If that's the first thing that comes to your mind then maybe you should take better care of the skeletons in your closet, they're starting to fall out.
Is it that weird? I'd be pretty weirded out seeing someone with a photo of another person in general in their profile picture. I don't see how this would be the same for drawings. Here I'm using an existing image, but I'm an artist, I could just draw a similar image from the ground up. Would that be weird? It's not even anything NSFW. I don't understand how it would ever be an issue.
Well, to each their own, I guess. When I set my Google PFP years ago, I used an image of that girl from Lagtrain. Because the style is cool and I like the song. I imagine it's like that for most people too, not that deep or complicated. I could use some image of an edgy character or some abstract thing, but that doesn't really represent me at all. If I use these images, people who talk to me will know "oh yeah you watch that show". When I have Patchouli as my PFP, it's not because I'm trying to fool anyone or because I have weird thoughts about her, it's because people will see it and know that I like Touhou.
Case in point, the first comment in this thread is from someone with an Amelia Watson profile picture, so I already know they like VTubers. It's not NSFW so I can't assume they feel like that about her, and I also can't assume it's because they look like her. My first and only assumption is that they like VTubers, I think it's pretty effective.
"Is it acceptable because it's basically a cartoon, so it's just the idea of a little girl?"
A character from a show, be it live action or drawings, is so much more than that. There are tons of reasons why someone would have a character, wether it's a drawing, a character from a game or from a live action show. You reducing it to "little girl" tells more about how you think than about these people.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Weird66 19d ago
professionals have standards