@Dark_man123: I remember the first online community I ever really got into was the FUNiMation Central forums. I had just turned 13 and was able to sign up for an account, and quickly became invested in the community of the forums around that time.
They had tons of characters from across several different animes that you could use as your avatar, so it wasn't common to see multiple active members with the same icon, the exception being like Goku and Vegeta. Well, I remember I chose Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho as my avatar there, and I chose it because I felt like that was honestly one of the characters closest to me personality-wise.
Other people who visited the forums, I would kind of associate their personality with the icon they had. This one girl had an Android 17 icon and was obsessed with that character, and acted moody a lot. But we talked for a while and eventually the conversation came up about how she looked like Chi Chi (Goku's wife) and I said I thought Chi Chi was a pretty character, and she changed her icon to Chi Chi for a while out of appreciation of that, so that was kinda cool.
Another girl I knew there used Mai from the original Dragon Ball as her avatar... And she looked pretty much just like her, it was kind of uncanny.
It occurs to me that I don't remember the guys' icons as well as the chicks'.
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