On Twitter, whenever a member does not upload a photo or avatar, the graphic defaults to the above o_O image. For the first day of Flash Story's life, this was my avatar as well.
While I want to remain anonymous, I'd rather not default to the house graphic. It's one thing to be anonymous but quite another to be boring, so I sought to create my own avatar.
But what does o_O mean? At first, I assumed that it meant something like "Yet another anonymous poster," so based on that premise, I developed my own graphic based on the o_O symbol: different but the same idea of anonymity.
Dress up o_O, and they will come.
Then I did a little digging.
According to Wikipedia, o_O means "shocked or disturbed."
oOpS!
I didn't realize Twitter had so many shocked and disturbed users, but apparently that's the case.
Okay, so then the message my graphic sends out:
I'm disturbed and shocked, but it's all dressed up and fancy; moreover, the dash in the symbol reminds me of the iconic Monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. So it's all good.
If I were more graphically adept, I would be able to make that underscore float around in outer space--what fun that would be!
So that's the story of how my avatar came into existence.
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