hornworts
(?)Community Member
- Posted: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:52:12 +0000
Gaia is all about creating yourself and representing who you are through your avatar, signature, posts, and profile. However, a website can have its limitations, so sometimes the end product you've created isn't up to your satisfaction of who you really are. And when that happens, it's so much more crushing when you see someone else that pulls off their entire online presence so much better.
They've got their signature look they're known for, their posts are nice and always cause good discussion, their sig advertises links to their profitable other threads, and their profile looks professional. They look so good that you just sort of want to... be them. Or at least catch some of that great look they got going on. But of course, they are not you, so it could work out and it couldn't.
Has anyone else felt this way about some other users before? That their successes are so nice that you want in on that too?
It's happening to me now-- a certain user has avatars that seem so effortlessly great (HOW can they match the most obscure colors of the newest most expensive items to make looks that are both simple in form but complex and detail?!) that I had to try my hand at it-- with results that aren't just right. It doesn't help that they have plenty of art they did of their avatars in a style that I like.
Discuss:
-Have you ever liked a user's anything so much you copied them/tried to emulate their style?
-Is it bad to copy/try to copy someone else if you like what they're doing?
-When should you know to stop copying/emulating?
They've got their signature look they're known for, their posts are nice and always cause good discussion, their sig advertises links to their profitable other threads, and their profile looks professional. They look so good that you just sort of want to... be them. Or at least catch some of that great look they got going on. But of course, they are not you, so it could work out and it couldn't.
Has anyone else felt this way about some other users before? That their successes are so nice that you want in on that too?
It's happening to me now-- a certain user has avatars that seem so effortlessly great (HOW can they match the most obscure colors of the newest most expensive items to make looks that are both simple in form but complex and detail?!) that I had to try my hand at it-- with results that aren't just right. It doesn't help that they have plenty of art they did of their avatars in a style that I like.
Discuss:
-Have you ever liked a user's anything so much you copied them/tried to emulate their style?
-Is it bad to copy/try to copy someone else if you like what they're doing?
-When should you know to stop copying/emulating?