a hard time changing pfps. This one, the anarchy symbol over the earth I've had for at least a year, originally putting it on when I got into anarchism & much more into environmentalism. I'm still into those things & constantly learning about then but the pfp itself I've wanted to change for months now, its just that nothing fits. & I know lots of the comments are on the pfp part but I want to say all the rest of the video was also really great, its probably going to become one I rewatch a lot

Like you said around the 8:42 mark, A couple of my friends will change their pfp constantly and its bizarre cause sometimes they'll have been using the same one for a while and then I get online oneday and I'm like who the heck is that, its even worse when they change their username too especially on steam cause its like I have to figure out whos who after some joke they thought of and a couple of them changed their usernames.

It's fascinating how profile pics, usernames, and online personas in general can take on a life of their own ,even influence our behavior

22:27 Tw*tter's role in human ascension? lol, lmao even.

@shrekrab

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TWITER!?!?!??!?!?!?!?

such a great video, loved it!!

I set my PFP on a whim a long time ago, and was aiming for "slightly confused old person taking his first selfie on accident." I never really thought about it since then, and honestly don't really look at other people's profile pictures while reading KZread comments. Now I'm thinking more about it and wondering if I should change the picture.

I've had my pfp for years now and the funny thing is that, when I dabbled with changing it for a couple of weeks, it didn't feel like me anymore lol. It's strange, but seeing how on most platforms you only have one image to show the world who you are at a glance, you really do grow accustomed to it. Even though I have stopped watching One Piece and Zoro is far from representing me as a person, this one section of a drawing I found online 5 years ago is what I'm used to seeing in the corner of my comments and nothing else is really in contention with it atm. It also doesn't help that my favorite characther in all of fiction (and one I can relate to quite deeply) is played by a real life person and I don't quite like the idea of having a photo of a real human being that isn't me in my pfp, so unless I draw something up it's not gonna get pfp status lol. Maybe one day, but not right now.

What a important work, thank you for this.

My pfp is a doodle I made when I was like 16 that's meant to show my self-percieved casual vibe as well as express my love for seeing death and macabre themes in an unafraid, optimistic outlook. My relationship with death has been a mixed one, but for the most part I have little fear but a lot of interest in grim topics. I won't say I'm not at all scared of death but I like to imagine those things aren't as bad as they sound

My pfp started off pretty simple when I started making videos mainly due to me not having a vision of what I should be like outside of copying other people that I used to watch, but with the years passing by I changed it because it felt generic and didn't feel like a genuine representation of what I wanted to be and here I am now with a pfp and avatar that I've grown accustomed to and have basically accepted as my online persona and what not

Another banger vid from our friendly neighbor Leadhead :)

A pfp is important, your username and pfp are the first thing people see and so picking one that fits you is difficult.

One of my new favorite KZread videos of all time, amazing work on this Additionally, I feel like I'm a lot more picky about my PFP than the average person. I've regularly had moments where I'll find an image, decide "that looks cool I'll make it my PFP", but a couple days later I'll change it. Before this I didn't understand why, but now I do: they weren't *me.* Someone else could use that PFP, but not me, because it doesn't really work for me the way it works for a different person. As of right now, I have 3 main PFPs I use: this one, my discord and twitter PFP (Power from Chainsaw Man), and my school PFP (Don-chan from taiko no tatsujin in a costume of Utsuho from Touhou). I think they do a pretty good job at representing me, but they all represent slightly different versions of me. It's difficult to explain, but I feel it. If I had to guess, it's probably just a matter of how I'm perceived on each platform. On KZread, moreso than anywhere else, the majority of people are just noise in the void. As such, I feel like having this PFP makes more sense here than anywhere else. The source of this PFP is uh... let's just say an interesting webcomic that's been an inside joke with me and a couple friends for a few years. It's something that makes people do a double take, and helps me stand out in the sea of people on this site. But on other sites, a PFP like this probably wouldn't be the best idea. My goal on those sites isn't to stand out, it's to just talk with people I'm close to. As such, I just go with the tried and true "popular anime girl you like", choosing Power because I just thought she fit with my vibes. And for the school PFP, my goal was just to find something goofy and lighthearted, hence why I went with the don-chan PFP.

Wasn't expecting to feel a generational disconect when I clicked on the video but I guess I'm just old enough that I had to learn all those social dinamics online after learning the ones from real life, so it's more like a second language to me, in the sense that it's similar to the slight emotional disconect I experience when comunicating in English, my actual second language that I learned mostly as an adult. Even tho I do the whole thing where someone's profile pic ends up being the mental image I use to think about them I never gave them much value as an indication of that person's personality, just their taste at most. Maybe I'm just still in that awkward middle point between seeing the internet as a fascinating sci-fi-esque technology that it was sold as when I was a kid and the fact of life that it is for those that were born after it had taken over the world. Still, this whole video is a fascinating look at those parts of the internet I don't engage with and as such am only partially aware about what happens there (VR chat, discord, ...twitter to be brutally honest), and also a frightening reminder that kids actually do frequent the weirder parts of the online world and they don't have the internalized eskepticism that adults have so they do fall for predators.

Yay nice video All this time I thought that the channel image was some sort of Rhino

In all seriousness, Azeal talking with combat veterans have helped me with my combat PTSD struggle. Something I don't really get through therapy and group talks.

My profile pic says everything about my personality.

Thank you for this video.

my forehead's fucking MASSIVE

I've been using this image of Eight Hearts from Travis Stikes Again for years. Same goes to my other online accounts. Reason I hardly change them is because it feels like I'd be throwing everything off, that I have to keep a consistency to my persona and identities, online and in the real world. Might just change some of them back because of this video. Thanks Penelope

Okay this profile picture is just to evoke those chill vibes for when I get into creation (lord knows when that is). On Discord, my pfp correlates with a show or a manga I'm into in recent times.

@aketsuuu

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I finally actually watched the video, and it just evoked so much out of me. Got me thinking of my online connections, and what my profile picture actually represents. It's such a nice video. Thanks Leadhead.

Hell yeah Leadhead and Azeal crossover time

I often put more of my expression in my username, My current slime pfp, or weevil pfp on discord come off as the cute sort. Which is completely contradictory to my name. My name gives the impression that I am foolish and goofy, Which is what most people should expect from me online, I won't take most things seriously. I guess you could say that my username is the persona that applies the way I would only act around my friends to most online interactions.

As someone who chose a name years ago and a profile even further back I don't feel it represents me but I know so many people online that I feel if I change it they wont recognize me so I stick with it because that's what people know me as even if I wish it was something else

Started watching this video with mild interest, finished watching it with hope and tears of joy

When it comes to pfps on discord and telegram i do change them often but mostly it is my fursona and i usually just change it show off new art. Which half the time is cute or just a fun one. The one i use on here my music jam headshot fits me perfectly cause i always have headphones on and am usually jamming to music :) or a audiobook. Anyway just catching this vid as im not on here as often. Take care everyone and i hope you all have amazing days no matter where you are

I love your channel 👍🏾

i can proudly say that i helped make the thumbnail. shoutout to bobby blitz for being in the thumbnail

@vepply

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You ain't gotta lie to kick it

@danka1167

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@@vepply goated song

A crossover I did not expect, but appreciated!

What a neat perspective on profile pictures. I just have the same one on all platforms because it’s my “brand”

@ServeraServera0

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Waffles waffles waffles

This entire time I thought your youtube pfp was one of the warframe guys lmao