Avatars tells a story just as someone's search history or phone gallery might, its not just a first impression but a tone setter in conversation. Its like an always present emoticon at the end of your sentence that, in the current case of my avatar being a glorp cat comedically eating from a bag of unidentified chips, eases up the harshness of your words with a reminder that 'it ain't that serious.' Tone cannot easily be communicated through text so some personality is lost without an image, therefor I like to have a picture that can fill in that gap. Its just painting a picture for others, a quick way of telling you what kind of vibes you are in for when you message. Without words you can just kind of 'clock' the vibe/archetype of the person you are about to talk to if you know the 'language' of pictures
And for that reason I have chosen my current identity to be a glorp cat because on a spiritual level I be munching fr