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Actual rationale for pure color pfps: 1. Real headshots for pfps are not the move. Twitter figured this out in the last 5 years. Your pfp is the most widely seen element of your online identity alongside your name/handle. Massive conversion drop even between that and your Twitter bio. Requires an intentional click. Not using your real face and legal first and last name on internet profiles is table stakes for privacy. 2. Cartoon animals and the like are fine but they over-influence people’s perception of you. Too much of even an accurate thing becomes inaccurate. If you have an ape and you have intellectual takes you are intellectual ape. Not just an intellectual. You’re as much a group as an individual. Even if the tribe you are associating with has no wide reputation or you are not associating with a tribe at all, these characters influence people’s perception more than they should. Color pfps are clean. No baggage, no assumptions. For better or worse. You’re judged on your content. That’s it.
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A critique that might seem reasonable at face value would be to argue that if base colors were to become popular as pfps, they would carry the same “group” reputation as I call out as overly influential above. But it’s different. A pure color is not cute or scary or representative of being a crypto og or anything like that. It’s just a color. There’s nothing to it. Some feminineness to a pink or maleness to a dark blue, sure, or warmness or coldness to certain colors, maybe, but that’s about it. Those are very high level things. You still have a basically blank state for your perception of those people. So to the extent that there is a group reputation, it would be like an “anti-group” group reputation. As in, the group reputation would be that it is a group of individuals. And with 16,777,216 colors, there can be so many people the group can’t have much tighter a reputation than that. Color pfps are pro pseudonymity, pro individuality, and pro being judged on what you say, not how you look.
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