How many people do you recognize just by looking at the avatar?

Pretty much all of them XD That’s why a sudden avatar change always confuzzles meh.

A lot of people. I was so confused yesterday and saw like, six YARNLADIES.

I know a lot of Jellies on sight. I was confused for a minute but figured it out pretty quick…I’m pretty smart.

Today, not many.

I recognize Jellies more for the quality and tone of their content than from a thumbnail.

None. I read what they say only.

All of them.

Probably about 50.

I can think of about a dozen that I know by the avatar (@janbb for example). We have had this kind of avatar madness before (remember when a large number of jellies changed their avatar to Astrochuck’s?!)

I am pretty much avatar dependent (as I learned today). I do like it when people take their own avatar and jazz it up in some way (@Jeruba adds hats, @astrochuck adds antennae, etc.), but I have only changed mine once (from my older dog to my younger dog) and may change back or go to a photo of the cat, but that’s about it. Some avatars SCREAM for alteration . . . (and sometimes the alteration is quite subtle when viewed as a small avatar in a thread!)

I use avatars when scrolling through lots of answers…i am confused by all the yarnlady’s though!!!

Just a few. My eyesight is too bad to be able to tell what most of the avatars are anyway. They’re far too small for me.

Exactly.

@Kayak8 – love your bunny ears!!!

I love the distinctive avatars, the stock ones are a little boring and unimaginative.

I read the names, I can barely see most of the avatars.

I have come to recognize quite a few of the avatars and get confused when they change.

@wilma Like when this happens?

I look at their post first, then their name & finally their avatar. So I guess my answer is none, I think!

Yes @queenie . ;-)

I recognize the ones that never change their avatar. I usually look at the name and the post first, both at the same time.

Probably 99%. I learn new avatars quickly, but usually I know who they are right away by the picture. The Yarnlady invasion messed me up pretty bad. Then again, I change my avatar all the time, now I kind of feel like I shouldn’t do that to people. ha.

I register the avatar. I know who has which avatar.

If it’s dark, then no because the majority of them are dark. If not, then yes.

I recognize about 85% of jellies by avatar.

Probably around 15. I look at the answer more than anything. There are probably 6 or 7 that I notice their avatar first. Seazen, filmfann, auggie, janbb, can’t even think of a couple more right now. Certain subjects I look for specific people. Like medical questions I look for the doctors. Everyone being yarnlady was a little jarring though.

I recognize a lot of jellies by their avatar.

At least 42.

@erichw1504 You forgot me. That makes it 43

@queenie Oops. My bad!

Nobody recognizes my avatar? I made it myself :)

@dxs Who are you?

@erichw1504 an enigma

@dxs Oh, hi An Enigma.

I think people would know me by the person in my avatar (me), but I do change my avatar pretty often…

But I definitely recognize a fair mount of people by their avatars who almost never change them…in those cases the avatar is like an extension of the username.

I usually have one of my dog’s head, for the time being and just for fun I am using her other end, heheheh.

@DominicX – that’s an interesting new one you have!

Everyone seems to have changed their avatars recently…it must be something in the air a lot of my facebook friends have changed their profile pics too!!

I pretty much only know by the avatar. Stop changing your pic, it’s confusing!

I’m a little late to this question but I’d have to say about 180, but that was back when I was very, very active on the site. Everyone who was in my Fluther before it was deleted (so I’d stop crashing the site every time I changed my avatar) was someone I interacted with a LOT. So I knew their avatars like it was their face.

But I can recognize about 20 people on here by there words, which I think is far more impressive. Jeruba and gailcalled deserve an honorable mention there.