Ethnicity & Avatars

LOL...RIGHT ON!







With this crowd around, who needs the Jester??



Thx for doin all the research, yep sounds about right.

...but what about ...roaches??? IT'S A CONSPIRACY

I second FD about older, & other av types but it's the individual users' choice, & most folks just wanna either blend in, be a "Super-Me!", or make a outlandish fictional av, which is understandable.

My av has pretty much always either been me "on steroids", or just the closest I could get to the RL me...even though I do have a "costume collection"...gotta love the Tooter & Grendel's roach avs

Maybe it's just me and my line of work, but I see plenty of homosexuality and it's quite commonplace. And most of them are not stereotypical "shemale" kinds that you speak of. Maybe my "effeminate" builds (as I have been told by others) just attract more of those kinds of people. But I see it so often, it's just normal.

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

Hmm.

Kinda seems like most of us still kinda have our lil' "cliques" and favorite spots we go, & usually get a skewed perception of the SL...community/demographic as a whole.

I bet if my av was an asian lookin' "grunge" style guy w/ the build of your average High School skater type kid, I would see more of the homosexuality & what not...I notice certain fetishes are mroe prevalent in certain subcults in SL...you sure as hell don't see too many "Bikers" w/ a Neko tail...or too many "Gangsta Vampires"...

Weird sociology in SL...I love it, lot more diverse than RL. All I gotta do is go sim-hoppin' anytime I start gettin bored & I find a whole new "side" to the community.

Sometimes the groups get a lil' stagnant or whatever, but for the most part, the RL phenomenon of subcultures & cultures splittin' into smaller pieces & "cross-pollination" runs rampant a lot more, w/ all the anonymity.

One example would be ...well I dunno if this is "new", but the fact that every time I go shoppin now, I find avs w/ prim boobs as big as my avs' whole torso, who usually say they say bi males in the profile. ...never saw that before last month...I gotta remind myself every once in a while ta go outside my "neighborhood" to see what's goin on around the Grid.


We got the same problem in Chicago to an extent, there's still a lotta folks here who live just about thier whole life in a 10-20 block radius, even w/ all the commuters & tourists.



THANK YOU.

/me takes a computer break <_< >_>

If we ever finally get additional avatar texture layers it would be easy to do things like the breast shadows as a separate layer so it would be easy for people to mix and match the components that work best for their particular shape. Unfortunately, as the system works now, for every variation you have to assemble a whole new skin, so if you have a skin with say 20 makeups available and wanted to add optional shading for smaller breasts, that's 20 more skins to do instead of just one overlay. Add in more options like a few different eyebrow colors and the numbers expand exponentially. It just gets to be too much work so you aim for what you think will please the largest number of people.

Oh, I've seen those ginormous prim boobs. On avas. I have no idea where to get them ... nor do I want to. Like I said before, what the heck is wrong with a bitty booby?

The day I arrived in SL (November 2004) I realised I could make my own hair texture. This was before prim hair of course. I hopped over to photoshop, took a hair texture I had made for a 3d model I had made years before, coloured it a cheerful red and imported it.

At this time hardly anyone had red hair. People often commented on my interesting look. I coupled the hair with very pale skin and bright green eyes.

Nearly four years on and I still mainly wear my 'trademark' red hair - though now it is beautiful prim styles from various makers. My skin has darkened a little - I don't look so ill now.

But often Elgyfu is black. NOT African-American, as people have insisted on trying to catogorise me, but African, probably Nigerian (I have very distant Nigerian ancestry). I adore darker skins, I have always thought that dark skinned women are so beautiful and smooth looking.

Many of you may know my 'Pharoah' look. As I sell a lot of Egyptian artifacts, I do love to dress the part when working on that island. Ahh, rich dark skin, bright eye make-up and those luscious clothes! Yummy

I also have a treasured Indian skin, which I wear with my beautiful collection of saris.

But what I would love is a quality Japanese skin - not geisha, I have them, but a soft coloured skin, with that unique look of a Japanese girl. Anyone know where I can get one?

For me, SL is a chance to be different to my real self. Here I can be that ebony skinned beauty with long raven hair and bottom-less eyes. Or the Indian princess that I dreamed of being as a child. Or the pale skinned Celtic lass with the long red hair and green eyes, of course. Oh, and don't forget the days I am goth, or neko, or vampire, or a dragon or a tiny weasel................ hehe

Each race has its own beauty. I want to look at my avatar and see the characters who inhabit my imagination - the ladies I would love to be myself.

In real life I am still a tubby, pale, 40 year old English woman, hehe. But I know that inside I am a whole world of beautiful princesses just dying to get out. And here, in SL - they do!!!

LMAO

Very "punny" Oryx




I hear it's this GTA soundin' store "IMPLANT NATION", or somethin like that...but I read about that 1st time on the forums about ...maybe a year & a half ago...ain't really seen 'em, now all of a sudden it's like I got a giant boob mafia followin me around or somethin, LOL

Hmm...giant boob mafia...


BRB AFK

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Well, hello sailor!

I have always been Asian
I used a combination of Cherry Tokyos shapes and skins by Nyte n day. I have to say out all Asains in sl I think my avator is Unmistakably asian looking.

you just have to really play with putting the right skin on the right shape.

Some of you act like it's something new, something rare to see other races in sl besides your own. You're always in the same rut. You never venture into other places, other clubs and venues of other races like blacks, Latinos and others.

Many of you don't ever visit these places because you're intimidated although you'll never admit it publicly. Then you come here acting like you're amazed you saw another race being it's something very rare and unseen in sl.

Please. That doesn't play anymore.

Ricky .. Are you referring to the recent posters? --

Or the ones you already corrected a YEAR AGO when this thread was made?

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I'm not sure the recent posters have said much along the lines you seem to accuse them of.

Not all black people are from America, that just makes them Africans I suppose, but there are white people in Africa. so only real word for them are black, color.

Didn't check date but it's ok, you know I don't mind sticking it whether its today or yesterday.

LOL or telling people off *AGAIN* for what they said a year ago

Personally I'm surprised there aren't many North African/Arabian skins seeing how we are so "popular" in the media.

There are actually a great many of the deep tan/brown skins around. Perhaps the skinners don't like to label them as belonging to a particular race. IMHO, it's not the color of the skin that defines race on an avatar... face shape is much more influential.

Yes. We're intimidated by all the Big Assed women you claim hang out there

Well besides how the people look, also what defines a persons ethnicity is the way they act and their beliefs based on tradition, although I do agree with you Oryx on your comment.

*smile*

I was just talking about the physical appearance of the avatar itself. Absolutely do actions and beliefs define ethnicity.

I have nothing to add to this conversation.

Why did you put that dutch in his mouth? Don't you think somethings wrong there?